Office 2000 Basics

Defining your pages

Before printing your files, you may want to define your page margins and paper size.

To define margins:

• Choose FilePage Setup from the menu bar.
• The Page Setup dialog box appears. It is slightly different in each of the Microsoft Office applications. For now, we will use the Page Setup dialog box in Word.
• Click the Margins tab and click the top, bottom, left, or right boxes to define the margins.
• Click the Paper Size tab, and click inside the Paper Size list box to define the paper size.

To define paper orientation:

• Portrait orientation prints text so the page is taller than it is wide.
• Landscape orientation prints text so the page is wider than it is tall.
• In Word, this option is available on the Paper Size tab. In Excel, it is on the Page tab. Page Setup is handled a bit differently in PowerPoint and Access.