This article explains how to display the ruler in Microsoft Word—and how to use the ruler to change margins and create tabs.

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Whether to improve your document's aesthetic appeal, allow more space for handwritten annotations, or squeeze all your text onto one page, there are many reasons to adjust a Word document's margins.