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#Choose Format > Page > Page, and adjust the margins as desired.
 
#Choose Format > Page > Page, and adjust the margins as desired.
 
#Choose File > Templates > Save, give your new template a name, and click OK to save it.
 
#Choose File > Templates > Save, give your new template a name, and click OK to save it.
#Choose File > Templates > Organize, browse to your new template, and click Commands > Set As Default Template.
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#Choose File > Templates > Organize.  In Template Management, right-click on "My Templates"
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#Choose Import Template >  Open the new template above to add it. 
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#After it appears under "My Templates", right-click on it or click Commands > Set As Default Template.
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#Click Close to complete.  Close your template file.
  
 
In future, when you create a new text document it will have the margins you chose.
 
In future, when you create a new text document it will have the margins you chose.

Revision as of 15:49, 6 February 2010


How can I change the default Page Style margins, so that when I start a new document the margins will be 1 inch?


  1. Open a new text document.
  2. Choose Format > Page > Page, and adjust the margins as desired.
  3. Choose File > Templates > Save, give your new template a name, and click OK to save it.
  4. Choose File > Templates > Organize. In Template Management, right-click on "My Templates"
  5. Choose Import Template > Open the new template above to add it.
  6. After it appears under "My Templates", right-click on it or click Commands > Set As Default Template.
  7. Click Close to complete. Close your template file.

In future, when you create a new text document it will have the margins you chose.

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