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Margins Ignored on Mirrored Pages?
Hi,
I have a strange margins problem with Word 2000. I am setting up a document on A5 paper. The printed output will be double-sided and hole punched so I am using mirror margins to ensure a wider margin on the punched side of the page. In Page Setup... my margins are set as follows: Inside: 2cm Outside: 2.6cm My Normal style has a left margin of 0.5cm. On an odd numbered page the Normal style indents from the left margin of the page by the appropriate amount (i.e. 0.5cm). However, on even numbered pages the indent is ignored. Although the ruler at the top of the page shows the left margin as being 0.5cm from the left edge of the page, the actual text is coming out flush against the margin and not indented at all. Can anyone offer any ideas as to what's going wrong?! Cheers, Alfie. |
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Margins Ignored on Mirrored Pages?
Uh, I think you've mirrored your mirrored margins! g Unless it's a typo, you've got your
Outside margin larger than your Inside margin and it's the Inside margin that's the bound or punched edge (i.e., Inside is the left margin on an odd numbered or recto page and the right margin on an even numbered or verso page). Try flipping your inside and outside to see if that straightens things out. The alternative approach is to set both inside and outside margins to 2 cm and use a ..6 cm gutter. HTH! -Susan W. Gallagher ----- Alfie wrote: ----- Hi, I have a strange margins problem with Word 2000. I am setting up a document on A5 paper. The printed output will be double-sided and hole punched so I am using mirror margins to ensure a wider margin on the punched side of the page. In Page Setup... my margins are set as follows: Inside: 2cm Outside: 2.6cm My Normal style has a left margin of 0.5cm. On an odd numbered page the Normal style indents from the left margin of the page by the appropriate amount (i.e. 0.5cm). However, on even numbered pages the indent is ignored. Although the ruler at the top of the page shows the left margin as being 0.5cm from the left edge of the page, the actual text is coming out flush against the margin and not indented at all. Can anyone offer any ideas as to what's going wrong?! Cheers, Alfie. |
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