To create mirror margins, select Layout Margins and select Mirrored.

Coletta Teske is a Lifewire writer focusing on consumer electronics.

She has 30 years experience writing for Adobe, Boeing, Microsoft, and many others.

Not all documents fit inside Words default one-inch margin between the text and the edge of the page.

To change the margins in your Word documents, use one of several choices, from predefined margins that make it easy to apply a different size margin, to the customized margins adjustable to fit your needs.

To make the margins in your document smaller or larger, use Words Narrow, Moderate, or Wide margins.

To print your document on both sides of the paper and put it in a three-ring binder, use the Mirror margin setting.

However, if you view a document with mirror margins in Word Online, the mirror margins are preserved.

To apply a predefined margin, select Layout Margins and choose the predefined margin you want to use.

The horizontal ruler displayed below the Word menu provides another way to change the margins in your document.

If the ruler is not displayed above your document, select View and place a checkmark next to Ruler to display the ruler.

Select View Print Layout to display the document in print view.

Drag the margin to the right to make it wider or to the left to make it narrower.

Change the right margin: Place the cursor over the right indent until it changes to a double-headed arrow.

Drag the margin to the left to make it wider or to the right to make it narrower.

When you need a certain size margin for a document, use the custom settings.

Change the size for the Top, Bottom, Left, and Right margins.

Select Set As Default to set the new margin settings as the default for the current template.

This margin setting will be used in each new document you create based on that template.

Documents that will be bound need extra margin space for the binding.

This gutter margin ensures the binding doesnt interfere with the white space around the text.

Switch to the desktop version of Word to set gutter margins.

Documents printed on both sides of the page and bound, such as books and magazines, use a special margin setting.

These mirror margins ensure the right and left pages are mirror images of each other.

Change Indent In Word For Mac