Practical Word Tips Sharing: How to Set Gutters in Documents

For some official documents, important company information, books and examination papers, it is usually necessary to set binding lines. In Word, the gutter can be set on the left or top of the document according to actual needs, and after setting the default gutter, extra binding space will be reserved on the left or top margins of the document to be bound. This ensures that the text of the document will not be obscured by binding when it is later bound into a volume, and at the same time it will avoid page falling out, and it can also be better sealed and sealed.

Having said so much, how do you set the gutter in Word? Let’s take a look at the specific operation method.

For example: Add a gutter 3cm from the left side of the page.

1. Set the gutter margins

(1) Open the Word document and click [Page Layout] - The expansion button in the lower right corner of the [Page Settings] group, as shown in the figure.

(2) Open the "Page Setup" dialog box, select the "Margins" tab, enter "3 cm" in the "Gutter" value box, and Select the "Top" option from the "Gutter Position" drop-down list and click the "OK" button.

# (3) You can see the blank gutter area reserved at the top of the page.

However, the default gutter does not have any text or lines, only a blank gutter area. Next, we need to manually add gutter lines and text.

2. Add gutter text and lines

(1) Click [Insert]-[Illustration]-[Shape 】 button and select the "Text Box" option in the pop-up drop-down menu.

(2) Draw a text box at the top of the page where the gutter needs to be set, and enter the text "gutter" in the text box, and enter a dash as The dashed line of the gutter.

(3) Keep the text box selected, click the [Format]-[Shape Style]-[Shape Outline] button, and select "No Outline" in the pop-up menu " command to cancel the border line of the text box.

# (4) At this point, you can view the set gutter effect, as shown in the figure.

Tips: There is more than one way to add gutter text and lines. We can also click the [Insert]-[Shape] button, select line insertion, and then set the line's Line type, thickness, color and other parameters are as shown in the figure below.

Then insert the text box to enter text, and fill the text box with white to achieve a gutter effect similar to the above picture.

The method to delete the gutter in Word is also very simple: also open the "Page Setup" dialog box, change the cm value of the gutter to "0", and then delete the gutter Just line text and lines.

Recommended tutorial: "Word Tutorial"

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