I've set mine to 25 mm (even) for years, and probably drives everyone nuts when they pull my documents up on their machine with margins set for 0.984 inches. But I've never had a proposal kicked out for margin violations, and I think I'd make a federal case if they did.
I probably get an extra 2% word count that way. Nat -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Elwell Sent: Monday, 2005 March 21 11:17 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:32531] Re: Style manuals (was CNN uses primarily metric in article) At 20 03 05, 08:45 PM, Pat Naughtin wrote: >Some time ago, After I changed the default settings in MS Word to >millimetres, I noticed that all new pages were routinely set at the >default for page margins (25.4 top and bottom and 31.7 millimetres on >each side). > >I now routinely reset these to 20 millimetres all round and it took a >while for me to realise that this meant that I was getting an increase >in the usable paper that I calculate to be up by just under 25 %. > >This could add to quite large savings by any group or company that uses >a lot of paper. I don't know about Word, but in WordPerfect you can set a "default style" that sets the margins on all new documents automatically. I use 20 mm margins and 10 mm tabs on everything. Jim Jim Elwell, CAMS Electrical Engineer Industrial manufacturing manager Salt Lake City, Utah, USA www.qsicorp.com
