- Choosing the Right Font
- Emphasizing Important Text
- Changing Margins by Using Guidelines
- Justifying Text
- Using QuickBullets
- Inserting Special Characters
- Getting a Word Count
- Troubleshooting
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Changing Margins by Using Guidelines
Believe it or not, you can make your document easier to read by adjusting the margins. A wider margin creates more whitespace around the text and limits the number of words on a line. The shorter the line, the less likely the reader is to lose her place.
On the other hand, if you're trying to keep the number of pages down, you might want to make the margins smaller so you can fit more on a page. For example, if you plan to use headers and footers, you might want to cut the top and bottom margins down to 1/2 inch. By default, the margins are set to 1 inch on all sides (see Table 3.1 later in this chapter).
Table 3.1. QuickBullet Symbols
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Press This |
To Get This |
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+ then Tab |
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^ then Tab |
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o or * then Tab |
• |
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O then Tab |
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> then Tab |
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— then Tab |
— |
To adjust the margins, position the mouse pointer over a guideline and wait until the pointer changes into a double arrow. Click and drag the guideline. As you click and drag, you'll see a dotted guideline and a bubble. The dotted guideline shows you where the new margin will be, and the bubble tells you what the new margin will be (in inches) when you release the mouse button (see Figure 3.5).
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Figure 3.5 Clicking and dragging guidelines is the fastest way to adjust the margins. The dotted guideline and bubble show you what the new margins will be when you release the mouse button.
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If you accidentally drag a margin guideline and end up with wacky margins, see "Bad Dragging" in the Troubleshooting section at the end of this chapter.