On the page layout tab in the page setup group click margins.
Gutter position page layout.
Set the value in gutter to the desired size.
Normal is used for single sheet layout and mirror margins is used for facing pages layout if you specified normal in step 4 use the gutter position control to indicate whether the gutter should be added to the left or top edges of the page.
In the gutter box enter a width for the gutter margin.
Word typically allows you to choose whether to position the gutter margin of your document at the top or left of the page.
Set gutter position to left.
Gutter versus alley.
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.
Click the page layout tab on the microsoft word ribbon and then select margins click custom margins at the bottom of the pop up window to open the page setup menu.
To set the gutter margin.
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In some cases designers will use the terms gutter and alley interchangeably depending on the project.
Using the gutter control indicate how wide you want the gutter margin to be.
For that expand the gutter position drop down menu and select left or top as almost everyone binds a page from either left or top word offers only these two options.
But on 9 mar 2010 book page layout for a long narrative you wrote you want to keep the inside margin the one in the gutter or at the binding smaller than the outside because when the book is held open this will essentially double in size combining the inside margins of both pages in a space in the middle of the book please clarify.
Walk around the outside of the house with your design in hand.
An alley is a space between columns of text on one page like in a newspaper.
The gutter will thus be set for the left hand side of every page.
Check the elevation where each of the downspouts is coming down.
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.
In the gutter position box click left or top.
Both are strips of white space the main difference is in size and location in regards to the page layout.
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.