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From: charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer)
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Subject: Re: Problem in Latex!!
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Date: 23 Jan 89 03:02:56 GMT
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In article <12464662464008@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu> 
TING-WEN@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Wen Ting) writes:
 
>	Does somebody know how to change the normal height and width
>	of the body of a page in an article style of Latex? So far,
>	I've 8-page output by report-style using two-column. However,
>	the place where my paper will be sent to recommends me to have
>	5-PAGE. Is there a way to reduce the number of pages of the 
>	output?

In the preamble (between \documentstyle{article} and \begin{document}) put

 \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0in}
 \setlength{\textwidth}{6.5in}
 \setlength{\topmargin}{0in}
 \setlength{\headheight}{0pt}
 \setlength{\textheight}{8.25in}

This gets about as much on an 8 1/2 by 11 page as LaTeX will do.  I doubt
it will get 8 pages of default format on 5 pages though.

Hope this helps.