This is like a no man s land area where no text will appear.
Page margins gutter.
If necessary select other options such as gutter gutter position or mirror margins.
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.
See appropriate headings below for explanations on gutter and mirror margins.
Mirror margins for facing pages.
Other forms of binding.
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.
Vice versa for left hand pages.
See this chart to find your.
Let s take a 6 x 9 book as an example.
This process will cause a curve of the pages coming from the spine when the book is open.
The inside margin is the left hand margin on a right hand page.
The outside margin is the right hand margin on a right hand page.
The gutter is used if you are going to have your book spiral bound.
Word typically allows you to choose whether to position the gutter margin of your document at the top or left of the page.
A gutter is the section of the page that leads into the binding of perfect bound books and hard cover books.
Margins ensure your text isn t cut off during manufacturing.
Gutter margins for binding.
In the top bottom left and right boxes enter a desired measurement for the respective margin.
To set the gutter margin.
In effect a 1 inside margin combined with a 1 gutter is the same as a 2 inside margin.
So what is a gutter margin.
Going around the page with margins.
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.
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.
This creates a gutter where the two pages join.
Documents with mixed orientation.
On the file menu click page setup and then click the margins tab.
Every page has three outside margins top bottom and side and one inside margin also called the gutter.
The more pages in a book the more pronounced this effect and so the wider the gutter has to be.
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.
The left gutter setting can be combined with mirror margins as shown below.
On the page layout tab in the page setup group click margins.
Okay so we know the gutter or inside margin on bound books has to be larger than the outer margin but how much.
If you enable mirror margins with a top gutter setting it will be changed to left making it useless for duplex documents.
