• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Mechanicaleng blog

siemens nx tutorial & injection molding technology

  • Plastic molding
  • Siemens nx
    • nx modeling
    • nx drafting
    • nx sketching
    • nx assembly
  • Mechanical basic
    • mechanical standard
    • Mechanism video
  • microsoft office
    • microsoft word
    • powerpoint
    • excel tips
  • About me
  • CONTACT ME
Home » microsoft office » microsoft word » 3 ways type text in the margin in word document

3 ways type text in the margin in word document

February 19, 2021 by mechanicaleng blog Leave a Comment

MS Word users ever wondered if you could type a text in the margin? Or you are working on a project and want your document to looks better? There are three ways you can put your text in the margin.

Type text in the margin in word document

Post contents

  • I.Type text in the margin by using text box.
  • II. Using ruler bar.
  • III. Using Negative Indentation.

I.Type text in the margin by using text box.

“Text Box” can moves a paragraph everywhere in a document page, very easy and quickly.
Here is the guide for MS Word 2016.
+ 1st: Open the document. Go to “Insert” in the Ribbon and find “Text Box”.
You can use from the options given or choose “Draw Text Box” to customize your own.

draw a text box

+ 2nd: Move to where you want to put your text, then draw a text box with the same size of the content to insert.

word draw a box

+ 3rd: After finish drawing a box, type in the box the content you want.

type text in box

+ 4th: You can also edit the position or the color your content by select tab “Home” i n the ribbon tabs, choose the position or the color you want. I put it in the middle and make it bold as an example.

edit text box

+ 5th: To remove the outline of the Text Box, go to “Format” => “Shape Outline” => Click on “No outline” to remove.

format text box

See the result.

Type text in the margin in word document

Above is the recommended way to write in the margin, depend on your choice we also have other quicker and easier options. Let’s see how to do it.

II. Using ruler bar.

Step 1: Select the content.

Step 2: Move the mouse pointer to the “Left Indent” tool in the ruler bar and drag it to the left, the content will also be moved, to the position you want then release the pointer.

text margin by using ruler bar

You can see the title being moved to the left margin.

III. Using Negative Indentation.

Step 1: Select the content. Then go to tab “Home” and click on the small arrow near “Paragraph”.

word Paragraph option

Step 2: Appeared the Paragraph box. Enter negative value in the box “Left”, press OK to complete the adjustment.
In this example, the align of margin is 1.0, so the maximum value to enter is 1.0, you must not enter a bigger value than this space of the margin. I will set the indentation of -0.5.

word Paragraph dialog

The content will be adjusted to the left.

text margin by using Using Negative Indentation

These options are ways to write content in the margin of the document. The first way is a better choice for you to customize the content yourself, or if you just want a simple marginal content, please choose the easiest way below. Hope this tutorial is useful to you.

 

Related posts:

word drop cap Margin and Lineshow to add a drop cap in word document Center text in cell word table by edit paragraph3 ways to center text in word table translate search forHow to translate a word document? word learning border and shading optionsHow to add boxes to word document?

Filed Under: microsoft word Tagged With: word tips

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • what is spur gear | introduction
  • Mechanical engineering skills from training process
  • What is Inox | Stainless Steel?
  • How to create thread in nx
  • nx assembly| create a new part from the same part
  • how to calculate sum of squares in Excel
  • How to active GC toolkits in Siemens NX
  • How to create a sphere in nx
  • How to create a cone in nx
  • How to create a cylinder in nx

Copyright © 2023 · Magazine Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in