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You may occasionally need to set your margins to a specific measurement.

Set OpenOffice Writer margins using menus The light colored line that marks the margins will not be visible if you have no margins set. If you want your page to have no margins, just mouse over the end of the ruler until you see the margin marker and drag it outward until it is at the edge of the document. To set the top and bottom margins, use the same procedure at the top and bottom of the vertical ruler. Repeat the procedure on the right side and drag it inward until that margin is where you want it. Hover your mouse over ends of rulers to change margins.Ĭlick that marker and drag it inward from the edge of the document until it is where you want your margin to be. Hover your mouse over the left end of the horizontal ruler until you see a marker like a dark vertical line with an arrow facing toward the center of the document. If you do not see the line, your margins are probably set to zero.īy default the ruler in OpenOffice Writer is a lighter color than the surrounding background. You can see the document’s current margins represented by a thin line near the top, bottom, and both sides. OpenOffice uses the singular term Ruler, but it will open both rulers-the horizontal top ruler and the vertical ruler along the left side. If you don’t see the rulers, you can activate them by going to the View menu, then clicking Ruler.

If you are accustomed to the ruler in Microsoft Word, you’ll find some differences in OpenOffice Writer’s rulers. The simplest and fastest way to set margins in OpenOffice Writer is by using the horizontal ruler.