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How to add more than 1 custom margin setting word 2007
Hi there all,
I am using word 2007 and want to add a number of custom margin settings, or change the 'microsoft default' margin settings. Basically, I have 3 or 4 page layouts (with different margins) that i use for work, and none of them are the same as any of the microsoft standard margin settings. At the moment, every time i need to change the margin, i need to type the settings in manually. What i want to do is save my 4 settings and add them to the 5 existing 'standard' options, or failing that, change the 5 existing microsoft settings to my own ones. Is there any way to do this? Many thanks! |
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I don't think the Margins gallery will allow for more than one "Last Custom
Margins" selection, but you can certainly create templates for your frequently used margin settings and apply them by creating new documents based on those templates. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm for the basic principles. Note that when you save a template in Word 2007, Word doesn't default the save location to the Templates folder; you have to use the Trusted Templates shortcut on the Places Bar to choose that folder. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Cocksy Boy" wrote in message ... Hi there all, I am using word 2007 and want to add a number of custom margin settings, or change the 'microsoft default' margin settings. Basically, I have 3 or 4 page layouts (with different margins) that i use for work, and none of them are the same as any of the microsoft standard margin settings. At the moment, every time i need to change the margin, i need to type the settings in manually. What i want to do is save my 4 settings and add them to the 5 existing 'standard' options, or failing that, change the 5 existing microsoft settings to my own ones. Is there any way to do this? Many thanks! |
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Cocksy Boy,
Are the different margin settings for different documents or the same document? If they are for different documents, you should setup a template for each type of margin. Then everytime you create a new document based on that template your margins will be set as you want them. For: How to Create a Word Template, see: http://word.mvps.org/fAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm If you're wanting to set different sections of a document with different margins, you can do this too, but I would suggest exploring other options first. But that depends on why you need to have different margins. Perhaps you could give us a list of the margin setting you need and a brief discription telling us why you needed the different margin settings. Steven Craig Miller "Cocksy Boy" wrote: Hi there all, I am using word 2007 and want to add a number of custom margin settings, or change the 'microsoft default' margin settings. Basically, I have 3 or 4 page layouts (with different margins) that i use for work, and none of them are the same as any of the microsoft standard margin settings. At the moment, every time i need to change the margin, i need to type the settings in manually. What i want to do is save my 4 settings and add them to the 5 existing 'standard' options, or failing that, change the 5 existing microsoft settings to my own ones. Is there any way to do this? Many thanks! |
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Hi Steven & Suzanne,
I think the templates could be a good method of getting round this for about half of the time, the other half of the time, the different margins are required in the same document. Basically, some pages have to have the smallest margin possible (as defined by our printer, which is nearly borderless) so that technical drawings can fill the piece of paper at the largest size possible. The majority of the pages require a 2cm margin all round, and some other specific pages require a 1cm margin all round, some require 2cm at the top / bottom, & 1cm at the side, and there are a couple of other simlar sizes I can't remember off the top of my head. I can't really go into much more detail than that - sorry! Is the alternative method a lot more difficult to implement? Many TIA! "StevenM" wrote: Cocksy Boy, Are the different margin settings for different documents or the same document? If they are for different documents, you should setup a template for each type of margin. Then everytime you create a new document based on that template your margins will be set as you want them. For: How to Create a Word Template, see: http://word.mvps.org/fAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm If you're wanting to set different sections of a document with different margins, you can do this too, but I would suggest exploring other options first. But that depends on why you need to have different margins. Perhaps you could give us a list of the margin setting you need and a brief discription telling us why you needed the different margin settings. Steven Craig Miller "Cocksy Boy" wrote: Hi there all, I am using word 2007 and want to add a number of custom margin settings, or change the 'microsoft default' margin settings. Basically, I have 3 or 4 page layouts (with different margins) that i use for work, and none of them are the same as any of the microsoft standard margin settings. At the moment, every time i need to change the margin, i need to type the settings in manually. What i want to do is save my 4 settings and add them to the 5 existing 'standard' options, or failing that, change the 5 existing microsoft settings to my own ones. Is there any way to do this? Many thanks! |
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An idea you might experiment with is this: it is possible to transfer
