{"id":60143,"date":"2017-12-02T15:51:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T15:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/?p=60143"},"modified":"2019-02-06T11:44:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T11:44:58","slug":"change-margins-google-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/google-workspace\/change-margins-google-docs\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change margins on Google Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tag\/g-suite\/\">Google Workspace customer<\/a> or Google Account free user, and you gain the great collaborative and time saving benefit of using Google Docs for your Word Processing, maybe you wanted to learn how to do certain little tricks!? In this tutorial, we describe how you can change the margin sizes on Google Docs in order to make your page narrower, wider or to increase or decrease the space at the top or bottom of your page.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-662f9605ac772\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"ez-toc-cssicon\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #0a0a0a;color:#0a0a0a\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #0a0a0a;color:#0a0a0a\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-662f9605ac772\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/google-workspace\/change-margins-google-docs\/#How_to_edit_margins_on_Google_Docs\" title=\"How to edit margins on Google Docs\">How to edit margins on Google Docs<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/google-workspace\/change-margins-google-docs\/#Setting_the_margins_for_the_whole_document\" title=\"Setting the margins for the whole document\">Setting the margins for the whole document<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/google-workspace\/change-margins-google-docs\/#First_Open_the_File_Menu\" title=\"First, Open the File Menu\">First, Open the File Menu<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/google-workspace\/change-margins-google-docs\/#Then_set_Top_Bottom_Left_and_Right_margins\" title=\"Then set Top, Bottom, Left and Right margins\">Then set Top, Bottom, Left and Right margins<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/google-workspace\/change-margins-google-docs\/#Finally_Click_OK\" title=\"Finally, Click OK\">Finally, Click OK<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/google-workspace\/change-margins-google-docs\/#Set_as_default\" title=\"Set as default\">Set as default<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/google-workspace\/change-margins-google-docs\/#Use_a_keyboard_shortcut\" title=\"Use a keyboard shortcut\">Use a keyboard shortcut<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/google-workspace\/change-margins-google-docs\/#Setting_the_margins_for_a_particular_paragraph_or_paragraphs\" title=\"Setting the margins for a particular paragraph (or paragraphs)\">Setting the margins for a particular paragraph (or paragraphs)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/google-workspace\/change-margins-google-docs\/#Talk_to_us\" title=\"Talk to us\">Talk to us<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_edit_margins_on_Google_Docs\"><\/span>How to edit margins on Google Docs<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>First up, login to your Google Workspace account and access the document in question &#8211; an easy way to do this is to go to drive.google.com and search up the document title, or something mentioned in the document. I am also a heavy user of the &#8220;recent documents&#8221; section, as I work on the same docs a lot &#8211; that can be a good place to quickly find your doc.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;re looking at the relevant document, you can move onto the tutorial, below.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Setting_the_margins_for_the_whole_document\"><\/span>Setting the margins for the whole document<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"First_Open_the_File_Menu\"><\/span>First, Open the File Menu<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Then, click &#8220;File&#8221; and find and click on &#8220;Page setup&#8221; which you can see in the image below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60144\" src=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/google-docs-file-menu.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"383\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/google-docs-file-menu.png 383w, https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/google-docs-file-menu-100x139.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This will bring up the following menu, where you can set your margin for top, bottom, left and right, and then click &#8220;OK&#8221; to make these changes apply.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Then_set_Top_Bottom_Left_and_Right_margins\"><\/span>Then set Top, Bottom, Left and Right margins<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60145\" src=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/google-docs-page-setup.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"450\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/google-docs-page-setup.png 450w, https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/google-docs-page-setup-416x336.png 416w, https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/google-docs-page-setup-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/google-docs-page-setup-100x81.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Finally_Click_OK\"><\/span>Finally, Click OK<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>When this is done, you&#8217;re done! This should have been a successful mission, Captain!<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Set_as_default\"><\/span>Set as default<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>NOTE &#8211; you can click &#8220;set as default&#8221; if you <strong>always want your docs to be formatted in this way<\/strong>, by default. This may save you repeating this step in the future, particularly if this is how you always setup your Docs.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Use_a_keyboard_shortcut\"><\/span>Use a keyboard shortcut<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>You can quickly shortcut to the &#8220;File&#8221; menu by pressing:<\/p>\n<p>`Alt+Shift+F`<\/p>\n<p>Then you will have to physically click the &#8220;Page setup&#8221; option&#8230; there is no shortcut for this! To view all <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/g-suite\/keyboard-shortcuts-google-docs\/\">keyboard shortcuts for Google Docs, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Setting_the_margins_for_a_particular_paragraph_or_paragraphs\"><\/span>Setting the margins for a particular paragraph (or paragraphs)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to adjust the margins for a specific paragraph &#8211; or paragraphs &#8211; maybe you&#8217;re writing a play, or a poem, or something for which you&#8217;d like to have a section of text &#8220;indented&#8221; in a uniform manner (or something!), then the below will get that done:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Put your cursor into a paragraph of text (the one you&#8217;d like to adjust margins for) OR select by highlighting multiple paragraphs (if you&#8217;d like to adjust many)<\/li>\n<li>In the ruler at the top of the page, there will be a downwards pointing arrow at the left and right where the margin is set &#8211; drag this to move the margin for this paragraph(s)<\/li>\n<li>Done! You have set custom margins for a paragraph or paragraph within your Google Doc!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Talk_to_us\"><\/span>Talk to us<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Leave a comment below if this helped you get this done today. Silicon Dales are authorised resellers of the Google Workspace package for businesses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/google-workspace\/\">Get Google\u2019s Google Workspace for your Business Here \u2013 fully managed or 20% off.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a Google Workspace customer or Google Account free user, and you gain the great collaborative and time saving benefit of using Google Docs for your Word Processing, maybe you wanted to learn how to do certain little tricks!? 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