Make a Booklet on Microsoft Word
You might think that you have no use for booklets, but a booklet is a catch-all term for catalogs, calendars, sales manuals, basically anything that resembles a book. A magazine could even be considered a booklet if it is stapled instead of perfect bound.
A business owner could create a booklet as a small catalog of their products; a student could produce a 4-page booklet for a school project. Many colleges use booklets to let students know about academic offerings. Booklets are used everywhere. And you don’t need fancy graphics software to create a booklet, either. Microsoft Word is all you need to create a basic booklet that looks professional and impressive.
You can easily go to Microsoft Office Online and download any booklet template you want. Then just replace all of the text and images with your own. If you want to make a booklet from scratch, though, follow these steps.
Steps
Using Word Templates
- Do search for booklet template. Many professional sites are providing free booklet template as you can browse save-word-templates at http://www.savewordtemplates.net/booklet-template.html. You can also browse MS's official site.
- Download the template. You can download the template by clicking on download button at the bottom of preview. If you've downloaded from save-word-templates or other site then the file will be in .zip's format, but if template is from MS Word then it will be in doc format.
- Open in MS Word. It's time to open downloaded template in MS Word and update content according to your business’s needs. You are suggested to use latest version of MS Word for batter experience.
- Save & Print.
- After customization your booklet is ready to go. Now click on file menu and then on save, select directory where you've to save, type file name, select "word template" for save as type, and then click on save.
- Now click on file menu then on print or use (Ctrl+P) for shortcut, Update settings according to your printer and paper then click on print.
Using MS Word
- Go to File —> Page Setup to set your margins. Good booklet design has margins of at least 1/8-inch (0.125”) – you don’t want any text or photos bleeding off of the page. Expand the margins to 1/4-inch for a cleaner look.
- Set your paper orientation to Landscape', whilst in Page Setup.
- Add columns' to create a clean line of your product photos. If you want four pictures going across each page, you’ll need four columns. You can type in the number of columns manually instead of choosing a Preset. You can alter the spacing and width of the columns as needed, but the default spacing should be okay for most layouts.
- Add breaks between the columns so that each column of your booklet will hold separate paragraphs of information without overflowing into the next column. Place your cursor in the first column (the one way to the left) and go to Page Layout (or Insert for Word 2003) – Breaks and choose Column. Your cursor should now be at the top of the next column. Keep inserting breaks as needed until each column is its own entity.
- Add text and photos to each column. Just click in each column and go to Insert –> Picture. You may want to use text boxes instead of typing directly into the column if you want your text to “float.”
- Save your booklet.
- Print out a test copy or send the file to a printer to print a “proof,” which is a test copy.
- Ensure there are no spelling or grammar errors, by running the Spell Checker, if you are happy with the proof’s colors and the layout. Have someone read over the text as well because the Spell Checker often misses a lot of mistakes.
Tips
- If you’re mailing the booklets, check with your printer to see if it provides mailing services. That’s one step you can pay someone else to do!
