How to Use Different Margins Within the Same Document

You can create basic and complex documents using a word processing program.

You can set different page margins within the same document using Microsoft Word. Achieve this by editing the margins for different sections of your document. If you select text and create a different margin for it, the selected text will have page breaks before and after the selection. You will also create a page break using the "this point forward" method.

Instructions

1. Open Microsoft Word and click the "Page Layout" tab at the top of the document.

2. Click the start point with your mouse to place your cursor at the point where you want the margins to change. Alternatively, you may want to select the text you want to have different margins. Go to the start point of the first text for which you want to define margins. While holding down the left mouse button, drag the mouse across all the text you want to define margins for and release the mouse button.

3. Click "Margins" in the "Page Layout" tab and select "Custom layout" from the bottom of the pull-down menu to open the "Page Setup" dialog box.

4. Click the "Margins" tab. In the "Preview section of the "Margins" tab, click the down arrow and select "This point forward" if you have positioned your cursor where you want the margin change to start or "Selected text" if you have selected text.

5. Use the up and down arrows next to "Top," "Bottom," "Left" and "Right" to adjust the margins. Click the "OK" button at the bottom of the "Page Setup" dialog box when you are done to close the "Page Setup" dialog box and apply the new margin settings.

References

• Microsoft.com: Change or Set Page Margins

Resources

• Microsoft.com: Word Help and How-to