In most applications you want to print something. On a page you need to know the working area of the page. You set margins to define that area. Sometimes you may adjust margins in order to make the working area of the page bigger so that you can fit more onto the page. You should always have some margins to enable you to do things around the edge of the page like bind pages or punch holes in them and not interfere with the text. You also need space for headers and footers. They go into the margin areas.
custom margins command
All margins are 1 inch for APA format. The header is 1/2 inch down from the top of the page.
If you have Windows 2003, in a Word document, you should be able to go to "file" at the top left and click "page setup." Margins should appear at the top of the popup. For Windows 2007, you'll go to page layout at the top, and click there. "Margins" should be one of the first drop down tabs.
To set the left & right margins... Click Format > Page > Page > type values for your margins in the relevant boxes > OK Alignment is defining where on the page that text will line up. Tex normally aligns to the left margin - however, you can align to the right margin or even centre each line on the page.
Page set up generally refers to the margins (top, bottom, left, right) of the document. It can also include headers and footers, and possibly even paragraph formatting.
Then your document ends up with whatever default margins the word processor uses. This is usually quite acceptable; personally, I rarely change those margins.
In a document with facing pages like a magazine, typically mirror or alternating margins are used. Mirror margins ensure symmetrical margins on both inner and outer edges of the facing pages, while alternating margins adjust the inner and outer margins for each page to accommodate the binding of the magazine.
In Microsoft Word 2003, it is under File --> Page Setup, and on the Margins tab you can set the regular margins. On the Layout tab, you can set the header and footer margins. In Microsoft Word 2007, it is on the Page Layout tab. There is a Margins dropdown menu.
The best way that I have found is to create a text box with no border in the margin, and type in it. Or are you talking about making comments in the margin? That would be done by using mark-ups.
grid or rule
Go into the File menu and Page Setup. Margins and other things can be set there.
Which document screen feature is used to set margins and tab