1. Page layout menu in Microsoft Word gives various uses for the user to set themes, page setup, page background, paragraph and arrangement in the document. Page layout features in Microsoft Word is very useful for e-book publisher and document printing business and also for common word users.
2. Themes in Microsoft Word, a theme is a set of pre-designed document design fonts, headings, effects etc. By the use of theme option in Microsoft Word, the user can change the overall design of the page such as fonts, effects, and colors etc.
3. Page Setup: Page setup is the most important option and the users start after creating a new document. I always recommend to all my students that before writing, creating, designing or doing anything in Microsoft you should first do the page setup. Why because all the page margins, page orientation and size etc. Creating problems later when you print the document or do the arrangement of objects.
4. Margins option is used to set blank spaces from edges towards inside from outside. Margins are page edges that are the outside main content of the document. The margin will help us to define paragraph starting point and ending point. By doing click on margin option there are various predefined margins such as narrow in which margins are 0.5 from the top, bottom, left and right. Where normal is 1" from all four sides. If the physical paper is the A4 size it means its width is 8.27" and height is 11.69" then you can set 0.5" margin from all corners recommended. Because the fewer margins on the edges will use less paper for your document. Else, if you set 1" then it will use more printouts for your same document.
5. Orientation used is to set page layout from Vertical to Horizontal or Portrait to Horizontal. A simple way to understand the uses of orientation in Microsoft Word is that it will allow the users to switch the page layout according to text writing flow. Portrait mean layout style is from left to right and landscape mean right to left. This will be use's example, if you're printing your document on the A4 size and your text in the document going outside the page from the right and using less space towards the bottom, then you can set landscape. For example, Exam date sheet, Marriage card, Diploma certificates etc. are printed in the Landscape layout. Where mark sheet, admission forms are printed in portrait. The best way to switch to one option, then see the document samples that you want to print or check if the page size or margins are not meeting with your designing criteria. Mostly 90% times we use portrait layout in page setup. So, if you find your document text is not getting proper arrangement on printed page, then you can do the experiment to switch portrait layout to landscape in page setup option in Microsoft Word.
6. Page size, as I discussed above that it depends on the kind of your document you're printing. If you're printing your document on A4 paper size that you purchased in the market, then set A4. Because you can't set A5 in this condition because then some text will not be printed in the document. You can vary the page sizes according to the section.
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