This article explains how to display the ruler in Microsoft Word—and how to use the ruler to change margins and create tabs.

Whether to improve your document's aesthetic appeal, allow more space for handwritten annotations, or squeeze all your text onto one page, there are many reasons to adjust a Word document's margins.

You can change the ruler unit from inches to centimeters, millimeters, points, and Picas. Points are used when you need to simulate pixels, while Picas are typically used to represent fixed horizontal ...