Now click into the second page and type a couple of paragraphs, followed by a paragraph return. You should see this, with the blue left margin where you originally set it and the section break as a thick horizontal line at the end: Now click back into the text above the break. This will have the effect of creating a second page below your first. Then go to the Insert menu and choose Section Break (this should work with Page Break too). Click at the end of the text, and press return to make sure you have completed a paragraph. On your first page, select all the text and set the margins as you want them. The second shows non-printing formatting marks and will help work out where you are in the document. That’s not so hard, and it should be apparent that you can use similar techniques to add multiple sections to a document, each with its own page numbering format.It helps if you start by going to the View menu and choosing Show Rulers and Show Invisibles. Make sure ‘This section’ is displayed in the Apply To box and click OK.
#How to create different margins on different pages in word how to
Here’s how to do the same thing in Word 2007: