Change Default Print Setting In Word For Mac

Change Default Paper Size from Letter Small to Letter. Article contributed by Beth Rosengard (with special thanks to Rob Daly). What you see in Word's Print dialog is an adaptation of the Mac operating system's print dialog. Stefan: When any MS Word document is opened, it is automatically in Markup mode. That is, 'Markup' is checked in the View drop-down menu. And all the documents are highlighted with tracking changes, comments, and history.

This document details how to change the default font, font size, and page margins in Word. • • • • Open a new document, click on the Home tab, click on the Font dialog box button as shown in the screenshot below, and select the Font tab. • Choose the font settings that you would like to make the default and click Set As Default • Select All documents based on the Normal.dotm template?

And click OK to update the default for all new documents. • To change Word's default page margins, click on the Page Layout tab and click on the Page Setup dialog box button as shown in the screenshot below. • Set the new margins that you would like to make the default and click Set As Default • Click Yes to apply the new margins to all new documents. • Open a new document, click on the Home tab, click on the Font Dialog Box Launcher (as shown in the screenshot below) and select the Font tab. • Select a new font and size in the Font dialog box, and then click Default. Word will ask you if you want these changes to apply to all new documents using the 'Normal template' (normal.dot).

• Click Yes to make the changes permanent. The change will apply to Word's Normal/default style and to all styles based on Normal. • To change Word's default page margins, click the Page Setup Dialog Box launcher as shown in the screenshot below. • The first tab should be Margins. Make your changes to the margins here, and then click Default. • Click Yes when Word asks you to confirm the changes. This warning will look exactly like the one shown above.

Note:You can also change other settings affecting page layout (including paper orientation and line numbering) in the same dialog box. • Open a new document and select Format > Font. • Select a new font and size in the Font dialog box, and then click Default. Word will ask you if you want these changes to apply to all new documents using the 'Normal template' (normal.dot). • Click Yes to make the changes permanent. The change will apply to Word's Normal/default style and to all styles based on Normal. • To change Word's default page margins, select File > Page Setup.

The first tab should be Margins, make your changes to the margins here, and then click Default. • Click Yes when Word asks you to confirm the changes. This warning will look exactly like the one shown above. Note: You can also change other settings affecting page layout (including paper orientation and line numbering) in the same dialog box.

This is actually a re-hash of a hint first published almost 20 years ago. Because there was no MacOSXHints! Once you've created a Print Preset that suits your needs, save it with a unique name. You'll be able to select it from the Presets popup menu in the Print dialog. But what if you want that to be the default setting?

Reaching back into our collective Macintosh memory, hold down the Option key when selecting the Print button and the current Preset will become the default for all apps. I was able to get rid of that 'reverse order' nonsense! Did you know that, when 'reverse order' is checked, printing pages 1 to 2 of a four page document prints pages 3 to 4? Can you say 'Left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing?' How about 'Windoze-like!@%$##%!' I know you can!