[CyberTaz]

I agree with both Graham & Dean - reducing margins will do nothing for the
environment but will make your docs less professional.

If concerned about the environment the best solution is to reduce the
verbiage by writing more concisely, thereby conserving *ink/toner* as well
as minimizing the amount of paper involved.

Regards |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac


On 12/20/07 8:37 AM, in article
, "DeanH"
wrote:

I total agree with Graham, the smallest margin that I work with is 2.54cm
(1") and that is at a push.
If you do want to save paper, don't bother with small margin, print
double-sided (duplex) that will save much more paper than an extra centimetre
off the margin will ever do.
Beware though, when duplexing you may need a slightly larger space for the
central margins, so you may not want to do that.
DeanH

"Mike Parker" wrote:

I never liked the idea of 3cm margins anyway, but now consider this. If you
make your margins 1.5-2cm instead of the default 3.17, how many trees would
you save? People don't normally mess with page setup and most printers
nowadays can print almost to the edge of the paper, so why not save millions
of sheets of paper and reduce the huge margins. If you release a patch called
an "environmental update", imagine what positive publicity that would bring
to Microsoft?

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