Two sets of margins for a single page

Question

Does anyone know how to change the marins of a document midpage? IE a header has .5 inch margins but the text itself has only 1 inch margins?

Answer 1

You can change the margins for small pieces of text (not spreading over more than a page, usually) using the changepage package. E.g.,

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{changepage,lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{adjustwidth*}{4cm}{2cm}
\lipsum[2]
\end{adjustwidth*}
\lipsum[3]
\end{document}

The changepage package has some more features for adjusting more of the textblock, but if it's the entire page that you want to change, the latest version of the geometry package provides this somewhat more conveniently. Here's an example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{geometry,lipsum}
\geometry{margin=4cm}
\begin{document}
\lipsum
\clearpage
\newgeometry{margin=1cm}
\lipsum
\clearpage
\restoregeometry
\lipsum
\end{document}