| Microsoft Word is the world's most frequently used | | | | drop-down menu. Here are your options: |
| word processor with pretty good page layout | | | | - NORMAL creates a single type of page, with the |
| functions. It's installed on a great majority of home and | | | | same margins and gutters, headers and footers. All |
| business computers in every country. So it makes | | | | pages of the document will look exactly the same. |
| sense for you as a freelance technical writer to learn | | | | - MIRROR MARGINS creates left and right pages with |
| how to design a document template in Word. | | | | margins "mirroring" each other. That is, margins will be |
| First create your margins and other basic page layout | | | | on the OUTER edge of each page. |
| features. | | | | - 2 PAGES PER SHEET creates two small equal-size |
| Select File > New from the main menu and create a | | | | pages out of the "normal size" page. For |
| blank Word document. | | | | portrait-orientation pages, two smaller landscape pages |
| Select File > Page Setup to display the Page Setup | | | | are created. For landscape-orientation pages, two |
| dialog box. | | | | smaller portrait pages are created. |
| Select your Page Orientation (Portrait vs. Landscape). | | | | - BOOK FOLD creates a "spread" (a single page unit) |
| Set your Top, Bottom, Right, and Left margins. The | | | | out of 2 or multiples-of-2 pages. Your choices are All, |
| default values look good but you can change them to | | | | 4, 8, 12, and 16 pages to a spread. |
| anything you want. | | | | In the Preview box, select from the drop-down list how |
| Set your Gutter dimension and position. Gutter is the | | | | many pages these page layout features should apply |
| blank non-text area to the LEFT or TOP of your text | | | | to. |
| area. A lot of book-format documents leave a gutter | | | | - WHOLE DOCUMENT applies the page setup values |
| to the left for ease of reading. Experiment with | | | | to every page in the document. |
| different gutter widths and see which one you like | | | | - THIS POINT FORWARD applies the changes from |
| better; or set it to the width specified by your | | | | where you are in the document to the end. |
| Documentation Guideline (if you have one). | | | | Click the DEFAULT button to reset all values to their |
| Select a value for "Multiple Pages" from the | | | | default values. |