Saving paper while making projects look neater

Some observations by Floyd Winters

Microsoft Office is set up by default to waste paper. Office XP and 2003 set the default page margins to 1.25 inch instead of the traditional 1 inch setting. To save a little paper and set your Office 2003 documents to the conventional default to 1 inch choose:

For Office 2003: File> Page Setup > Margins > Set margins to 1 -1 -1 -1 > then Click [Default]

Microsoft Office 2007 incorporated another way to waste paper by setting the default Page Layout to add 10 additional points of vertical spacing to lines in your documents, almost giving the appearance of double spacing. This also wastes paper and may even produce an unprofessional appearance:

For Office 2007: Page Layout > Set Spacing After to 0 (so that your documents do not appear double spaced) > Then click [Default]

These default settings seem to have been made by Microsoft, based in Redmond Washington, to waste paper and thus consume more lumber for Washington S tate.

Sometimes you may have a multi-page document which has one orphaned paragraph on the last page. This can needlessly waste paper if you need to reproduce this document in volume, such as printing a course syllabus, (which should actually be posted to Angel instead). Often in situations like this, you can save paper and even improve the appearance of your document by setting your Margins to .9 instead of 1 inch, and by using an 11 point font instead of a 12 point font, and consequently fitting everything on fewer pages.