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I need to set margins in Pages for a book

which means that the left (and even numbered) pages have a wide margin on the right and the right (and odd-numbered) pages have a wide margin on the left. I couldn't find how to do this.

Thanks

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.6

Posted on May 28, 2023 11:45 PM

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Posted on May 29, 2023 12:51 AM

Choose one of the Book templates.

Click on the Document button at the far right of the tool bar to open the Document inspector.


Note the Document Margins set at thee bottom of the Inspector pane in the example below.


The default settings for all four margin settings was 1.27cm. I edited the 'Inside' margin setting to 1.9 cm, and made no changes in the others. The result can be seen in the two pages to the left of the Inspector.



To make the margin position(s) visible, I clicked the View button to open the View menu, then clicked the Show Layout menu item (about halfway down the menu). Display of the layout can also be toggled off and on by pressing shift command L.


Regards,

Barry

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May 29, 2023 12:51 AM in response to ????? ???1

Choose one of the Book templates.

Click on the Document button at the far right of the tool bar to open the Document inspector.


Note the Document Margins set at thee bottom of the Inspector pane in the example below.


The default settings for all four margin settings was 1.27cm. I edited the 'Inside' margin setting to 1.9 cm, and made no changes in the others. The result can be seen in the two pages to the left of the Inspector.



To make the margin position(s) visible, I clicked the View button to open the View menu, then clicked the Show Layout menu item (about halfway down the menu). Display of the layout can also be toggled off and on by pressing shift command L.


Regards,

Barry

I need to set margins in Pages for a book

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