| User | Thread poster: conejo Standard margins for A4 paper in Europe & Japan? |
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conejo 
United States
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Japanese to English
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Hello. I live in the US, so in the US, a standard format for an MS word document would be Letter paper (8.5 x 11 inches), with margins of 1 inch all the way around. However I do have some customers in Europe and Japan, and I would like to know what the standard margins are considered to be for A4 paper, in Europe & Japan?
Thanks, everybody.
| | | | Jan Willem van Dormolen
Netherlands
Local time: 08:51
Member (2009)
English to Dutch
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| | Your wordprocessor knows | Apr 11, 2007 |
This is not so difficult: just start your word processor, go to the page properties, set the paper size to A4, and it will automatically set the correct margins. These are simply built-in with any serious word processing application.
But I checked, and the margins are 2.5 cm (near to an inch) all round (headers and footers 1.25 cm)
| | | | PAS
Local time: 08:51
English to Polish
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I believe this is the default margin in "European" MS Word. That's pretty close to 2.54 cm (1 inch).
I don't really know if there is an accepted standard.
Pawel Skalinski
[Edited at 2007-04-11 07:49]
| | | | esperantisto
Local time: 09:51
Member (2006)
English to Russian
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| | Probably, they'll vary across countries | Apr 11, 2007 |
In my country, Belarus, in correspondence between government bodies, the following are used:
- top and bottom of 2 cm;
- left of 3 cm;
- right of 1 cm (0,8 cm is allowed).
Other layout, often required by clients, is with all margins of 2 cm.
| | | | megane_wang
Spain
Local time: 08:51
 Member (2007)
English to Spanish
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| | Europe, more or less the same | Apr 11, 2007 |
In Europe it's more or less the same: 2.5 cm (aprox 1 inch) is a minimum.
Side margins: 3 cm is the most common selection, unless you need to bind pages. In that case, a binding margin has to be considered (Word does it automatically). Right margin may be smaller if no hand corrections or notes are expected to be added to the text. But if you deliver the text to a corrector I would advise to leave plenty of space....
Top/bottom margins: 2.5 - 3 cm is the most common too. But if a page includes a logo on top you'll usually need to leave at least 1 cm free below the logo (the larger the logo is, the larger this spacing must be, but for a "typical" header that's it). The same applies to the foot: If you have page numbers, lines, signatures... then it is recommended that you leave at least 1 cm free above them (or the equivalent to 2 line spacings) to avoid mixing up with the text.
Note that this is not a standard. It may exist, but this is what I are used to find and use myself.
Ruth @ MW
[Edited at 2007-04-11 07:59]
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| | | | xxxOlaf
Local time: 08:51
English to German
| | Use Custom Size in MS Word | Apr 11, 2007 |
Note that simply fiddling with the margins will not change US Letter (21.59cm x 27.94cm) to A4 (21cm x 29.7cm), because A4 is taller than US Letter. Since A4 usually isn't pre-defined in the English versions of Word, you'll have to use the Custom Size option (File > Page Setup > Paper tab) to define the format.
Select the following values:
Width: 8.268" (21.0cm)
Height: 11.693" (29.7cm)
Also set all margins to 1" (or 2.5cm).
Olaf
| | | | Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 08:51
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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| | A4 is built-in in my word processor... | Apr 12, 2007 |
Olaf wrote:
Since A4 usually isn't pre-defined in the English versions of Word... |
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Huh? I'm using an English version of MS Word and A4 is right there, already defined for me.
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