Top and bottom margins in word not showing năm 2024

Change the margins between text and the edge of a text box or shape

In the first video of this series, we set a custom margin.

I am going to show you how to make that margins stick, by making it the Default Margin in Word.

And how we do that? As we go to the PAGE LAYOUT tab, and over on the left, we click Margins, and then we click Custom Margins... down at the bottom.

Now, here we have our 2.5-inch margin here on the right, and that's what we want to stick to, for only documents.

So we’ll go down to the lower left here and click Set As Default.

Word asks us: "Do you want to change the default settings for page setup?" Yes, I do. I do want to change the default settings for all new documents going forward. So I’ll click Yes. And now let’s test this out.

We’ll go to the FILE tab. We’ll click New, and then, we'll double-click Blank document.

And you can see over on the right, here for our ruler, we have a gray area that indicates that 2.5-inch margin.

And it’s even more apparent when I paste some text. You can see, I have this wide 2.5-inch margin, here on the right.

Rodney notes that when he opens a new document in Word the on-screen display of the pages shows the correct left and right margins, but not the correct top and bottom margins. The "pages" of paper shown on-screen in Print Layout view show no top and bottom margin at all. Rodney is wondering why this is happening.

What Rodney is seeing is actually a feature of Word that hides white space (including headers and footers) at the top and bottom of a page. This feature provides a way to display more real information on the screen and is particularly useful if you have a document that uses a lot of white space at the top and bottom of the page.

If you move the mouse pointer to the top or bottom border of the on-screen page representation, you'll notice that it changes to a small icon that has two arrows facing each other vertically. If you double-click on the mouse when the pointer is in this condition, Word toggles the display of the top and bottom white space.

If you prefer, you can also change the settings by using Word's dialog boxes:

  1. Display the Word Options dialog box. (In Word 2007 click the Office button and then click Word Options. In Word 2010 or later versions, display the File tab of the ribbon and then click Options.)
  2. At the left side of the dialog box, click Display. (See Figure 1.)

Top and bottom margins in word not showing năm 2024

Figure 1. The Display options of the Word Options dialog box.

  1. Set or clear the Show White Space between Pages in Print Layout View checkbox, as desired.
  2. Click OK

WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. (Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world.) This tip (13149) applies to Microsoft Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Word in Microsoft 365. You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Word here: Missing Top and Bottom Margins.

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