How to Change Margins in Google Docs [2 Easy Ways]

Welcome to ‘The TechVin’, In this article, you will learn ‘How to Change Margins In Google Docs’ accurately and easily. Here, You can find all the ways by which you can change the margins in google docs easily. However, it is the right margin, left margin, or top or bottom margins you are going to learn everything about the margins in this guide. 

Margins are the white blank part of the google doc page which is available on the right, left, top, and bottom sides of google docs. In the google docs, the default margins are well set and these default margins are best for any type of document. But these default margins are not suited for some type of documents. If you also have a document in which you want to change the margins of the document then read the article carefully.

How to Change Margins In Google Docs

There are two ways that are available in google docs to change the margins in google docs. The first method is easy but it takes too much time if you want to set the margins accurately. The second way is simple and easy to change the margins accurately. However, both ways are easy to change the margins. You have to just understand the steps for one time. So let’s read the ways to change the margins.

How to Change Left or Right Margins In Google Docs Using Ruler

In the first way, we are going to use the rulers to change the left or right margins in google docs. It is too easy to change the left or right margins in google docs using the ruler. You have to use the ruler shown on the upper side of the page in google docs. If you aren’t able to see the ruler then you can read the last Important words of this article. In the last Important words, we have described how you can get the ruler in google docs. You can learn it step by step, so let’s start the steps.

For the Left Margin

1. First of all, you have to open the google docs on your PC. You can click on ‘Open Google docs’ to open it right now on the next tab of your browser.
2. In the second step, You need to open the document in which you want to change the margins.
3. You have to move your cursor on the grey part of the ruler. When you reach the grey part of the ruler that shows the margins of the page then you can see the left-right arrow ‘↔’ like this. You can get the help of the below screenshot image.     
4. When you see this left-right arrow after that you have to left-click and drag it to the left side to increase the margins. You can drag it to the right side to decrease the margin.  

For the Right Margin

1. You can follow the steps but the steps are almost the same for the right margins.
2. Move your cursor and place it to the grey part of the ruler on the right side. This grey part indicates the size of the margin. When you place your cursor on the grey part of the ruler on the right side then you can see a left-right arrow ‘↔’ like this.   
3. When you will see it then just left-click on your mouse and drag it to the right to decrease the margin and drag it to the left side to increase the margin.

By following these steps you can change the left or right side of the margins in google docs. So this is the complete process that you have to follow to change the margins.

When you decrease the margins of google docs then space is also decreased in your document. After that, your document looks unclear and it affects your document. So, if you want to make it clear and attractive then you need to read how to double space in google docs without increasing margins. You have to just click on the below article.

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How to Change Top or Bottom Margins using Ruler

The default setup of top and bottom margins covers too much space on the page of google docs. If you want to change the top and bottom margins in google docs using the ruler then follow these easy steps.

For the Top Margin

1. Firstly, you have to open the google docs on your PC. 
2. Open the document in which you want to change the margins.
3. Move your cursor to the ruler which is available on the left side.
4. You have to move your cursor on the grey part of the ruler in which you can see the numbers. When you are in the correct place then you can see the up-down arrow ‘↕’ like this.   
5. When you see this arrow then you have to left-click on the mouse and drag it to the up if you want to decrease the margin and drag it to the down if you want to increase the margin.

For the Bottom Margin

1. You have to do the same for the bottom margin also.
2. Move your cursor to the grey part of the left ruler. When you are in the correct place then you can see an up-down arrow, ‘↕’ like this.   
3. You have to left-click on the mouse and drag it to the upper side to increase the margin and drag it to the down-side to decrease the margin.

So these are the complete steps to change the top and bottom margins in google docs.

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How to Change Margins Accurately using Page Setup in Google Docs

This is the last way of ‘How to Change Margins In Google Docs’ and this is the best way to change margins accurately in google docs. We are going to use the page setup to change the margins accurately. So let’s start the steps to change the margins in google docs.

1. First of all, Open the Google Docs on your PC.
2. Open the document in which you want to change margins in google docs.
3. Now you have to click on the ‘File’ tab in the menu bar.     
4. A drop-down menu will open in which you have to click on the Page Setup in the menu bar. For finding the page setup, you have to scroll down this drop-down menu. After that, click on the second last option of page setup. 
5. One dialogue will open when you click on page setup. 
6. In this dialogue box, you can see the section of ‘Margins’. You can set your margins with the help of this section in which you have top, bottom, left, and right margins.
7. When you have completed your editing then you can click OK.

So this is the complete process that you have to follow if you want to change the margins accurately. You can edit the numbers of the margins section to decrease or increase the margins.

Sometimes when you increase or decrease the margins in google docs then some blank pages will be created. So if you want to learn how to delete a page in google docs then you click on the below text to read it.

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Important information

In the upper two ways, we have described the ways in which you have to use the ruler. If you don’t have the ruler in your google doc then you can click on the ‘View’ tab in the bar. After that, you have to click on ‘Show ruler’. Now you can see the ruler in the upper and left of your google doc.

If you want to print your document then sometimes it happens that you get so much blank space of margins on your page. So if you have this type of problem or any type of condition in which you want to change the margins of the google doc page. You can follow these upper ways to change the margins in google docs. This article will help you.

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