For instance, if you specify a page width of 15 inches, but the printer can only handle paper up to 10 inches wide, then the resulting printout will not be satisfactory, and the printer may actually reject the print job. (These limits are hard-coded into Word and cannot be changed.) If you want to print documents with larger dimensions, then you need to choose a different program-other than Word-to do your printing.īe aware that if you specify a custom size for printing, the results may not be exactly what you think they will be. Word allows you to set any page height and width between. To open the Paragraph dialog box, on the Home tab or on the Page Layout tab, at the bottom of the Paragraph group, click the Paragraph dialog box launcher. As you do so, notice that the Paper Size setting changes to Custom Size. Click on Print Titles or click Dialog Box Launcher in the bottom-right corner of Page Setup group The Page Setup dialog box will be displayed Select Sheet tab In Scaling, select the Fit to option button, and set the area to be 1 page (s) wide by blank page tall (that is, leave the tall input box blank).
If you want to specify a custom paper size, you can do so by simply adjusting the Width and Height settings in the dialog box. The Paper tab of the Page Setup dialog box. Regardless of the method you use, you should make sure that the Paper tab is displayed. Display the Layout tab or Page Layout tab of the ribbon (depending on which version of Word you are using.) Click the small icon at the bottom-right of the Page Setup group.Display the Layout tab or Page Layout tab of the ribbon (depending on which version of Word you are using.) Click the Size tool and then choose More Paper Sizes.There are two ways you can display the proper tab in the dialog box: You can do this through the use of the Page Setup dialog box. However, you may want to set your own custom page size, which Word completely supports. Select one, and your document is reformatted for that page size. It is easy to change to a common page size just display the Layout tab of the ribbon (Word 2016 or a later version) or Page Layout tab (earlier versions of Word.) If you click the Size tool (in the Page Setup group) Word shows you some of the more common page sizes that people use. You probably know that you can specify a size for the paper on which you print your Word documents.