Technical Writing - How to Design Your Page Margins in a Microsoft Word Document Template (1)?

Microsoft Word is the world's most frequently used word processor with pretty good page layout functions.
It's installed on a great majority of home and business computers in every country.
So it makes sense for you as a freelance technical writer to learn how to design a document template in Word.
First create your margins and other basic page layout features.
Select File > New from the main menu and create a blank Word document.
Select File > Page Setup to display the Page Setup dialog box.
Select your Page Orientation (Portrait vs.
Landscape).
Set your Top, Bottom, Right, and Left margins.
The default values look good but you can change them to anything you want.
Set your Gutter dimension and position.
Gutter is the blank non-text area to the LEFT or TOP of your text area.
A lot of book-format documents leave a gutter to the left for ease of reading.
Experiment with different gutter widths and see which one you like better; or set it to the width specified by your Documentation Guideline (if you have one).
Select a value for "Multiple Pages" from the drop-down menu.
Here are your options:

• NORMAL creates a single type of page, with the same margins and gutters, headers and footers.
  All pages of the document will look exactly the same.
  
• MIRROR MARGINS creates left and right pages with margins "mirroring" each other.
  That is, margins will be on the OUTER edge of each page.
  
• 2 PAGES PER SHEET creates two small equal-size pages out of the "normal size" page.
  For portrait-orientation pages, two smaller landscape pages are created.
  For landscape-orientation pages, two smaller portrait pages are created.
  
• BOOK FOLD creates a "spread" (a single page unit) out of 2 or multiples-of-2 pages.
  Your choices are All, 4, 8, 12, and 16 pages to a spread.
  

In the Preview box, select from the drop-down list how many pages these page layout features should apply to.

• WHOLE DOCUMENT applies the page setup values to every page in the document.
  
• THIS POINT FORWARD applies the changes from where you are in the document to the end.
  

Click the DEFAULT button to reset all values to their default values.
Click OK when you're done.