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#FORMAT PAGE NUMBERS IN WORD MAC 2016 HOW TO#

You can adjust margins, font size, or line spacing as necessary to get a desired number of lines per page.

If you have 6 printed lines per inch (step 3) and 9 inches of printable space (step 4), that means you have 54 printed lines per page.

If you have 1-inch top margin and 1-inch bottom margin on your page (Format | Document), that means you have 9 inches of printable space on a standard 11-inch sheet of paper.

There are 72 points in an inch, so that means you can get 6 lines per inch if you are using single line spacing with a 10-point font.

(If you use a different font size, this will obviously change. In other words, with 10-point type you end up with 12-point line space, baseline to baseline. If you display the Indents and Spacing tab of the Paragraph dialog box (Format | Paragraph), the Line Spacing should be set to “Single.” This allows Word to calculate a normal line spacing, which typographically is 120% of your font size.(A fairly standard font is 10-point, so I will use that in the following calculations.) “There is no setting where you indicate “number of lines per page” because most places never worry about that anymore.

#FORMAT PAGE NUMBERS IN WORD MAC 2016 HOW TO#

Turn it off, and it should be fine.”īefore I show you how to do that, however, let’s look at how to set a document to have 25 lines per page. “It is probably because he has orphan/widow control turned on for the paragraph styles he is using. I asked my friend Allan Wyatt, author of my favorite Microsoft Word Tips newsletter, for his assistance. An interesting question and one whose answer is more subtle than it may initially seem.