Increasing margins for whole of document

[excel_hari]

Hi,

I want to increase the top and bottom margin for every page in my
document. If I hover my mouse over the left ruler area where white part
just starts and once my mouse changes to 2 sided arrow I stretch it up.

Strangely this increase in margin gets applied to only some of the
pages in my document and doesnt work for all pages. Why is it so? (Same
issue with bottom margin).

I have tried to do this from Page Setup -- Margins -- Apply to Whole
document, but still after doing Ok, see that margin for all pages dont
get adjusted. Strangely If I go back to Page setup option again, I see
that "Apply to" drop down" doesnt have Whole document selected (rather
"This section" is selected)

regards,
HP
India

 

[Luc]

HP,
You probably have different sections in your document. Just press Ctrl+end
and look at the bottom of your screen you will see an indication of how many
sections you have next to Se in the status bar.
Now when you put your cursor in your text Word will apply the margins change
only to the section your cursor resides in. If the document has but one
section you have no problem as it will be applied to all pages of that
section.
If you have more sections, and want to apply the margins change to all pages
of the document you should use File - Page SetUp and choose 'Whole document'
in the apply to section.

If you select the whole text (CTRL+A) or select a few sections first you
will have the option in the list to apply the change to only the selected
sections.

 

[Stefan Blom]

By default, in a document with multiple sections, Word displays "This
section" in the "Apply to" box in the Page Setup dialog box. If
changing this setting to "Whole document", modifying the margins, and
clicking OK does not work, you could try changing the margins
separately for each section.

Another thing to consider: Are you sure that you haven't inadvertently
added an indent to some paragraphs of text?

 

[excel_hari]

Luc and Stefan,

Thanks for your responses. I wil try your suggestions when I have the
document in front of me. Till then, I have some extremely naive doubts.


In the parlance of Word what is considered to be a section?

(I think I do understand as to what a paragraph is!!?! - if 2 lines in
a document are seperated by pressing Enter then these 2 lines are part
of different paragraphs. Is my understanding correct? Any authoritative
definiton of Paragraph out there?)

regards,
HP
India

 

[Stefan Blom]

Each Word document consists of at least one section. To add a section,
you can insert a section break manually (Insert | Break, choose an
option at "Section break types", click OK). Alternatively, section
breaks can be added by Word, for example, when you select part of a
document and change the number of columns for it. For more
information, see:

Working with sections
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/WorkWithSections.htm