The margins can be reset permanently, though I can't remember if I did so in the normal.dotm file, or if once you do it in Word, it saves the changes. But, I got it to change for me. Ditto the grammar check and automatic capitalizing and all that. Anyways, I figured it out on my own. In the Document dialog box, click the Margins tab and adjust the top, bottom, left, and right margins as needed. When printing Word docs to my Epson Stylus Photo 820, I normally set the left, right, and top margins to 0.25 inch and the bottom margin to 0.56 inch unless I choose a different driver than allows me to print from edge-to-edge. Do you have any idea how to set a document in Microsoft Word to have exactly 25 lines per page? That’s what the agents and publishers I’m approaching want as a standard format, (1″ margins and 25 lines) but every attempt I’ve made to do that has fallen short one way or another — the occasional 24 or 26 lines. I’ve queried a lot of my other writer friends, but their solutions don’t quite work. They may not be Mac folks. If you don’t have an answer I’m going to be doing a lot of line counting and eyeballing of pages. An interesting question and one whose answer is more subtle than it may initially seem. I asked my friend Allan Wyatt, author of my favorite newsletter, for his assistance. Here’s what he shared with me: “It is probably because he has orphan/widow control turned on for the paragraph styles he is using. Turn it off, and it should be fine.” Before I show you how to do that, however, let’s look at how to set a document to have 25 lines per page. It’s ridiculously complex, sorry to say. Here’s what Allan explains: “There is no setting where you indicate “number of lines per page” because most places never worry about that anymore. Instead, you have to calculate it. • Start your font size. (A fairly standard font is 10-point, so I will use that in the following calculations.) • If you display the Indents and Spacing tab of the Paragraph dialog box (Format| Paragraph), the Line Spacing should be set to “Single.” This allows Word to calculate a normal line spacing, which typographically is 120% of your font size. In other words, with 10-point type you end up with 12-point line space, baseline to baseline. (If you use a different font size, this will obviously change. • There are 72 points in an inch, so that means you can get 6 lines per inch if you are using single line spacing with a 10-point font. (72 / 12 = 6). • If you have 1-inch top margin and 1-inch bottom margin on your page (Format| Document), that means you have 9 inches of printable space on a standard 11-inch sheet of paper. • If you have 6 printed lines per inch (step 3) and 9 inches of printable space (step 4), that means you have 54 printed lines per page. • You can adjust margins, font size, or line spacing as necessary to get a desired number of lines per page. • If you need to print double-space lines, then use the Indents and Spacing tab of the Paragraph dialog box (Format| Paragraph) to set the Line Spacing to “Double.” The only thing this does to your calculations is to divide the number of lines per page (step 5) by 2. If you can follow all of that, you can set your document to be exactly 25 lines per page. This is a bit late to help the original person, but in case anyone else would like to know Word does indeed have a feature for specifying the number of lines per page (often called a “baseline grid” in typography or design circles). This divides the usable portion of the page into a fixed number of lines or spaces, and sets the type (wherever possible) within those lines. The feature is not normally enabled in Word. That’s because Microsoft implemented the feature for certain languages that absolutely require it, such as Japanese. In order to access and use the feature, you must tell Word to install those features (even though you won’t actually type Japanese, of course). The instructions for enabling it may be slightly different for Word 2003 and Word 2007. Samsung printer download for mac scx4729fw. Here are the instructions for Word 2007: 1. Shut down Word. Go to Start > Programs > Microsoft Office > Microsoft Office Tools, and select Microsoft Office 2007 Language settings. (This for Windows XP. For Vista, the navigation may be different.) 3. In the dialog, navigate through the left pane (Available Editing Languages) and select an appropriate language (I recommend Japanese, since I know it works). Click the Add button, so that Japenese is added to the right pane (Enabled Editing Languages). You will probably see a message or note that the language is available only with “limited support”. Ignore this (it just means that Windows isn’t set up to use a Japense keyboard).
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