adjusting print
 

I'm fairly new to Word.

I have a form that has a lot of space on the top, bottom, sides, and I need to make it print bigger.

In Excel, you can adjust the scaling by percentage, but Word doesn't seem to have that. How can I print the form to where it fills the whole page?

You can select all and increase the font size or modify the Style.
You can decrease margins and or change indents.

Basic Formatting in Microsoft Word
Basic Concepts of Microsoft Word - from Shauna Kelly

By the way, top, bottom and side spaces are usually referred to as margins.

That won't work.

The form has an image, tables, and multiple fonts of varying sizes.

Then, you have the privilege of resizing each element separately.

You can select all and increase the font size using that button on the Home tab in the font group.

The form was exported from PDF, so the format is really odd, and your suggestion would involve a lot of work. Thanks, but no thanks.

I'm really amazed at Microsoft for not noticing this glaring flaw in Word.

This is not a glaring flaw in Word which is a word processing program, not a page layout program. It may well be something you and others might like to see. I suspect it would involve a major rewrite and cause loss of word processing functions that many value.

The problem lies in using a converted/scanned file as the basis for a Word document. Such conversions are usually quite good at producing something in a Word file that looks like the original. However, it is not a document structured the way it would be produced in Word. Such a document is more often than not a nightmare to edit.

Generally, if I need to make more than minor revisions to such a document I end up recreating it, often using text from the conversion without any formatting.

You might try cropping the original pdf. Then print to pdf scaling it, then converting to Word if needed.