Setting and Changing Print Margins

Margins define the white boundary area of the page and provide a visual border around your printed data. Changing a worksheet’s margins increases or decreases the amount of data displayed on a page, which allows you to make room for one last column of data, to divide your columns evenly between two pages, or to allow for enough room at one edge for the page to be bound in a report or three-ring binder. In Print Preview mode, margins appear as dark gray lines, which you can drag to the desired position.

Set Page Margins

  1. Click the Page Layout tab.

  2. Click Margins and either click the desired margin settings or click Custom Margins.

  3. If you selected Custom Margins, type new values for the worksheet’s margins in the Top, Bottom, Left, and Right boxes.

  4. Click OK.

    Set Page Margins

    Try This!

    Try This!

    Select multiple worksheets by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking the sheet tabs, click the Page Layout tab, click Margins, and then click Custom Margins. Type 0.75 in the Top, Bottom, Left, and Right boxes, and then click OK. All of the selected worksheets’ margins will be changed to three-quarters of an inch.

Adjust Page Margins in Print Preview

  1. Click the Microsoft Office button.

  2. Click the Print item’s arrow.

  3. Click Print Preview.

  4. If necessary, select the Show Margins check box to display the margin lines.

  5. Hover the mouse pointer over one of the gray lines until the mouse pointer becomes a two-headed arrow. Drag the line until the margin is set the way you want.

  6. Click Close Print Preview.

    Adjust Page Margins in Print Preview
    Adjust Page Margins in Print Preview

    Caution

    Caution

    In Print Preview mode, it’s sometimes difficult to distinguish between margins and header or footer lines. Be sure to keep track of which is which.

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