different margins without section breaks

[Lloyd]

Does anyone know if it's possible to format a page with
different page margins from a previous page without
inserting a section break. WordPerfect does this easily,
but I haven't been able to find a way to do this in
Word.

The reason why I don't want to use a section break is
that I'm designing a letter template with a logo on the
first page and heavily indented left margins on that
first page, but with regular margins on all subsequent
pages, and I don't want users to have to manually insert
a section break to begin the 2nd page. The section break
would interfere with naturally flowing text onto the next
page.

Thanks for any feedback on this.

Lloyd

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Lloyd

Word just doesn't work like that, I'm afraid. Margins are a property of a section, so if you want to change margins, you have to
have a new section.

But ... there are two ways around that.

If you just need to indent (or outdent) some paragraphs, format the paragraphs either directly (Format > Paragraph) or through their
style (Format > Styles > Modify > Format > Paragraph). In either case, a positive indent moves text in, and a negative indent moves
text out.

But for your specific need for how to create a letterhead, see http://home.zebra.net/~sbarnhill/Letterhead.htm.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia

 

[Linda]

Hello Lloyd

You could try the following - not sure if this is exactly
what you want.

Linda


On a new doc type in enough text to go onto two pages

Go to the top of doc - select Headers/Footers
from the toolbar - select the Page setup option
Then select Different first page
Then set the margins to what you want

Then from the toolbar move to the next header/footer
Select page setup - then change the margins From this
point forward then take off Same as previous then type in
any text for the heading

Then you delete the text in the document - the second page
will disappear - but as soon as you enter text and it goes
onto a second page the header will reappear.

This can then be saved as a template.