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If 10,000 Biters switch from the default settings to 0.5-in margins, in a year we'll preserve more than an acre of trees.
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Does size really matter?
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Um, yeah - when you're talking page margins. By reducing margins in Word documents before printing, we'll all beat off paper waste.The Benefits
- Paper-use reduction. The average office worker could save 475 sheets of paper per year by reducing their margins from the default setting of 1 in to 0.50 in.
- A cash endowment. The savings won't help you retire early, but an office of 100 will save about $500 on paper per year.
- Bonus enlargement? If you send this tip to your boss, who knows? You might just get a bigger year-end bonus.
Personally Speaking
Sara's making up for all of the margins she increased on her high-school term papers to meet page length requirements by using her iPhone for basically everything - thank goodness it isn't connected to a printer.Wanna Try?
- About.com Word Processing - step-by-step directions for changing your Word-doc margins.
- Change the Margins - click "Sign the Microsoft Petition" on the right, and ask Microsoft to make the default Word margins narrower.
Dec 13,2007
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Brevity is the soul of wit
Shakespeare anticipated my existence when he wrote that, or at least I liked to think so when I increased page margins and font sizing on essays and papers back at school. My MO is to keep all communications short and sweet.
The only time I tend to get verbose is when I've had a few too many to drink. Recently this happened over a few Square One Vodka cocktails. Tasty, organic, U.S.-produced vodka makes me chatty to the point where I could probably talk your ear off about any subject...Word margins, for instance. Good thing, then, that I'm stone-cold sober as I write this.
-Toshio...off to sit in silence...
The only time I tend to get verbose is when I've had a few too many to drink. Recently this happened over a few Square One Vodka cocktails. Tasty, organic, U.S.-produced vodka makes me chatty to the point where I could probably talk your ear off about any subject...Word margins, for instance. Good thing, then, that I'm stone-cold sober as I write this.
-Toshio...off to sit in silence...
Biter Comments...
Another famous quote, this one by Ben Franklin: "When the wine enters, out goes the truth." This sums up why I need to stay away from wine. But, I always recycle the bottle!
Regarding today's tip (12/15/7)
Besides changing the margins, let's do more double side printing. Using only one side dates back to the original typewriter when the type went through to the other side.
i work in the movie business where 99% of scripts are still printed on 1 side. This is pointless & wasteful.
There's probably lots of other businesses where double side printing could be used & isn't just because people are used to single side. (How about all those legal briefs?)
When changing to smaller margins don't forget how wasteful it is to print off of the internet. Always use print preview to see how many pages you acturally want and print only that many, double-sided of course. Otherwise you get several pages of adds and other debris printed only down the side of the paper.
I personally do not use word, but I bet the default font size is 12pt. By changing the font size to a smaller one and decreasing the margins you can save paper. There is one drawback though, the readability of the text because the lines are too long. If this is the case change your document to 2 columns and you can even decrease the width of the space between the columns. Less white space and less paper yet readable.
Linda
great post! thanks for sharing!
great post! thanks for sharing
I agree, you have to decrease the margins and the font size to save on paper.
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