section formatting (which includes page orientation and margins) by copying and pasting a section break. It should therefore be theoretically possible to save a section break as an AutoText entry. Alternatively, you could record a macro to set the required margins. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Cocksy Boy" wrote in message ... Hi Steven & Suzanne, I think the templates could be a good method of getting round this for about half of the time, the other half of the time, the different margins are required in the same document. Basically, some pages have to have the smallest margin possible (as defined by our printer, which is nearly borderless) so that technical drawings can fill the piece of paper at the largest size possible. The majority of the pages require a 2cm margin all round, and some other specific pages require a 1cm margin all round, some require 2cm at the top / bottom, & 1cm at the side, and there are a couple of other simlar sizes I can't remember off the top of my head. I can't really go into much more detail than that - sorry! Is the alternative method a lot more difficult to implement? Many TIA! "StevenM" wrote: Cocksy Boy, Are the different margin settings for different documents or the same document? If they are for different documents, you should setup a template for each type of margin. Then everytime you create a new document based on that template your margins will be set as you want them. For: How to Create a Word Template, see: http://word.mvps.org/fAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm If you're wanting to set different sections of a document with different margins, you can do this too, but I would suggest exploring other options first. But that depends on why you need to have different margins. Perhaps you could give us a list of the margin setting you need and a brief discription telling us why you needed the different margin settings. Steven Craig Miller "Cocksy Boy" wrote: Hi there all, I am using word 2007 and want to add a number of custom margin settings, or change the 'microsoft default' margin settings. Basically, I have 3 or 4 page layouts (with different margins) that i use for work, and none of them are the same as any of the microsoft standard margin settings. At the moment, every time i need to change the margin, i need to type the settings in manually. What i want to do is save my 4 settings and add them to the 5 existing 'standard' options, or failing that, change the 5 existing microsoft settings to my own ones. Is there any way to do this? Many thanks! |
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I haven't tried the copy & paste methd, but may do that. I quite like the
idea of a macro to change the margins - not sure if the work PCs will allow the use of Macros, but I'll have a look on monday. These are all good ideas, but it seems to me that it should be a setting that would allow these paramters to be changed by the user, without some 'work-around'. I'm sure you could save a bunch of custom margins settings in previous versions of word - but I may be wrong there!! What was going to be your suggestion Steven? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: An idea you might experiment with is this: it is possible to transfer section formatting (which includes page orientation and margins) by copying and pasting a section break. It should therefore be theoretically possible to save a section break as an AutoText entry. Alternatively, you could record a macro to set the required margins. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Cocksy Boy" wrote in message ... Hi Steven & Suzanne, I think the templates could be a good method of getting round this for about half of the time, the other half of the time, the different margins are required in the same document. Basically, some pages have to have the smallest margin possible (as defined by our printer, which is nearly borderless) so that technical drawings can fill the piece of paper at the largest size possible. The majority of the pages require a 2cm margin all round, and some other specific pages require a 1cm margin all round, some require 2cm at the top / bottom, & 1cm at the side, and there are a couple of other simlar sizes I can't remember off the top of my head. I can't really go into much more detail than that - sorry! Is the alternative method a lot more difficult to implement? Many TIA! "StevenM" wrote: Cocksy Boy, Are the different margin settings for different documents or the same document? If they are for different documents, you should setup a template for each type of margin. Then everytime you create a new document based on that template your margins will be set as you want them. For: How to Create a Word Template, see: http://word.mvps.org/fAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm If you're wanting to set different sections of a document with different margins, you can do this too, but I would suggest exploring other options first. But that depends on why you need to have different margins. Perhaps you could give us a list of the margin setting you need and a brief discription telling us why you needed the different margin settings. Steven Craig Miller "Cocksy Boy" wrote: Hi there all, I am using word 2007 and want to add a number of custom margin settings, or change the 'microsoft default' margin settings. Basically, I have 3 or 4 page layouts (with different margins) that i use for work, and none of them are the same as any of the microsoft standard margin settings. At the moment, every time i need to change the margin, i need to type the settings in manually. What i want to do is save my 4 settings and add them to the 5 existing 'standard' options, or failing that, change the 5 existing microsoft settings to my own ones. Is there any way to do this? Many thanks! |
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Actually, previous versions of Word didn't have anything remotely comparable
