Who else would want the job? There are so many tiny details and decisions that go into formatting a book that you pretty much have to be someone who enjoys working on that scale to appreciate book design. IвЂ™m not going to deny that book designers are detail freaks. This has to do with page margins-how to do them right and how not to do them wrong. Today, I want to look at one of the most common of these mistakes, and show you easy ways to avoid it. For instance, last year I was judging the annual book competition for a local publishing group, and I found formatting and book construction mistakes in many of the books produced by amateur publishers. I talk to a lot of authors and look at hundreds of self-published books, and the ones that are problematic jump out at me. Longstanding habits of readers and accepted trade practices have come to dictate that we follow these formatting guides unless we have a pretty good reason not to. ItвЂ™s important to stay within formatting conventions because printed books have existed for a long while. When authors decide to format their own books, they donвЂ™t always make the best choices. Need a Book Layout Template for MS Word or Mac?.HereвЂ™s how a Table looks using a standard single line border but increasing the cell spacing from the default, Zero.ДЄs you can see, the single line table border becomes a twin gridline just by adding cell spacing to the same table. Go to Table | Alignment | Cell Margins | Default cell spacing | Allow spacing between cells. While cell margins are the space between the text and the edge of the cell, cell spacing puts space around each of the cells.Д¬ell spacing has a surprising effect on the look of a Word Table with single line borders.

WordвЂ™s Table Options have an interesting choice, Cell Spacing. When space is tight, reducing the default left & right cell margins can help fit a table or contents into the available space. Change the Top & Bottom cell margins to separate the lines and improve readability. HereвЂ™s a single row, highlighted a little by increasing the top & bottom cell margins.Д¬ell margins are useful to separate lines in a table, especially when thereвЂ™s no gridlines. UNcheck the box вЂSame at the whole tableвЂ™ then change the margin settings. Select the column, row or cell you want to change then go to Table Layout | Table | Properties | Cell | Options. Table cell margins can be changed for a row, column or even a single cell, but itвЂ™s nowhere near the main Cell Margins ribbon button. You can, of course have different margins on different sides: HereвЂ™s the large cell margins (left) compared to zero cell margins (right).

The margins weвЂ™ve selected above are quite large, just to show you clearly how his setting changes your table. In the Table Options dialog that opens, use the spinners to incrementally change each of the four margins, or simply type in the margin that you want into each field Top, Bottom, Left or Right. Then click Cell Margins in the Alignment group. To change the cell margins, we again click in the table and go to the Layout tab on the right. They can be set separately for the top, bottom, and either side of the cells. Cell Margins and Cell Spacing are two important settings in any Word Table but they arenвЂ™t used much and not well understood.Д¬ell margins are the spaces between your text and the edge of the cell.

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