How To Split A Paper In Half Like A Book On Microsoft Office Word

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How to Split a Paper in Half Like a Book on Microsoft Office Word By Lily Medina Fact Checked Techwalla may earn compensation through affiliate links in this story. Learn more about our affiliate and product review process here. ... With this function, you can create folded-in-half booklets like this.

In Microsoft Word 2010, the advanced Margin options let you split each page in half, turning a horizontal page into two visually separate vertical pages. When you print the document and then fold the pages in half, they will form a booklet with left and right pages that you can thumb through as you would with a book. You can simply treat each half-page as a normal page, and Word will maintain a booklike format.

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Step 1

Open the Microsoft Word file that you want to format as a booklet. Click the "Page Layout" tab on the ribbon.

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Step 2

Click the "Orientation" button; on the drop-down menu, click "Landscape."

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Step 3

Click the "Margins" button; on the Margins menu that drops down, click "Custom Margins" to open the dialog box.

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Step 4

Click the drop-down field labeled "Multiple Pages" -- it probably shows "Normal" as its current option. On the drop-down menu, click "Book Fold."

Step 5

Click the "OK" button.

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references & resources
  • Microsoft Office: Create a Folded Booklet
  • Microsoft Office: Change or Set Page Margins
  • Microsoft Office: Print a Folded Booklet
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