Introduction

Along with a lot of useful operations, you can create a booklet in the text editor Microsoft Word that is a standard A4 sheet folded in half. Specialized design of such a booklet notifies customers and employees of the organization about the creation of new products, the planned event. In fact, to create a beautiful fashionable booklet is not easy at all, for this it is necessary to have professional designer skills. True, it may be enough for an ordinary user to make a simpler leaflet using the Word text editor. In this case, it will be enough only basic knowledge of the PC. The article below provides step-by-step instructions for creating a simple but effective booklet in Word.

The principle of creating a booklet

Creating an information sheet with three columns

The first thing that the PC owner should do is to install the corresponding text editor on his computer, then create a new document, changing the portrait orientation to landscape. This kind of manipulation is necessary in order to be able to type text, which would be located not across, but along the page. You can navigate by finding the “Page Layout” category and clicking on the “Orientation” command. In the list that opens, there are only two positions, among which you need to select the “Album” option.

Secondly, you should, if possible, make the minimum indents, located on the edges of the page. Despite the fact that this action can be neglected, the user is better to do everything that is recommended, otherwise on the ready-made layout on all four sides there will be overall white edges having a very unattractive look.

On the “Page Layout” category in the Word, the “Fields” command is provided, which helps edit indentation sizes; therefore, you must select the “Narrow” section. On the created booklet there will be fields, each of which will not exceed 1.27 cm. The “Custom fields” category will help to indent even smaller sizes, with which you can create a field of the specified size. In the page settings window that opens on the screen, the user can manually set the required dimensions.

In order to understand how to make a booklet in Word, you need to have at least minimal knowledge to help you freely use a PC. The third step in creating the booklet itself should be the division of a page with a landscape orientation into three equal columns (columns). The user needs to find the “Columns” category in the “Page Layout” and choose three columns. As a result of the manipulation, a sheet will appear on the user's screen, which will be divided into three equal parts. You can track the division with the help of a ruler: you can fill, for example, the second column only after the text is evenly located along the entire length of the first column. In case there is no need to insert information over the entire length of the sheet, the free space can be filled with spaces.

Among other things, to create a booklet in Word, we should not forget about the presetting of the separator. This kind of tool can be placed directly between the columns of the booklet. The “Columns” category will help to carry out the action, the user will need this time “Other columns”. In the window that opens on the screen, you can specify various minor settings of the booklet, as well as enable the "Separator" function. However, it should be noted that this element will appear only after the text is located in all three columns. Features of the program are such that a separator will not be displayed in an empty booklet.

After activating the parameter, it is necessary to format the width not only of the columns, but also of all the existing gaps. It is important to remember that in Word, when creating a booklet, you can specify different sizes for each column. If such a need is foreseen, you need to remove the check mark from the “Column of the same width” function, and then manually specify the width of each individual block.

After the work done, it is important not to forget about saving the applied settings by pressing the “OK” button.

Creating an information sheet with a large number of graphs

If there is a need to make a booklet in Word not with three standard columns, but with a large number of graphs, you can resort to using a multifunctional text editor toolkit. The user should find the "Columns" section, then in the "Page Layout" subcategory, find "Other columns". This feature allows you to set almost any number of graphs. After performing the manipulation, it is important to save the applied settings.

Conclusion

The multifunctional software product Microsoft Word allows you to create simple but fairly original layouts that do not require special design skills. All the user needs for this is the program itself and the knowledge related to its functionality.