how do I condense a two page letter to one page

[staples]

what is the procedure to use when a letter spills over onto a second page and
you want make it fit onto one page?

 

[Tom Willett]

Decrease the margins?
Make the fonts smaller?
Edit out some of the content?
Wave a magic wand?
: what is the procedure to use when a letter spills over onto a second page
and
: you want make it fit onto one page?

 

[Dave E]

To fit more text on the page:

* Make your margins smaller so the text area is larger
* Use a smaller font
* Turn on auto-hyphenation
* Look for lines with just one or two words and try to reword those
sentences to avoid wrapping to the next line
* Edit your letter and look for any unnecessary words.

The biggest space-wasters on your page are the lines with just one or two
words. Rewording those sentences or making your margins just a little
smaller will cut out those wasted line-wraps.

Think of it as a puzzle that you solve by simplifying your language
throughout your page. You "win" when it all fits.

 

[Yves Dhondt]

See http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP051886751033.aspx

Note that sometimes the outcome is better if you do it by hand by only
changing some small things like the width between paragraphs.

Yves

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/FitCopy.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org