Margins ensure your text isn t cut off during manufacturing.
Page margins gutter.
On the page layout tab in the page setup group click margins.
Let s take a 6 x 9 book as an example.
To set the gutter margin.
On the file menu click page setup and then click the margins tab.
In a facing pages layout word refers to this type of layout as mirror margins the gutter margin is on the very inside of both pages.
These two products have binding types that are clamped and held together with glue.
Set your page size before you set your margins.
The gutter margin is a typographical term used to designate an additional margin added to a page layout to compensate for the part of the paper made unusable by the binding process.
Mirror margins for facing pages.
If necessary select other options such as gutter gutter position or mirror margins.
The outside margin is the right hand margin on a right hand page.
For a typical novel or narrative nonfiction book of about 200 pages i would start off with an outside margin of 75 and a gutter margin of 875.
Documents with mixed orientation.
In effect a 1 inside margin combined with a 1 gutter is the same as a 2 inside margin.
See this chart to find your.
Gutter margins for binding.
A gutter margin adds extra space to the side margin top margin or inside margins of a document that you plan to bind to help ensure that text isn t obscured by binding.
Word typically allows you to choose whether to position the gutter margin of your document at the top or left of the page.
This process will cause a curve of the pages coming from the spine when the book is open.
Going around the page with margins.
Every page has three outside margins top bottom and side and one inside margin also called the gutter.
This is like a no man s land area where no text will appear.
Margin size depends on page count and on whether you have elements that bleed.
The gutter is used if you are going to have your book spiral bound.
See appropriate headings below for explanations on gutter and mirror margins.
Okay so we know the gutter or inside margin on bound books has to be larger than the outer margin but how much.
In the top bottom left and right boxes enter a desired measurement for the respective margin.
Other forms of binding.
If you enable mirror margins with a top gutter setting it will be changed to left making it useless for duplex documents.
Vice versa for left hand pages.
If you have previously set your document to the mirror margins book fold or two pages per sheet layout options word will automatically set the gutter margins to a position that matches the chosen layout.
The more pages in a book the more pronounced this effect and so the wider the gutter has to be.
The left gutter setting can be combined with mirror margins as shown below.
As the pages disappear towards the binding the edge of the page is obscured so the margin has to be wider on this edge to allow for this.
The inside margin is the left hand margin on a right hand page.