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.
Gutter position page layout.
At first choose the position.
The gutter will thus be set for the left hand side of every page.
Using the gutter control indicate how wide you want the gutter margin to be.
The gutter position box is not available when you use the mirror margins 2 pages per sheet or book fold option.
In some cases designers will use the terms gutter and alley interchangeably depending on the project.
Both have separate meanings.
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.
An alley is a space between columns of text on one page like in a newspaper.
Gutter versus alley.
In the gutter position box click left or top.
Word typically allows you to choose whether to position the gutter margin of your document at the top or left of the page.
To set the gutter margin.
Walk around the outside of the house with your design in hand.
Both are strips of white space the main difference is in size and location in regards to the page layout.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Check the elevation where each of the downspouts is coming down.
On the page layout tab in the page setup group click margins.
Set gutter position to left.
In the gutter box enter a width for the gutter margin.