How do you create a many page A5 booklet and then put it together?

Answer 1

If you're printing it, you first need to change the page set up to landscape. Then create two identically sized text frames which will sit one on either side of the page, & save this as a document template. Then add as many pages of this template as you need, bearing in mind that each 'page' is actually going to become two pages of the booklet - for it to work properly, you need an even number of pages that is divisible by four. Say you want a 20-page booklet, with page 1 being the front cover, & page 20 the back cover; so these two pages would be created on the same side of the same sheet of paper, with page 1 in the right-hand text frame, & page 20 in the left. On the reverse of this sheet you would print pages 2 & 19, with 2 now on the left, & 19 on the right. Now work inwards, with odd-numbered pages always on right, & even on left: p. 3 on right & 18 on left; back this sheet with 4 on left & 17 on right. Your final page would have p. 12 on left & 9 on right, backed with 10 & 11. Once you've printed them all, fold each in half, with the lowest numbered page always going on outside i.e. pages 1, 3, 5, 7 & 9. Once assembled, staple all the pages together along the fold. Depending on what program you use, you could probably find instructions & a template for this somewhere in the 'help' files. I know it used to be fairly easy to find in M$ Publisher, but I no longer have this one.