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Default Mirrored Gutters in Landscape Mode, for Binding on "Long" Edge

Suzanne,

Has anyone come up with a workaround for this problem? I'm currently
facing the same issue as you discussed here in 2001.

I have an approximately 100-sheet (200-page) book in landscape mode. I
want to bind it along the "long" edge such that the user, when flipping
pages away from him, will first see page 1, then page 2 above page 3,
then page 4 above page 5, etc. So what I need is gutters at the top of
odd pages and at the bottom of even pages.

I can't make Word 2002 accomplish this. It will mirror odd/even
gutters on left/right in landscape mode, but not on top/bottom.

best regards,

Marty Jones

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
The problem is not with a landscape book (Word handles that the same as an
entirely portrait book) but with landscape sections in an otherwise portrait
layout. And I have read that there are some interesting NEW problems with
handling of the gutter in Word 2000 (or maybe this was one of the things I
experimented with during the 10 minutes or so that Word 2000 was installed
on my machine g).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft Word MVP
Words into Type
Fairhope, AL USA

Beth Melton wrote in message
news:#zaDS6omAHA.1416@tkmsftngp03...
Hi Suzanne,

I must confess that I had to locate a landscape book to grasp the full
understanding of the *real* problem. lol

Thanks for the insight Suzanne!
~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Please post replies/further questions to the newsgroup so that all may
benefit.

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote in message ...
|The problem is that Word assumes you're going to put the top of all
|landscape pages to the center, that is, on the right side of verso
pages and
|the left side of recto pages. But that's not the conventional
treatment of
|landscape pages in portrait documents; instead, the top is always to
the
|left so that if you rotate the book a quarter turn, you can read
|continuously from top to bottom. Even Word 2000 still doesn't get
this
|right.
|
|--
|Suzanne S. Barnhill
|Microsoft Word MVP
|Words into Type
|Fairhope, AL USA
|
|Beth Melton wrote in message
|news:#h7BSUimAHA.1920@tkmsftngp04...
| Hi Wayne,
|
| Are you sure that the mirror margins and gutter margins isn't
working
| for Landscape?
|
| I don't have any problem with it. Maybe you can expand on what
isn't
| working.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~
| Beth Melton
| Microsoft Office MVP
|
| Please post replies/further questions to the newsgroup so that all
may
| benefit.
|
| Wayne Mery wrote in message ...
| |What are appropriate ways (if any) to do double sided landscape (3
| holed
| |paper) printing and set an appropriate margin on the front and
back
| side
| |of the paper?
| |
| |gutter only works for single sided printing.
| |mirror doesn't seem to do the trick in landscape mode (but does
work
| as
| |advertised for portrait).
| |
| |I'm using word 2000 + win98
| |
| |Hoping the solution is simple. g
| |
| |Thanks
| |Wayne
|
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