Margins Ignored on Mirrored Pages?

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Alfie

Hi,

I have a strange margins problem with Word 2000.

I am setting up a document on A5 paper. The printed output will be
double-sided and hole punched so I am using mirror margins to ensure a wider
margin on the punched side of the page. In Page Setup... my margins are set
as follows:

Inside: 2cm
Outside: 2.6cm

My Normal style has a left margin of 0.5cm.

On an odd numbered page the Normal style indents from the left margin of the
page by the appropriate amount (i.e. 0.5cm). However, on even numbered
pages the indent is ignored. Although the ruler at the top of the page
shows the left margin as being 0.5cm from the left edge of the page, the
actual text is coming out flush against the margin and not indented at all.

Can anyone offer any ideas as to what's going wrong?!

Cheers,

Alfie.
 
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Susan W. Gallagher

Uh, I think you've mirrored your mirrored margins! <g> Unless it's a typo, you've got you
Outside margin larger than your Inside margin and it's the Inside margin that's the boun
or punched edge (i.e., Inside is the left margin on an odd numbered or recto page an
the right margin on an even numbered or verso page). Try flipping your inside and
outside to see if that straightens things out

The alternative approach is to set both inside and outside margins to 2 cm and use a
..6 cm gutter

HTH
-Susan W. Gallaghe

----- Alfie wrote: ----

Hi

I have a strange margins problem with Word 2000

I am setting up a document on A5 paper. The printed output will b
double-sided and hole punched so I am using mirror margins to ensure a wide
margin on the punched side of the page. In Page Setup... my margins are se
as follows

Inside: 2c
Outside: 2.6c

My Normal style has a left margin of 0.5cm

On an odd numbered page the Normal style indents from the left margin of th
page by the appropriate amount (i.e. 0.5cm). However, on even numbere
pages the indent is ignored. Although the ruler at the top of the pag
shows the left margin as being 0.5cm from the left edge of the page, th
actual text is coming out flush against the margin and not indented at all

Can anyone offer any ideas as to what's going wrong?

Cheers

Alfie
 
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