
To learn about your minimum margin settings, check the printer manual. Minimum margin settings depend on your printer, printer driver, and paper size. If you ignore the message, Word will display another message asking whether you want to continue. Click Fix to automatically increase the margin width. If you try to set margins that are too narrow, Microsoft Word displays the message One or more margins are set outside the printable area of the page. Most printers require a minimum width for margin settings. Word inserts a single, center book foldĪfter you set up a document as a booklet, work with it just as you would any document to insert text, graphics, and other visual elements. Use the same option to create a menu, invitation, event program, or any other type of document with a single center fold.ġ. Using the Book fold option in the Page Setup dialog box, you can create a booklet. Note: You can set gutter margins for a document that has mirror margins if the document needs extra space for binding. To learn about your minimum settings, check your printer manual. Minimum margin settings for printing depend on your printer, printer driver, and paper size. If you ignore the message, Word will display another message asking whether you want to continue. If your settings are too narrow, Microsoft Word displays the message One or more margins are set outside the printable area of the page. Microsoft Word automatically inserts section breaks before and after the text with new margin settings. In the Apply to box, click Selected text. In the Page Setup dialog box, enter new values for the margins.Ĭhange the margins for only a section of a document by selecting the text and entering the new margins in the Page Setup dialog box. Use the same headers and footers from one page to the next: Click in a corner of the document (so nothing is selected), click in the toolbar, then select, select the “Show header and footer” checkbox (if it isn’t already selected), then select the “Match previous page” checkbox.On the Page Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, choose Margins and the Margins gallery appears.Īt the bottom of the Margins gallery, choose Custom Margins. Show or hide the header and footer for a single page: Click in a corner of the document (so nothing is selected), click in the toolbar, then select or deselect the “Show header and footer” checkbox to show or hide the header and footer on this page. Set the distance from the top and bottom page margins: Click the arrows or enter values in the Top and Bottom fields (below the Header and Footer checkboxes). Use different headers and footers for left and right pages: If your document uses facing pages and you want to enter different information on left and right pages, select the “Left and right pages are different” checkbox. To format headers and footers, do any of the following: In this case, click in the toolbar and choose Page Number. Note: If you already added a page number on another page, you don’t see the Insert Page Number pop-up menu. Try putting text in the header and the page number in the footer, for example, to avoid cutting off the text.

However, if there is text or a page number already in one of the fields, the original field limits apply. If the text in your header or footer is too long to fit in a field, the field adjusts to allow for the longer text. If a button is dimmed, that format can’t be applied to the selected text. To change the font, font size, color, and alignment of header and footer text, select the text, then use the controls in the Format sidebar. Left and right pages are different: When this checkbox is selected in a document using facing pages, the headers and footers on left and right pages can be different. Deselect this checkbox if you want to use different headers and footers for this section. Match previous section: Use the same headers and footers from one section to the next. If the document has more than one section, the setting applies only to the first page of this section. Hide on first page of section: Hide the header or footer on the first page. To set header or footer behavior for each section, click the Section tab at the top of the Document sidebar, then choose any of the following:

To set the distance from the top and bottom page margins, click in the toolbar, click the Document tab at the top of the sidebar, then click the arrows or enter values in the Top and Bottom fields (below the Header and Footer checkboxes). Instead, click in the toolbar and choose Page Number. Note: If you already added page numbers in another section, you don’t see the Insert Page Number pop-up menu.
