how to change word settings from a4 to letter

Or on the other hand, please don’t make me change it every time I need to print. Microsoft Word knows my location from the Regional Settings on my PC – why aren’t my default Word Templates created as A4? (They should be if the location was set before installing Word, but I think it should be dynamically based on that setting – if you want to create specific Templates with other paper sizes, you can do that).Īnd worse of all, please, please, please, do NOT set the default as Letter and not even have an option for me to change it in the settings to anything else as the Default.

Google knows I’m in Australia, why can’t it determine the settings for me automatically as Metric and A4. Google Docs only very recently gave us the option of saving a default for our paper sizes and margins – yet the margins are STILL IN INCHES!!!! WHY?Īpart from having the option to change the settings very ocassionally for when you are preparing a document for a US audience, why does the setting even exist? Open Word to a brand new document, go to the Page Layout ribbon and choose Size – what is the default size that your blank documents are set to? If you don’t live in the USA and your documents are set to Letter, you have my permission to go and yell at your IT Department for not setting up your Word environment correctly – You probably still have American spelling in your documents and Inches in your Ruler and margins also! I can forgive regular users to not know there is a world outside the US of A, but I can’t forgive software developers. (True story – an American colleague told me recently that she did not even know there was another paper size other than the “standard” and did not know it was called Letter). Why oh why is there ever any app that asks you whether you want to print this document or set up this document as A4 or Letter sized paper? Well, at least we should be thankful that there is even an option – how many apps do you use that are made in the USA and don’t even give you the option to change the paper size or change away from American spelling.

How to change word settings from a4 to letter