Set margins size

[v-bulynkin]

Hello, how to set margins?

I try

$doc.Margins.Left = 1

but it doesn't work.

Can I set margins preset like 'Narrow'?

[PrzemyslawKlys]

document.Sections[0].SetMargins(WordMargin.Normal);

Sections[0] is basically the first section and it always exists.

document.Margins.Type = WordMargin.Narrow;

Should also work I guess. Also keep in mind that the values are kind of much larger.

[v-bulynkin]

Thank you!

Those works both in Powershell:

$doc.Margins.Type = 'Narrow'
# or
$doc.Sections[0].SetMargins('Narrow')

And how could I set only left margin, for example, 5cm?

$doc.Sections[0].SetMargins(5)

works, but I can't understand its logic because no one margin is not equal 5 afterwards.

I'm sorry for asking so many questions but there's no much information and examples in the OfficeIMO repository are not Powershell ones so it's difficult for me to learn from it.

[PrzemyslawKlys]

Don't worry. I don't even understand half of the stuff I wrote and even more how to understand the numbers.

• http://officeopenxml.com/WPSectionPgMar.php

According to docs the values are in twips or twentieths of a point

• https://www.unitconverters.net/length/twip-to-centimeter.htm

I am not sure you really want 5 cm?

Probably in OfficeIMO 2.0 someone will have to sit down and add some methods that allow setting margins and other things using similar way you can do it in Word. I was a bit too lazy to try and do it right away, especially that I am not fully sure if what I am doing makes sense ;)

[v-bulynkin]

Works with this crutch:

function ConvertTo-Twips {
param($cm)
$cm*567 -as [uint32]
}

$docFile = "C:\temp\doc.docx"
rm $docFile
$doc = New-OfficeWord -FilePath $docFile
$doc.PageSettings.PageSize = 'A4'
$doc.Settings.FontFamily = 'Times New Roman'
$doc.Settings.FontFamilyHighAnsi = 'Times New Roman'
$doc.Settings.FontSize = 11
$doc.Sections[0].Margins.Left = ConvertTo-Twips 5
$doc.Sections[0].Margins.Top = ConvertTo-Twips 7

New-OfficeWordText -Document $doc -Text "Hello world"

Save-OfficeWord -Document $doc -Show

[PrzemyslawKlys]

Cool, I'll see if this could be natively implemented to work with CM, but then I guess some people will want inches... and it never ends :)

[v-bulynkin]

It will probably demand to read from operating system's regional parameters. In the end, you'll write the second Word but for Powershell :)

[v-bulynkin]

Autodetect

function ConvertTo-Twips {
param($num)
    if ((New-Object System.Globalization.RegionInfo (get-culture).name).IsMetric) {
        $num*567 -as [uint32]
    }
    else {
        $num*1440 -as [uint32]
    }
}

[PrzemyslawKlys]

It has to be a bit more static. What if you as a developer are given must be 3 inches, but live in Europe.

[v-bulynkin]

function ConvertTo-Twips {
param($num)
    if ($num -match 'cm$') {
        (($num -replace '\D') -as [uint32])*567 
    }
    elseif ($num -match 'in$') {
        (($num -replace '\D') -as [uint32])*1440
    }
    else {
        Write-Host -fore red "Wrong units!"
    }
}