In the top bottom left and right boxes enter a desired measurement for the respective margin.
Page margins gutter.
Set your page size before you set your margins.
So what is a gutter margin.
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.
This is like a no man s land area where no text will appear.
The left gutter setting can be combined with mirror margins as shown below.
Let s take a 6 x 9 book as an example.
See appropriate headings below for explanations on gutter and mirror margins.
On the file menu click page setup and then click the margins tab.
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.
To set the gutter margin.
Margins ensure your text isn t cut off during manufacturing.
Mirror margins for facing pages.
This creates a gutter where the two pages join.
The gutter is used if you are going to have your book spiral bound.
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.
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.
Documents with mixed orientation.
If you enable mirror margins with a top gutter setting it will be changed to left making it useless for duplex documents.
On the page layout tab in the page setup group click margins.
Word typically allows you to choose whether to position the gutter margin of your document at the top or left of the page.
The more pages in a book the more pronounced this effect and so the wider the gutter has to be.
The inside margin is the left hand margin on a right hand page.
Other forms of binding.
Vice versa for left hand pages.
These two products have binding types that are clamped and held together with glue.
A gutter is the section of the page that leads into the binding of perfect bound books and hard cover books.
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.
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.
If necessary select other options such as gutter gutter position or mirror margins.
This process will cause a curve of the pages coming from the spine when the book is open.
Gutter margins for binding.
Margin size depends on page count and on whether you have elements that bleed.
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.
