Use margins and column guides to position content.
Change gutter width indesign.
Margins and columns are useful for placing and aligning elements on a page.
Indesign uses the first definition in margins and columns so i m going to guess that is what your question is about.
Some folks who love designing on grids create a bunch of narrow columns by figuring out the math so the column guides align with all the major and minor.
After i set up grid guides in my document using layout create guides and layout margins and columns i sometimes decide that a change should be made to the grid.
In the popup margins and columns window set the number of columns desired must be two of more set gutter option.
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Choose layout margins and columns and then modify each individual page.
Select the page or pages you want to change select from the pages panel from the top menu select layout margins and columns.
This brief video provides an overview of how to change the width of the margins and gutters in an existing indesign document.
You can set the gutter size from the new document menu when creating a new indesign project.
Open your indesign project file.
If you selected the preview checkbox when you click in a different text field in the dialog box the text frame updates on the page to reflect the new value setting.
Assuming i guessed correctly are you trying to define the gutter width or gutter position.
Here s how to do it.
I am running indesign cs6.
Or you can update or add a gutter to an existing project by selecting layout margins and columns from the top menu bar.
Open the pages panel window pages and select the thumbnails for the pages you wish to change.
Enter values for top bottom left and right margins as well as the number of columns and the gutter the space between columns.
Change the width of the columns by entering a new value in the width text field.
You can define the gutter s width by choosing object text frame options.
You can change margins and columns by setting new values in the margins and columns dialog box.
Choose layout margins and columns.
When uwe asked the same question you responded with column values.
Indesign does not allow you to set up unequal column widths in any of the dialog boxes for working with margins columns or text frames.
A screen shot would be very helpful to help us figure out what you.