Unless your professor specifies something else, use 1-inch margins on every side of the page for an MLA Style paper.

To set 1 inch margins in Microsoft Word:

1. Click the Layout tab
2. Click the Margins drop-down menu
3. Select Normal 
4. Go to the Paragraph section and in the Spacing After box, click the down arrow to reduce spacing after each paragraph to 0 pt

To set 1 inch margins in Google Docs:

1. Click File
2. Click Page setup
3. In the Margins section of the popup window, enter 1 in the boxes under Top, Bottom, Left, and Right
4. Click OK

MLA formatting requires that the entire text of a paper be double-spaced, including quotations, notes, and the Works Cited list. This includes the first page, including the headers.

How to double space text in Microsoft Word:

1. Select your text by clicking and dragging or by using the Select > Select All feature
2. Making sure you are on the Home tab, go to the Paragraph section and click on the Line and Paragraph Spacing menu
3. Click 2.0

How to double space text in Google Docs:

1. Select your text by clicking and dragging or using the Edit > Select All feature
2. Click the Ling & Paragraph Spacing menu
3. Click Double