How did letter paper come to be 8.5 x 11 inches in size? As part of our “I’ve Always Wondered” series, a listener asks why we’ve ended up with these arbitrary-seeming dimensions for office ...

How to Enlarge Pages in Microsoft Word. Microsoft Word's default page size is 8.5 by 11 inches, or "letter size," which is the most common size in American offices. But Word supports several other ...

At that size, they appear "the size of a typical mini console." But they can also be automatically scaled down to 8.5×11-inch letter-size paper, which makes them roughly "Barbie Doll scale." ...