Adjust settings for format, page layout, line spacing, and other style requirements.

“Adjust settings for format, page layout, line spacing, and other style requirements.” is a core task performed by Word Processors and Typists. Among the occupation's 20 rated tasks, workers place it 4th by importance (#17 most important). About 92% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Process digital or online data. in Working with Computers

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 1.00. Automation potential label: T4.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Perform other clerical duties, such as answering telephone, sorting and distributing mail, running errands or sending faxes. · importance 4.4
• Check completed work for spelling, grammar, punctuation, and format. · importance 4.3
• File and store completed documents on computer hard drive or disk, or maintain a computer filing system to store, retrieve, update, and delete documents. · importance 4.2
• Print and make copies of work. · importance 4.2
• Transmit work electronically to other locations. · importance 4.1
• Address envelopes or prepare envelope labels, using typewriter or computer. · importance 4.0
• Gather, register, and arrange the material to be typed, following instructions. · importance 4.0
• Type correspondence, reports, text and other written material from rough drafts, corrected copies, voice recordings, dictation, or previous versions, using a computer, word processor, or typewriter. · importance 4.0
• Compute and verify totals on report forms, requisitions, or bills, using adding machine or calculator. · importance 4.0
• Manage schedules and set dates, times, and locations for meetings and appointments. · importance 3.9
• Keep records of work performed. · importance 3.9
• Electronically sort and compile text and numerical data, retrieving, updating, and merging documents as required. · importance 3.8
• Search for specific sets of stored, typed characters to make changes. · importance 3.8
• Collate pages of reports and other documents. · importance 3.7

See all tasks on the Word Processors and Typists page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-802,
  title  = {Adjust settings for format, page layout, line spacing, and other style requirements.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-802}
}