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Stencil line for writing on a plain sheet. Zebra for writing A4: Ready-made templates, Preparing the Zebra stencil yourself

It is quite difficult to write exactly on ordinary office paper, since the sheets do not have rulers and margins. An excellent way out for a schoolboy or student will be stencils with bold lines. Such a Zebra for writing is placed under a sheet of paper and it becomes easy to write, like in a school notebook.

Ready templates

Zebra letter A4

Zebra in PDF format The link opens in a browser. If you want to print the document right away, click on the printer icon in the upper right corner of the tab. The next button with an arrow launches a window for downloading a file.

Zebra lettering A4 with margins

If the finished manuscript needs to be filed in a folder, you will need to leave a certain size margin on the left side. Thanks to the extra line on the left side of the stencil, the indents will be the same on every line.

Preparing the Zebra Stencil on Your Own

Templates in DOC and RTF formats can be edited, for example, in Word program. Or you can create a completely different Zebra by tweaking the stencil to your own requirements.

Click right click mouse on the desktop, create a new Word file and open it.
On the Insert tab, click on the Table button and click on the cell marked with an arrow in the figure. The page will create a table with two columns and four rows.
Go to the Page Layout tab and adjust the margins (tips in the screenshot). Here you can also change the orientation of the document, if necessary.
Place the cursor on the vertical line. Press the left mouse button and, without releasing it, move the line to the right or to the left. This way you set the column borders as desired.
Select the entire table. According to the hints from this picture, set the display mode to display only internal borders.
Set the required

To write evenly on white sheets, it is enough to put a special stencil under the bottom - a zebra. This is a sheet of A4 paper on which bold horizontal lines are printed. You can buy a zebra in a store, or you can print it yourself. You can download such a stencil for free at the end of the article.

Why do we need a zebra

When an essay, term paper or thesis written on A4 sheets with or without frames, it is very difficult to keep the same indentation, and even more so to write by hand clearly horizontally. At one time, pupils and students, when there was no time to draw a zebra on their own, measured the same distance between lines, put exactly a stack of sheets, and punched each line with a needle. Then, a little faster than marking, barely visible lines were drawn under the ruler with a simple pencil. Then I also had to erase the pencil lines after the written work. But it was best to draw, with a black pen or a felt-tip pen, a special stencil, which is called a zebra, and write under it. But a hand-drawn zebra is not always accurate; it is better to print such a stencil on thick paper. This is what we suggest you download.

Download stencil zebra with fields

Download zebra pattern in A4 format

The distance between the lines of this zebra is 0.7 cm. The fields are as follows:

top - 2.9 cm;
bottom - 2.3 cm;
left - 3 cm;
right - 1.8 cm;

Line thickness - 1.3 mm

Download zebra borderless stencil

Download zebra A4 format

For those who write on sheets with frames, which is most often, it is necessary to print a zebra without margins, since it is only important for you to observe the distance between the lines, and the frame on the sheet itself will tell you you need a margin on one side or another. The characteristics of this zebra are identical to the previous one.

Notebooks with lined sheets naturally evoke in us associations about school years. However, the template of a lined or checkered sheet made in text editor MS Word can come in handy not only for calligraphy lessons, but also for a host of other things when you have to “work” not only with the keyboard, but also with an ordinary ballpoint pen. Writing an application form by hand, making a sheet for a homemade notebook, and similar actions - you see, it’s much easier if the sheet is also equipped with a “ruler” that simplifies handwritten “data entry”.

Three types of sheet rulers: lined, lined and oblique lined. Today we will learn how to do all three types in MS Word

Today I will tell you about how to make a template of a lined sheet in A4 format. We will work, of course, in the MS Word text editor. Also, in addition to the lesson, at the end of the article you can download ready-to-print MS Word sheet ruler templates in a ruler and a cage. Forward!

Making a lined A4 sheet in MS Word

Let's create an empty MS Word document and save it as a template to any convenient place on your computer. let's move on to the "Insert" tab and in the group tables»Use a well-known tool "Insert Table".

In the window that appears, set the following parameters:

Number of columns: 1 (strictly 1).
Number of cells: more (30-50 is fine).

Click "OK" and see what happens. As you can see, the contours of the future ruler line are already visible, although, of course, it is still too early to send the document for printing.

Let's go to Layout tab(it is active if the table we inserted earlier is selected), and in Cell Size group Let's increase the spacing between the lines of our ruler. I will expose height lines of 1 centimeter, if you have a sweeping handwriting, you can make it bigger, but do not overclock too much - a height of 1.5 cm is already too much.

Set the spacing between lined lines

If you use the default MS Word template, then it also makes sense to change them - they may be suitable for a printed document, but for a handwritten one they are too big. Just stretch the rulers to the desired size in height and width and move on.

