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Questions tagged [margins]

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How to change the Google Chrome default print margins

In Chrome, the default print margins are narrow. I would like the default to be wider. Is there a way to make them wider?
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How to correct margins when printing a PDF?

I need to print some mathematical articles. But the margin is too large, so I want to edit it to solve this problem. One way is converting it to Microsoft Word (I think). But I tried some programs and they give very bad conversions. How would you…
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Auto-crop black margins dynamically of scanned images?

I have a notebook photocopied and the photocopy scanned, about 200 pages. For various reasons I need to print this material. There are large amounts of black areas at the sides of the page (after the page itself ends), "black margins". The image…
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Creating different margins on the first page of a word template

I have a letterhead template and I need the first page left margin to be larger than subsequent pages. I've seen the option of placing a text box or image box in the header to push the text but this ends up throwing off the tabs and bullet list…
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A PDF viewer for large margins in fullscreen

I am looking for a way to pleasantly read PDF files on my widescreen (22" 1680x1050) monitor. My problem with all pdf the PDF-viewer applications I have tried is that they do not handle wide and high margins well. If I go to fullscreen mode in my…
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Removing VSCode Code Margin

I opened VS Code today to find these annoying side margins taking up meaningless space. Considering I usually push the code to the side with other windows open, this really clogs up my screen. Does anyone know how to remove these, or at least know…
Seraphendipity
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Web layout with margins in Microsoft Word or LibreOffice Writer?

In any word processor, is there any way to restrict the width of the web layout view to a comfortable width for reading and writing? I understand that you could simply make the GUI window narrower but I was hoping for a less distracting…
Matthew Palermo
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Create PDF from an Excel file without margins in Windows 7

This question is kind of answered, but that solution doesn't work for Windows 7. I've set margins to 0, no scaling and put colored shape all over printable area (few columns and rows from A1), for testing purposes (image below). Also, columns and…
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Converting a Docx file to PDF without losing any formatting

I am attempting to convert a Docx file that I have to a PDF. I have done this many times before, but this particular file has a lot of unique formatting with page breaks; some pages are landscape, some are portrait, some have normal margins, some…
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IntelliJ IDE: How to add one or more margins

I like PyCharm a lot. I write a good chunk of python for my job. I want to conform to PEP8 and it's line length suggestions as best as possible. Having right margins for 72 characters, 79 characters, and 99 characters is very important to me.…
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Cannot modify top/bottom space for header/footer in LibreOffice, and disabled Header/Footer after export to Office 2007

I have written my Thesis in LibreOffice. Everything is fine, but my University requires to provide the Thesis in a very specific format. In LibreOffice I cannot replicate the "From Top/From Bottom" space for header/footer. As a result the template…
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How can I have different margins in Libre Office Writer?

I need to write a document that will be printed front/back on multiple sheets that are then to be stapled together. I need to leave different margins depending if the page is even or odd, for one I need wider margin right for another on the left. Is…
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Excel printed pages are different between two machines

I an excel spredsheet that I want to print from two different machines. On the first machine is printed on a single page where on the second needs two as the last line cannot fit on the first page. I have installed the same drivers on both…
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Change Print Margins in Firefox on Mac?

I got a call asking how to change print margins in Firefox on their new Apple computers. The Alt does not reveal a menu bar (File, Edit, View, etc) so File->Page Setup is not reachable there. Clicking the Print button in the new-style menu seems to…
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How to view page/column margins

In Microsoft Word 2013 is there a way to view the margins so I can see where the limits of my current column are (one column or multiple columns)? The closest I have gotten to this is by checking the Show text boundaries settings in the Advanced…
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