Troubleshoot printing a two-page layout or booklet

Desktop printers normally have a nonprintable region around the edge of the paper that is between 0.17 and 0.5 inches wide. Nothing within that region will print.

If you don't want objects straddling the gutter, you should determine your printer's nonprintable region and reposition objects to avoid it.

Do one of the following:

• Lay out the publication as a small folded booklet, with two side-by-side pages per sheet of paper, starting on a single right-hand page.

  How?

  1. On the File menu, click Page Setup, and then click the Layout tab.
  2. Under Publication type, click Booklet.
  3. Under Orientation, select the option you want.
  4. To change the dimensions of the booklet, type a smaller width or height. Do not type a number larger than the maximum width or height.

• If your printer can print on 11" x 17" paper, lay out the publication so that it will print with two 8.5" x 11" pages per sheet of paper, starting on a single right-hand page (called an 8.5" x 11" folded booklet).

  How?

  1. On the File menu, click Page Setup, and then click the Layout tab.
  2. Under Publication type, click Full page.
  3. Under Orientation, click Portrait.
  4. Click the Printer and Paper tab.
  5. Under Paper, in the Size box, select Tabloid.
  6. Under Orientation, click Landscape.
  7. Click OK.
  8. On the Arrange menu, click Layout Guides, and then click the Margin Guides tab.
  9. In the Master Pages box, select Two-page master.
  10. To create a larger inside margin (also known as the gutter margin) to accommodate binding, type the value you want in the Inside box (under Margin Guides).
  11. Click OK.
  12. On the View menu, click Two-Page Spread.