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Making a Booklet with Microsoft WordBeverly Pastizzo wrote asking how to use Word 2007 to create a 4-page booklet the size of a standard 8.5x11-inch sheet folded in half. This can be done by clicking Page Layout>Orientation>Landscape to display a standard 8.5x11-inch page horizonally. Next click Page Layout>Columns and choose 2 columns. Then click Page Layout>Margins to adjust the work-space size. To see a border around the work area, click Page Layout>Page Borders>Box. To hide the border click Page Layout>Page Borders>None. This establishes Page 4 and Page 1 of a four-page booklet. Printing the sheet's reverse side would generate Pages 2 and 3. Text Box Makes It Easier For even better control over margins, place a Text Box in each column by going to Insert>Text Box. Text boxes are easily reshaped by adjusting any edge or corner. When typing inside a Text Box most standard Word toolbar buttons are available, such as: B/I/U for bold/italic/underscore, along with Alignment Left, Right, and Center, etc. In fact, inserting Text Boxes at the outset could bypass creating the columns altogether. However, making Text Boxes stay in place has always been problematical in Word. Putting them inside columns is more reliable. Making a Booklet with Word 2003 (or earlier version) In pre-2007 versions of Word, you can set up such a booklet by clicking File>Page Setup>Landscape, followed by clicking Page Setup>Margins. Then click Format>Paragraph>Columns>2 Columns. Finally, click on Insert>Text Box. Depending on your version of Word, you may see a default pre-shaped box or you may see a small cross-shaped cursor with which to draw a box the approximate size and shape you want. Either box can be subsequently reshaped. You can also place images inside a Text Box, by clicking Insert>Picture and following the prompts. Moving pictures around on a page is easier when they are contained in Text Boxes. Double-clicking the picture will bring up an image-editing dialog box. Double-clicking an edge of a Text Box will bring up options for having text flow around, behind, or in front of a picture, along with offering the choice of having the box's outline be show or hidden. Word 'Tables' Can Make It Easier Yet An alternative to using columns and/or text boxes is to use Word Tables. The columns mentioned above are meant to have text begin at the top of the left-hand column and to flow automatically into the right-hand column when the first is full. However, establishing a two-column, one-row Word Table would allow you to type into either column, along with inserting pictures. Click on Insert>Table and choose two columns wide by one row deep. This will establish a double-column Table that that fills the page left-to-right, but which appears only tall enough for a single line of text in each in each column. However, Word Tables automatically expand downward as text is added. Table cells also allow normal text-editing options, except for the TAB key, which moves your cursor from one cell to another. |