Turn on rulers in the text editor if you haven't already done so

By the way - if you do not see the rulers, most likely they are simply disabled. Go to the "View" tab and check the appropriate box. Rulers will immediately appear in their rightful places!

Well, let's finish the work on the ruler of our sheet into a ruler:

select the entire previously created table, right-click and select "Table Properties".
in the window that appears, on the first tab, click the "Borders and Shading" button.
turn off the display of the side frames of the table by clicking on the appropriate icons and click on "OK". Since there is only one column in our table, after this operation, only the ruler should remain on the document sheet - horizontal lines going one above the other, just like in a school notebook.

Creating a Linear Document Ruler in MS Word

Almost everything is ready!

If you print our lined A4 sheet right now, the result may not please you - the lines will be barely visible. If you're going to use the ruler as "reference lines" when writing a letter, then that's even better, but if you want to make the lines clearer, you need to take one extra step.

Select the entire table again, right-click on it and go to "Table Properties", and then to "Borders and Shading".

By setting the color and thickness of the lines, you can make the sheet line almost invisible or very noticeable.

Here, in the "Width" field, change standard value 0.5 pt by 1.5 pt (at least 1 pt). Do not rush to click "OK", first "curse" the desired lines with the mouse in the explanatory figure in the "Sample" block for the changes to take effect. And now, feel free to click "OK" and admire the result - it will be hard not to notice such a line when printing a lined sheet!

The final result is a lined sheet of A4 format. Below you can download this document template for free.

Download a lined A4 sheet template for printing

Lined sheet A4 in a cage in MS Word

We figured out the line in the line, now it's time to move on to the ruler of the sheet in a cage- the same one, as in a notebook on mathematics or on sheets notebook. In fact, the principle here is the same, just slightly different methods of work.

We create new document MS Word and save it to disk. Let's move on to the "Insert" tab and choose Insert Table tool.

Table settings for creating an A4 sheet lined in a cage

In the window that appears, set the values (provided that the margins of the document are slightly reduced compared to the default size - for example, I set margins of 2 cm on the left and 1 cm on the right and above and 1.5 below):

Number of columns: 36 .
Number of cells: 52 .

We press "OK" and we see a "fine-grained" table covering part of the sheet.

Set the cell size of the lined sheet

Now let's adjust the size of the cells - select the inserted table, go to to the Layout tab and forcibly set the size of the cells in height and width by one value: 0.5 cm (2 cells of the standard ruler are equal to one centimeter).

Now everything is ready - you can safely send our page lined in a cage for printing!

Change the color of the sheet line to gray to look more like a classic

p.s. If after printing it turns out that the cells on the sheet are too dark, just change the color of the table lines. To do this, go to "Borders and Shading" again and in the "" Color "field, specify one of the shades of gray. The final line of the sheet will look completely “according to the notebook”.

Ready lined sheet created in MS Word. Below you can download the template of this sheet in DOC format

Download a template of a lined A4 sheet for printing

Ruler sheet A4 in an oblique ruler

…not good news: standard means create a ruler in an oblique cell, there is no way in MS Word. However, there would be a desire!

The first thing to do is to line the A4 sheet in a text editor in the way we already know, but only the distance between the individual ruler lines should be smaller. For example, I set the line height to 0.8 cm instead of 1 cm.

Creating a sheet line in an oblique ruler in a Word is neither simple nor intuitive

And now let's work a little with the handles: move the mouse cursor over the third line from the top, press and hold the left mouse button and drag it down a little. Between the 2nd and 3rd line of our ruler, thus, a free space(its height is approximately 1.5 cm). We will also precisely shift a little down every third line of the ruler and we will end up with a lined sheet similar to what I got.

Now the most interesting thing: the oblique ruler is called oblique because, in addition to the horizontal lines of the ruler, it also has diagonal lines crossing the sheet from top to bottom, the very ones that help the child not to forget about the slope of the letters when writing.

By the way, have you ever wondered what is the angle of inclination of the lines when lined into an oblique ruler? It turns out that it is strictly defined by the standard and exactly corresponds to 65 degrees (more precisely, 25 degrees, because we are looking at the sheet from below!). It is these diagonals that we will draw in our template.

And now just draw a slanting ruler!

On panel "Insert" choose shape tool and specify the type of tool: Line.

Now let's draw a long line on the sheet strictly vertically (hold shift) and double-click to activate its settings.

On the Format tab, in the Arrange group, select the Rotate tool, and select More Rotate Options.

In the opened window "AutoShape Format" in field "Turn" indicate desired value: 25 degrees, and click OK. The line will acquire the desired “oblique” slope, by the way, its ideal height for a standard MS Word sheet should be 29 centimeters.

Set the slope of the oblique line

Well, that's all, it remains to copy the line the required number of times and evenly distribute it over the sheet, while not forgetting to adjust the size of the lines in height so that they do not crawl out of the main sheet line. Congratulations, your A4 oblique ruler created completely in MS Word is completely ready!