How To Set A Left Gutter Margin

The left gutter setting can be combined with mirror margins as shown below.

How to set a left gutter margin.

The purpose is to modify the horizontal margin to allow for the binding of documents within a folder. Change the size for the top bottom left and right margins. But in addition to that margin you also want a gutter. 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.

Only adjust the gutter margin if you intend to use the document in a bound format like a book or report and you need space for the binding. Select set as default to set the new margin settings as the default for the current template. Word typically allows you to choose whether to position the gutter margin of your document at the top or left of the page. In the gutter box enter a width for the gutter margin.

This margin setting will be used in each new document you create based on that template. Type numbers indicating the width of your margins in the top bottom left and right fields. In such a case type a number in gutter that will allow enough room for the binding and use the drop down to indicate whether the binding will. In word there are two parts to setting up your gutter.

The gutter goes on the left side of right hand pages and on the right side of left hand pages. The gutter position box is not available and determined automatically when you use the mirror margins 2 pages per sheet or book fold option. Select layout margins custom margins. Gutter margins are adjustments made to horizontal positioning in addition to the standard left margin setting.

This accounts for the binding area. The adjustment is added to the left margin for the front face but subtracted from the left margin for the rear face of duplex pages. If you enable mirror margins with a top gutter setting it will be changed to left making it useless for duplex documents. In the gutter position box click left or top.