to the Margins gallery in Word 2007, which is completely new. The only way to get different margins was either to change them in Page Setup or start with a different template. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Cocksy Boy" wrote in message ... I haven't tried the copy & paste methd, but may do that. I quite like the idea of a macro to change the margins - not sure if the work PCs will allow the use of Macros, but I'll have a look on monday. These are all good ideas, but it seems to me that it should be a setting that would allow these paramters to be changed by the user, without some 'work-around'. I'm sure you could save a bunch of custom margins settings in previous versions of word - but I may be wrong there!! What was going to be your suggestion Steven? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: An idea you might experiment with is this: it is possible to transfer section formatting (which includes page orientation and margins) by copying and pasting a section break. It should therefore be theoretically possible to save a section break as an AutoText entry. Alternatively, you could record a macro to set the required margins. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Cocksy Boy" wrote in message ... Hi Steven & Suzanne, I think the templates could be a good method of getting round this for about half of the time, the other half of the time, the different margins are required in the same document. Basically, some pages have to have the smallest margin possible (as defined by our printer, which is nearly borderless) so that technical drawings can fill the piece of paper at the largest size possible. The majority of the pages require a 2cm margin all round, and some other specific pages require a 1cm margin all round, some require 2cm at the top / bottom, & 1cm at the side, and there are a couple of other simlar sizes I can't remember off the top of my head. I can't really go into much more detail than that - sorry! Is the alternative method a lot more difficult to implement? Many TIA! "StevenM" wrote: Cocksy Boy, Are the different margin settings for different documents or the same document? If they are for different documents, you should setup a template for each type of margin. Then everytime you create a new document based on that template your margins will be set as you want them. For: How to Create a Word Template, see: http://word.mvps.org/fAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm If you're wanting to set different sections of a document with different margins, you can do this too, but I would suggest exploring other options first. But that depends on why you need to have different margins. Perhaps you could give us a list of the margin setting you need and a brief discription telling us why you needed the different margin settings. Steven Craig Miller "Cocksy Boy" wrote: Hi there all, I am using word 2007 and want to add a number of custom margin settings, or change the 'microsoft default' margin settings. Basically, I have 3 or 4 page layouts (with different margins) that i use for work, and none of them are the same as any of the microsoft standard margin settings. At the moment, every time i need to change the margin, i need to type the settings in manually. What i want to do is save my 4 settings and add them to the 5 existing 'standard' options, or failing that, change the 5 existing microsoft settings to my own ones. Is there any way to do this? Many thanks! |
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How to add more than 1 custom margin setting word 2007
Suzanne's suggestion to store custom section settings in a Word 2007 building block gallery (Quickparts, AutoText, etc) may be one of the most straight forward approachs and doesn't require the use of macros, which, as you mentioned, may not be allowed at work  The Word 2007 Gallery presets for Page Layout=Page Setup=Margins are handled a bit differently than many of the 'building block' galleries in Word 2007. There are seven named settings. Last Custom Setting Normal Narrow Moderate Wide Mirrored Office 2003 Default The 'Last Custom Margin Setting' (from the Page Setup Dialog) is stored in the registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord\Options (Decimal value of 914,400 = 1") (Other Office apps have a similar registry setting for the 'Last Custom Margin Setting') the other six appear to be stored internally in the program. 'Normal', in this 'named margins setting' context, is not a reference to the current default setting of the 'Normal' template, but a fixed name description of the 'out of the box' [normal] setting for Word 2007. If you open a document, or create a new document from a template, or if your typing cursor is in a Section of the and the margins do not match any of the named 7 dwarfs then nothing will be highlighted in the Margins dropdown. =========== "Cocksy Boy" wrote in message ... Hi Steven & Suzanne, I think the templates could be a good method of getting round this for about half of the time, the other half of the time, the different margins are required in the same document. Basically, some pages have to have the smallest margin possible (as defined by our printer, which is nearly borderless) so that technical drawings can fill the piece of paper at the largest size possible. The majority of the pages require a 2cm margin all round, and some other specific pages require a 1cm margin all round, some require 2cm at the top / bottom, & 1cm at the side, and there are a couple of other simlar sizes I can't remember off the top of my head. I can't really go into much more detail than that - sorry! Is the alternative method a lot more difficult to implement? Many TIA! -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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