Word - Change margins on single page in Word 2007

Solution In Word you can over-ride the set margins by using Section Breaks. Margins would be considered Page formatting – it affects the document on a “page” level, like the Orientations Portrait and Landscape, paper size, or headers and footers. These directions are to insert a Next Page type of section break, which will force a new page that would have the different margins, orientation, or header/footer. Below the content on that new, different page there will be another Next Page break, and the following pages could either have the original page formatting or a different set of page formats.

This can be done on an existing document or while creating a new document.

To insert a Section Break:
1.Move the cursor to where the different formatting the will start.
2.On the Page Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, click Breaks.

3.In the menu that pops out, choose Next Page break. The cursor and any content after it will be moved to the top of the new page.
4.Move the cursor to the point where the changed page formatting will end.
5.Insert another Next Page break. You should have inserted two section breaks, which mark the beginning and ending of the different page formatting.
6.Move the cursor anywhere in between the page breaks and change whatever page formatting you want to. The change will be confined to the area between the two page breaks.

Extras:
■To see the Section Breaks, turn on the Show/Hide Paragraph marks.
■To remove Section breaks, turn on Show/Hide Paragraph marks, move the cursor directly in front of the Section Break code and delete.
■When you add Section Breaks breaks, Word automatically numbers each section. The first page of the document would be section 1, section 2 would start after the Next Page section break, and so on. To see the Section number on the status bar (the bar at the bottom of the Word screen where it has Page # of #) right-click on the Status bar and choose Section. Now it should say: Section: 1 on the Status bar.

■You can use the Section: 1 area on the Status bar to move to the beginning of any section by clicking it, (opens Find and Replace box) under Go to what:, click Section, under Enter section number: type in the number and Enter (or click Go To).

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Article ID:	101
Category:	MS Office
Date added:	2011-11-04 21:07:10
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