#HOW DO I SET UP THE PAGES FOR PRINTING A BOOKLET IN WORD PLUS#
This means you have equal margin space on the left and right sides of your document, plus extra space for when all the pages get bound together so you don’t have to ‘break’ the spine of the book. The gutter measurement allows us to set extra space on the bound side. For a normal book printed and bound in the UK, Europe, USA and many other countries, this will be on the left-hand side. This is a term used in the printing industry which describes the side on which a book will be bound. We then have the option of setting the gutter and the gutter position. When we set this up in Microsoft Word it will be 1.8cm left and right and 1.5cm top and bottom. We are going to choose margin sizes of 18mm for the left and right and 15mm for the top and bottom. You will find that many books will be different, you just need to choose the right size for your book. There are a few other factors to consider but the best advice we have given our customers is to have a look at other books which are like yours and simply measure the margins. The margin size you will want will depend on a few different factors Microsoft Word – Page MarginĪs standard Word will set the margins to 1″ / 2.54cm. The paper source we will leave as default for now.Īfter we have filled out the height of 19.8 cm’s and the width of 12.9 cm’s and selected to apply to the whole document, it is time to move on to the next part, the margins. You will need to check if your document is in mm’s, cm’s, inches etc. As my word document measurements are in cm’s we will fill this out accordingly.
In our case, we want a book 198mm high x 129mm wide.
Under paper size, you want to click the drop-down box and select custom size and then fill out the width and height of the finished paper size you want. This will bring up another window where we can input our own custom size. To change the page size, we go to Layout > Size > More Paper Sizes… If you are struggling to find a page size that you think is suitable for your book, then head over to our other post for more information – Hardback and Paperback Book Sizes. Today we will format a B-Format book at 198mm high x 129mm wide. There are plenty of sizes to choose from and it is something that will need a lot of thinking. Word can offer you various templates to use but you ideally want to start with a blank document and format your book to your own specification.Īfter we have chosen our blank document it is time to choose the page size. You will find that properly designed printing gutter margin reduces the risk of losing content between the curve of the pages.We will start with a blank document and set our page size and margins. To fix this problem, we always recommend proper book gutter margins. If content, such as important images and text, is left too close to the spine, this content can be lost or hidden due to the curve of the pages. These products “lay flat” and no content is lost in the “curve” of the page. Note: Other forms of print binding, such as saddle stitch booklet printing, wire o binding, and spiral binding, do not add any book gutter. This process will create a “curve” of the paper coming from the spine when the book is open. These two products have binding types that are clamped and set with glue. So what is the gutter in printing?Ī page gutter is the space on the page that leads into the binding of perfect bound books and hardcover books. After all the hard work and time that you’ve put into the design of your perfect bound book or hardcover book as an author, it would be a giant disappointment if you receive the printed product with text and other content lost in the binding! You can prevent this disappointment by understanding what a book gutter is before going to press.
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