I am very saddened by the size of the margins set as default by Word. This leading word processing application contributed to an enormous waste of paper by setting the margins to be in my opinion unusually large. To Microsoft’s credit, Word 2007 has a “narrow margins” setting but it’s not the default one. Why not?

Those standing in the defense of wide margins say that documents with wide margins are the standard, and perhaps that they are easier to read. I don’t buy it — this seems like a kind of old-fashioned tradition that nobody is willing to challenge. Let’s change the standard, get used to more text on a page: use narrow margins and save some trees!

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