Odd Even Pages, Outside Margin Icons

[Chad Richardson]

I am creating a user manual with different Odd and Even pages and would like
to have icons in the outside margin (i.e. an '!' icon for "Tips", etc).

Is there a way to get the Icon to move either left or right in order to stay
in the "Outside" margin upon re-paginating?

(Further description: On page 1 the right side of the page is the outside,
there I have an Icon (an exclamation point) corresponding the the text on
that page. If I insert enough text to bump that icon to the next page, the
icon will still be on the right hand side of the page. But that is page 2
and hence the inside of the page.)

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi, Chad,

Yes, there is a way...

First, you need to select "Mirror margins" in File > Page Setup;
"Different odd and even" refers only to the headers/footers.

With the cursor in a paragraph that you want to mark, use the Insert
Frame button on the Forms toolbar (yeah, that's a strange place for
this button...) and draw a frame in the margin big enough to hold the
icon.

Right-click the frame edge and select Format Frame. In the dialog, set
the text wrapping to None and the horizontal position to Outside. Make
sure that "Move with text" is checked, and click OK. Insert the icon
inside. If the paragraph that anchors the frame is bumped to the next
page, the frame will go to the opposite side of the page.

To make this more usable, select the whole frame/icon, go to Insert >
AutoText > AutoText, set the "Look in" box to your template, enter a
name for the icon, and click Add. Now you can type the name in the
document and press F3 to pop a copy of the icon into place.

 

[Chad Richardson]

Great! Thanks Jay. I've yet to use frames to this point, they make this very
easy.