Learn How to Change Margins in Google Doc
Margins keep the writing aligned and make it look organized. Whether it is a simple Microsoft Word document or Google doc, the margin is essential to add a professional appearance to the writing. Most of you can remember how we used to practice drawing margins on our copies in our early childhood days. Well, changing margins on Google Docs is not as easy as drawing margins on copies. In this article, you will get to know how to change margins on Google Doc. Also, we will be discussing other related whereabouts. So, let’s get started.
How to use Google Doc
Before discussing how to change margins in Google Doc, you should know how to use Google Docs first. If you are a beginner, this will help you to understand the process. Google Docs is an online processor to create, edit, and format documents and share them with other people. To open Google Doc, you first have to open Google browser and sign in there with your respective Gmail Id. After that, you will see a square box-like structure made of dots at the right upper corner of the screen. Click on the dots to find Google docs in the options below.
Then, click on the option of ‘Google Docs’. You will find a Google Docs screen opened like the one in the picture below.
From there, click on the “blank” option and find the Google Docs page open for writing(see the picture below).
Also, you can simply go to https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/ and you will find the “blank” option on the Google Docs page. Click on it to get the new Google Doc page for writing.
Now, you know how to get started with Google Doc. On the Google Doc page, you have surely seen the margins on the four sides of the page screen. You can see the cursor on the middle of the page leaving spaces on the page sides. So, further, we will be discussing how to change margins in Google Doc.
How to Change Margins in Google Doc: Step by step guide
To change the margins on Google Docs, you can follow two methods. One method lets you to set margins for the entire document. And another method is used for formatting specific paragraphs. Let’s discuss the first method. So, let’s know how to change margins for Google Doc for the entire document.
For the entire document:
Step1: First, you have to go to the “File” section of the Google Doc page. You can find it at the left upper corner of the page.
Step2: Then, you will find several options below. From there, you have to go to the “page set up” option. A box with the details of the “page set up” will be opened.
Step3: After that, you can fill the blanks in the page set up box with your preferred margin measurements. Select whether you want the page on portrait or landscape. You can alter the “paper size” as well. Different sizes including A4, A5, etc. are available.
Step4: When you select the margin measurements, click on the “set as default” option, if you want to use this margin alignment for future documents as well.
Step5: Finally, click on the “OK” option below the page to save the changes. Thus, you can change margins for the entire document.
Now, Let’s focus on how to change margins in Google Doc for specific paragraphs.
How to change margins in Google Doc paragraph wise:
We have already discussed how to set up margins for the whole documents. Now, you can change the margins in Google Doc while editing a particular paragraph. The margin will show up for that paragraph you selected only. So, let’s know how to do it.
First, place the cursor at the beginning of the paragraph for which you want to change the margin. Then, drag the blue downward pointing arrow above the text. You have to drag it from the left to the right direction of the page. This will change the left margin set up for the paragraph.
You can see below how the paragraph has been shifted to a new alignment.
Similarly, to change the right margin alignment, drag the blue downward arrow at the right upper side of the page.
The margin will be changed for that specific paragraph you placed the cursor on. You can see below how the margin has been changed for the paragraph.
So, that’s how to change margins for Google Docs. Well, sometimes we face troubles while changing the margins due to windows issues. Your Google doc simply stops working when any windows module issue occurs. To know how to fix the issue, and continue writing on the document without any hassle, click here.
