It can be difficult to "grab" sometimes so you may need to Zoom in to make it easier and lay off the coffee before-hand :-) If the "ruler" isn't visible, you can make it visible from the "View" tab - just put a check-mark next to "Ruler". If your "ruler" is visible across the top and left side of the window, "grab" the the marker indicating where the applicable margin is and drag it to where you want it. You can also access "Page Setup" from the PRINT window when you're previewing your document. 3-On the "Margins" tab, manually change the (left) margins as necessary and make sure that "Apply to Whole document" is selected at the bottom. Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Before you change the margins, select the icon of the page you want to change in the pages pallet. 2-Open "Page Setup" (there should be a small arrow to access these settings to the right of the words "Page Setup"). Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. In the Table Options dialog that opens, use the spinners to incrementally change each of the four margins, or simply type in the margin that you want into each field Top, Bottom, Left or Right. Then click Cell Margins in the Alignment group. There are ideally 4 of them: Last Custom Settings, Normal, Wide and Narrow margins. To change the cell margins, we again click in the table and go to the Layout tab on the right. Under Page Layout, click on the Margins button, you will see different margin options. If not, here a couple of other options (I'm working from Word 2010 but other versions should be similar):ฤก-Select the "Page Layout" tab across the top of the window. You will see a range of operations available each of them consisting of several options. I'm not exactly sure where the problem exists but Danielle's response below should work.