Have you ever written a Microsoft Word document and found that your concluding page contains merely a few sentences and a bunch of white space? Instead of editing your work down, you lot can endeavor a nifty hidden characteristic in Word that might solve the problem.

The "Shrink One Folio" control works by automatically sizing down your text and adjusting margins to shrink your certificate merely plenty. If you're working on a document (like a school essay) where you must use a required font or margin size, this command probably won't work well for yous. But in other circumstances, it's worth giving a try. While you tin can undo the command if things don't look right, nosotros'd encourage you lot to save your certificate offset to exist on the safe side.

The "Shrink One Page" command isn't on the Ribbon by default, and then you'll need to add it. The easiest mode to exercise this is to add it to your Quick Access Toolbar. That's the little toolbar at the tiptop left of your window with the Save and Disengage command.

Become ahead and click the downwards pointer at the far correct of the Quick Access Toolbar.

On the driblet-down carte du jour, click the "More Commands" option.

In the Discussion Options window, the "Quick Access Toolbar" category should already be selected on the left. On the right, click the "Choose Commands From" drop-down menu and select the "All Commands" option.

On the long list of commands on the left, scroll down and select the "Shrink One Page" control. Click the "Add" push button to add it to the list of commands shown on the Quick Access Toolbar.

Click "OK" when yous're done.

You lot'll now find the "Shrink One Page" button on your Give-and-take ribbon. Click information technology to shrink your document by 1 page.

Keep in mind that considering Word is resizing fonts and margins, using this command tin can crusade formatting issues—especially if you have images or other illustrations already positioned where y'all want them. Before saving your document, check information technology to make sure that no weird errors occurred during the procedure. If there are, you lot can e'er click the undo button to remove the changes.

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