How To Create A Booklet Using Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word help surprises you with the list of features and functions it provides. When you think of booklets, a stack of stapled papers usually comes to your mind. A booklet can be of any type. A small catalog of products is a booklet when it comes to business. Many colleges have booklets about their different courses and academic offerings. You can avoid much effort by creating a booklet using Microsoft Word.

Microsoft Word helps you in creating a booklet from an existing or blank document. There are special templates in Word and when you select a particular booklet setting, it will change the document properties automatically so that you can print a professional looking booklet.

Instructions 

• Launch Microsoft Word and open a New blank document. 
• From the File menu, select Page Setup to open the Page Setup dialog box. Check if the Margins tab is selected or else click the Margins tab to select it. 
• Go to the Multiple pages drop-down menu to select the Book fold option. This automatically changes the margin alignment of Left and Right to Inside and Outside. 
• Next, bring your Gutter to 0 and change the page orientation to Landscape. 
• Now you will have to enter new measurements for the Inside and Outside margins. The Inside margin indicates the space between the text and the edge of the page on the inside of the booklet. The Outside margin is similarly the space between the edge of your page and the text on the outside page. This is the amount of space you want for the Inside and Outside margins. 
• You can adjust the space along the fold to accommodate binding. You can increase the amount of Gutter in the Gutter box. 
• You can choose the number of pages you want to include in your booklet in the Sheets per booklet list. Keep in mind that if you have more number of pages in the document than the pages in the booklet, Word prints the document as multiple booklets (if the default number of pages is set to 16, anything more than this will be printed as additional booklets). 
• You can select any other options in the Page Setup dialog box. 
• You can add text, graphics and headers or footers like any other documents. 
• Click OK button to finally change your document to a booklet. 

Try to create a booklet as a new document so that you can place the booklet elements appropriately. Go through the Microsoft Word help menu for more assistance if needed.