How to Get an Extra 110 Sheets of Printer Paper

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How to Get an Extra 110 Sheets of Printer Paper

Jul 24th, 2007 Filed Under: Geek Speak, Productivity

Most word processors come pre-set for business-type documents with wide, formal margins. But when printing every-day-stuff from your computer, you can decrease your margins, and gain several square inches of printing space. In fact, if you are printing full sheets, it’s like getting an extra 110 sheets per ream!

How to Change Your Margins

The formal formatting generally uses one inch top and bottom margins and one and a quarter inch left and right margins. When I’m printing non-official stuff, I like to use the maximum printing space per sheet – which is a half inch on many printers. To change your margins, click File > Page Setup. You should see a pop-up window with your current settings. Change the margin setting for the Top, Bottom, Left, and Right to .50 and click OK.

Customize Word Processor Template

You now have maximum printing real estate per page!

Of course, you could just change the margin settings each time you start a new document, but that would be a waste of time. If you only do formal writing occasionally, you should consider saving the new settings to your default template. This is so easy to do. In fact, while you’re at it, go ahead and change the font style, size, and color to something you enjoy more.

Read my step-by-step guide on How to Customize Your Word Processor’s Default Template.

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