How to Create a Booklet in MS Word 2007
Microsoft Word is a popular word processing program produced by the Microsoft corporation. Besides creating documents, Word also has the capability to create booklets that you can preview and print without having to pay a commercial printing company to make the product for you from documents. Word lets you manually create the booklet format or make use of booklet templates in Word 2007 to use as a starting point for your work.
Instructions
Create Booklets in Word 2007 with Templates
1 Open Word 2007 by double-clicking the program icon on your computer’s desktop or opening from the “Program Files” sub-menu of the computer’s “Start” menu.
2 Choose the “Microsoft Office” menu button followed by the “New” button on the subsequent dialog box. Click the “Microsoft Office Online” button on the dialog box to view the Microsoft online template library.
3 Enter “Booklet” in the template search box text field, followed by the “Enter” key, to view the available Word booklet templates.
4 Double-click the booklet template that you want to use, followed by the “Download” menu button. The template will automatically be loaded in Word 2007 after the download is completed.
5 Enter changes to the title, and modify the headings, sub-headings and content to create the booklet in Word. When this is complete, select the “Save As” sub-menu to save the booklet to your computer.
Create a Booklet in Word Manually
1 Open a new Word document by selecting “File,” “New” and “Blank Document” in Word.
2 Configure the page setup by choosing “Page Setup” from the “File” menu, followed by selecting the “Margins” menu option.
3 Choose the “Book Fold” menu option under the “Multiple Pages” listing. The document page will then be changed to landscape format.
4 Configure the inside and outside margins by entering the amount of space in the “Inside” and “Outside” menu boxes. The inside space will be determined by the type of binding you are going to use for the booklet. You may need to experiment with the settings if you’re creating a booklet for the first time and printing at home.
5 Enter the number of pages to use for the booklet in the “Sheets per booklet list” configuration setting. Select the “Save As” menu option located under the “File” menu to save the draft booklet. You can view the layout by choosing “File” and “Print Preview” before adding additional content and printing the booklet.
