retrospectively apply different margin to r and l page

[Nicky H]

Is there any way to retrospectively apply different margins to r & l pages of
a large document (80 odd pages already) - the publication will be bound in
such a way that this is necessary. If so as the margins change is there
an easy way to ensure that everything else on the page will move with the
margin?

 

[Mary Sauer]

You might be better off saving the document as a Word file. Then import the text
back into Publisher with the new margins. Create a text box, right-click, click
change text, click text file, browse to the file you just made.

If you don't want to do that, try this:

Are the text boxes linked from page to page?

Create a new publication with the margins arranged the way you prefer. Insert a
text box. If the publication is a booklet, create the text box on the first page
you want text to appear.

In your 80+ page publication, break the link on the first page (the text will
still be there). With your cursor in the text box, Edit, Select All (ctrl+A).
Copy.

Go to the new publication, place your cursor in the text box, paste. Publisher
will automatically create new pages and text boxes.

A long document like this would be better done in Word. It is more flexible.

 

[Nicky H]

You might be better off saving the document as a Word file. Then import the text
back into Publisher with the new margins. Create a text box, right-click, click
change text, click text file, browse to the file you just made.

If you don't want to do that, try this:

Are the text boxes linked from page to page?

Create a new publication with the margins arranged the way you prefer. Insert a
text box. If the publication is a booklet, create the text box on the first page
you want text to appear.

In your 80+ page publication, break the link on the first page (the text will
still be there). With your cursor in the text box, Edit, Select All (ctrl+A).
Copy.

Go to the new publication, place your cursor in the text box, paste. Publisher
will automatically create new pages and text boxes.

A long document like this would be better done in Word. It is more flexible.
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Thanks for that. I have used publisher (on advice from friends) as I ultimately need to convert it to PDF and also it is predominantly pictures around which i have lots of borders. This is the first time I have used publisher and on getting it I also ended up with Word 2007 with which I am not familiar either. (Used to the previous version). I decided that I would manually adjust all the even page margins, then using select all nudge everything into place, page bu page - however having just tried this - I went to single page view, changed the margins, but it did both l and r pages.

Any further suggestions would be gratefully received.
Regards
Nicky

 

[Mary Sauer]

Use the grid guides for your margins. You drag them from the ruler. They will
not behave the way the arrange margins will but they will show the boundaries.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Use the grid guides for your margins. You drag them from the ruler. They will
not behave the way the arrange margins will but they will show the boundaries.

Just to clarify; guides you drag from the rulers are (imaginatively)
Ruler Guides. Grid guides are those you set as subdivisions of the
margin guides in Arrange > Layout Guides.