The exact answer to this one is lost in the foggy muck of tradition, but history gives us a few clues. Like a great many things, Americans borrowed industrial paper production techniques from the ...

Despite all the talk of the paperless office, for some reason most of us still seem to drown under piles of dead tree. But while we’re all intimately familiar with the stuff, understanding where those ...

The default document size in Microsoft Word is 8.5-by-11 inches -- regular letter paper. However, the paper size for any document can be changed, whether it's an existing document or a new document.