Page Layout ⇒ Change Document Paper Size to Letter

[Kuo000]

Hi all,

I am a complete newbie to LaTeX and this forum. I was trying to create a letter size article document to start my work there. But despite explicit option [letterpaper] I put, the document still turned out to be A4-sized.

Here is my entire LaTeX code (which can hardly be any simpler):

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\documentclass[letterpaper,10pt]{article}

\begin{document}
Hello World!
\end{document}

BTW, I use a Windows 7 machine with MiKTeX 2.9 (64bit) and Texmaker as my editor. I even changed the default paper format to "LetterSize" in MikTeX settings, but it didn't seem to help. Can someone give me a hand?

Great thanks.

[localghost]

Very astonishing that the MiKTeX Settings don't help here. So try the geometry package. It will write information to the resulting output which should fix the issue.

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\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}

\begin{document}
  Hello World!
\end{document}

For further setup of paper and page dimensions refer to the package manual.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[Kuo000]

Thank you localghost.

This sets my document to letter-size.