Add or adjust margins

1. On the Windows taskbar, click the Start button, point to All Programs, then to Accessories, and then click WordPad.
2. On the File menu, click Page Setup.
3. Type 0 for the Left, Right, Top, and Bottom margin boxes. The margin values will then be reset automatically to the minimum margin that is supported by the printer.
4. Note the minimum margins. You will need to type them in after you open Microsoft Publisher.
5. Open a publication in Publisher.
6. On the Arrange menu, click Layout Guides, and then click the Margin Guides tab.
7. Under Margin Guides, type the minimum margin values that you noted earlier for Left, Right, Top, and Bottom.
8. Click OK.

1. Right-click a text box, and then click Format Text Box.
2. In the Format Text Box dialog box, click the Text Box tab.
3. Under Text Box Margins, type or select the margins you want for Left, Right, Top, and Bottom.
4. Click OK.

Note  Publisher's default text box margins are 0.04 inches on all sides. If you are creating a multi-column newsletter, you may want to change the margins to 0 inches to make it easier to align text and objects.

If there is an existing text box in your publication that already has the margins you want to use as defaults, you can use it as the example for new text boxes that you will create. Otherwise, you need to first create a text box and set the default margins you want.

Use an existing text box with the margins you want

Create a new text box with the margins you want