Need to cut some excess from your life?
While you may be familiar with Beth’s Paper Peeve and my co-workers apologize each time they print a doc… but no longer fear! An easy gesture such as shrinking your margins (I recommend .5″ on all sides ) on computer printouts will save your printer (and co-workers) pages.
Word 2007 even has an easy default:
- Go to the “Page Layout” ribbon
- Click the “Margins” dropdown
- Select “Narrow”.
You’ll be amazed at how much more info you can fit & trees you can save! (One study by Change the Margins says if you change your margins to .75″ on all sides, you can reduce paper by 4.75% – saving 1.14 trees per ton of paper. If the whole US changed their margins, we’d save 6,156,000 trees every year just by a small change.)
Posted by Julie
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Great idea! I work at a large organization and our administration gave out small paper recycle bins to each individual for their desks. I go through a lot of paper during a work week (sadly), but at least I can recycle what I don’t need.
Thanks!
very good idea! Easy to do, good savings, and it’s a lot easier to handle and read 3 pages than 4. when you’re making hand outs for a meeting, consider trying this.
Wow, who would’ve thought? We should petition Microsoft to get their default margins changed!