I have searched with Google and in this forum for a solution and nothing seems to work. I have published several books using Word for Windows with no issues. However, a recent book will not properly mirror the margins. Since I have it right in the others and since all the settings appear to be the same, I am at a loss as to why the recent book will not properly mirror the margins.

The new book was derived from a prior one...shortened to create an abridged version. Consequently, there has been considerable cutting and pasting to make sure the comparable texts are the same. This is fundamentally the only difference in the process for writing the shorter book, which is the one with the margin mirroring issue. It is the outside margin that is the issue. The inner margin mirrors.



I am totally stalled, since none of the suggestions I have read seems to work. Any help would be appreciated.

I see that no one is venturing an answer. The issue became stranger. In one instance when I inserted a figure, the figure caption had the right margins and the split paragraph where the figure was inserted had the lower or split text with the correct margins, but the following paragraph reverted to the mismatched and non-mirrored margins. I see no control such as a section break at that point. Again, every page...with and without the proper mirroring shows the same settings but for some reason those setting for the mirror margin are being overridden somehow. The margin is 1 cm too wide everywhere the mirroring is not working properly.

Hope this helps jog someone's memory.

I have solved this problem. I had been performing many cut and pastes both within and between two books. The paste option to keep formatting seems to have been the source of the problem. By copying the material into a new blank document with the same set up as the original source document, the merge formats choice eliminated the problem. I am at a loss as to why this made a difference, but it did and now I know how to avoid the same issue cropping up again....I hope!!! I suspect that if I had also copied using the text paste option, I would have wiped out the format, though maybe as it was suggested to me I would need to copy into NotePad to strip all formatting information out of the text. Did not try that but it should also work.

How did you set up mirrored margins?

• By using a gutter in margin settings with different even and odd headers? or
• By selecting Mirrored Margins in the margin gallery?

In addition, "mirrored margins" is a document setting. Different even and odd with a gutter is a document setting as well.

On the other hand, other margin settings are section properties. You may have deleted section breaks containing this formatting.

-- just saw your update. Glad you got it fixed.

Thanks for you response. No telling when I will mess things up again, so all information is good information.