Creative Changes Blog

The website changethemargins.com is calling for printer owners everywhere to take the simple step of, well, changing their margins from the current luxurious standard 1.25 inches to a the more modest .75 inches. It may sound like a small change, but if everyone in the nation did it, we’d save a little less than a Rhode Island’s worth of trees every year. Does tinkering with Word’s cumbersome preferences scare the fonts right out of you? Another goal of the site is to petition Microsoft to change the default margins on all its Office products.

Changing your margins in Microsoft Word:

Go to “File,” then “Page Setup.”

Once on “Page Setup,” click the “Default” key, and you’ll be offered “Do you want to change the default settings for the page set up? This change will affect all new documents based on the normal template.”

Set each margin to .75 and save an immense amount of paper.

While we are on the saving paper topic, let me just add my tip of the day:

Don't print your e-mails!

There may be the occasional need to print a receipt, or boarding pass, but most of the stuff people are printing out is just a big waste of paper, that does not get read.

OK, I am climbing down off my soap box now.

Until next time,

Sandra