Reply To: How to start making a booklet in InDesign 5.5

Thanks to your help, I now have my booklet finished.

The reason why I was stuck was that I started creating a booklet by doing File > New > Book. Seems sensible. I wanted to make a boklet and here was a menu item that seemed to offer that. That got me nowhere. What your help did was to make it clear that it is first necessary to create a Document, and with the master page box checked (not intuitively obvious) and only then turn it into a booklet for printing. Logical, but only after the event! I searched the Internet, Adobe's helps, everywhere, but nowhere was that made clear, nor even a reference to it in the Print Booklet help.

As you said, I needed to tweak the settings for the booklet because I was confined to using A4 paper and the margins had to be closely adjusted to allow the imposed pages both to both keep within the paper width but not extend over the edge of the paper. However, worked fine.

Many thanks.