Reply To: margins in Indesign vs Microsoft Word

I think that David is likely right. Many office printers default to ‘Fit’ and will shrink the document’s pages so it will not be clipped by the area at the edges of the paper on which the printers cannot print. Of course, if you are typesetting letter-sized pages and printing at ‘Actual Size’ to letter-sized paper, the edges will be clipped. But, unless you have bleeds or text very close to the edge of the page, no one will notice.