To set up the page margins

  1. From the Page menu A list of available commands and actions in Publisher. Menu names are displayed in the menu bar at the top of the Publisher window., select Margins & Column Guides. The Page dialog box A window used to supply information to Publisher. appears with the Margins & Columns tab card selected.

  2. In the Margins group box, type the width you want each of the margins The white space surrounding the text area of a page. to be.

  3. In the Headers and Footers group box, type the space you want the headers Text that appears at the top of the page. Publisher has standard header frames that appear at the top of the page, ready for you to add information into. and footers Text that appears at the bottom of the page. Publisher has standard footer frames that appear at the bottom of the page, ready for you to add information into. to be from the top and bottom of the page.

  4. From the Apply To drop-down list box, select which pages of the document The combination of text and pictures. Also called a Publisher DTP file. you want to apply the margins to.

  5. Click on OK.

Note:

The binding margin Extra space added to the side of a printed page to allow for punching or binding: usually the left-hand side of a right page and the right-hand side of a left page. The white space surrounding the text area of a page. is the space left at the edge of the page that will be bound, ensuring that none of the items on the page are obscured when the document is bound.

Any margin given to the edge of the page that will be bound is added to the binding margin i.e. if the binding margin is 1 cm and the edge margin is 2 cm, a space of 3 cm is left between the edge of the page and the edge of the column guide Dotted lines displayed on screen that can be used to help position frames on the page. Column guides are not printed..

You can use the up and down arrows on the boxes to select the margin widths.