Comparison of Letter (shaded light blue) and Government letter sizes with some similar paper and photographic paper sizesLetter or ANSI Letter is a commonly used as home or office stationery in the, the and the. It measures 8.5 by 11 inches (215.9 by 279.4 mm).
Versions of Microsoft Word, the default paper size is 8.5 by 11 inches. While you probably print most of your letters, reports, and other documents on this size paper, at some point in time you may want to change the page size in Word to use a different size paper.
US Letter-size paper is a standard defined by the (ANSI, paper size A), in contrast to used by most other countries, and adopted at varying dates, which is defined by the, specifically in.Details The administration made Letter-size paper the norm for U.S. Federal forms in the early 1980s; previously, the smaller 'official' Government Letter size, 8 by 10.5 inches (203.2 by 266.7 mm), was used in government, while 8.5-by-11-inch (215.9 by 279.4 mm) paper was standard in most other offices.In the U.S., paper density is usually measured in 'pounds per ' (of 500 sheets). Typical Letter paper has a of 20 or 24 pounds (9.1 or 10.9 kg) – the weight of 500 sheets (a ) of 17-by-22-inch (431.8 by 558.8 mm) paper at 70 °F (21 °C) and at 50% humidity. One ream of 20-pound Letter-sized paper weighs 5 pounds (2.3 kg), and a single Letter-sized sheet of 20-pound paper weighs 0.16 ounces (4.536 g), which is equivalent to 75.19.
Some metric information is typically included on American ream packaging. For example, 20-pound paper is also labeled as 75.
The most common density of A4 paper is 80 g/m 2.The precise origins of the dimensions of US letter-size paper (8.5 × 11 in) are not known. The says that the standard US dimensions have their origin in the days of manual paper making, the 11' length of the standard paper being about a quarter of 'the average maximum stretch of an experienced vatman's arms'. The letter size falls within the range of the historical size, which since pre-modern times refers to page sizes of 8 to 9 inches (200 to 230 mm) wide and 10 to 11 inches (250 to 280 mm) high, and it is indeed almost exactly one quarter of the old Imperial (British) paper size known as Demy 4to - 17 1⁄ 2 by 22 1⁄ 2 inches (440 by 570 mm) - allowing a 1⁄ 2 inch (13 mm) for trimming.The related paper size known as is exactly one half of the US Letter size: 8.5 by 5.5 inches (215.9 by 139.7 mm) (8.5 × 5.5 in).See also. (definition of metric paper sizes, e.g., A4).Notes.
In this Microsoft word tutorial 2010 you are going to learn how to choose a paper size for a document according to your specifications.Don't forget to check out our site for more free how-to videos!- our feed- join us on facebook- our group in Google+MS word is a great application which offers you a wide number of features that you can use in order to edit and modify your document and make it more attractive, or professional looking. Similarly, we are going to be teaching you about one such feature in this tutorial.In this Microsoft word tutorial 2010 you are going to learn how to choose a paper size for a document according to your specifications. Generally whenever we work on MS Office a default paper size is automatically selected. However, in this tutorial based on word 2010 tutorial you will see how you can select a specific paper size according to the type of document you are working on, and other such bases.Step # 1 -Selecting the Legal sizeFirstly, you will need to go to the 'Page Layout' in the top ribbon and click on the 'Size' button drop down arrow available in the Page Setup menu. Once this is done, you will be able to see a variety of choices appear on your screen in the form of a list. In this case, we will be choosing the option titled 'Legal' whose dimensions are 8.5' x 14'.Step # 2 - Applying legal size page settingsOnce the paper size is selected, you can modify options for the page source.
In order to do so, you will have to go to the 'Size' tab again, as done in Step # 1 and click on 'More paper sizes' given at the end of the list of paper sizes. Using another method, you could simply click on the 'Page Setup Dialogue box' launcher given in the Page setup menu. Now a dialogue box will appear on your screen, displaying various options regarding the Size, Height and Width for the Legal document page. These settings for the various dimensions can be changed by clicking on the drop down arrows given in front of the 'width' and 'Height' options that you would like to alter.Step # 3 - Using Page sourceSome printers have various trays according to the sizes of the pages being printed.
You can choose a specifc page source from the dialogue box that previously appeared on your screen. In this dialogue box there will be a tab labeled 'Paper' which you must select in order to make changes to the paper source.
Sometimes the first page is different from the others, and thus in such a case, you must make required changes using the 'Page Setup' dialogue box.In this case, we have chosen to use the 'default tray' as we have one slot for both papers. You can even now preview the changes you have made at the end of the Paper tab in the Page Setup dialogue box.