- Open up a Word Document.
- The paper is Half Size so you need to go to “page set up” under the “file” menu and select “Half Size” or 5.5 x 8.5. If you don’t have that option you can setup a custom page size.
- Go to “Format” – “Document”.
- Under the “Margins” tab set the margins to the following values. Also, make sure to check the check box next to “mirror margins”. Since this is a book we want the margins to mirror themselves.
- Top: 0.5″
- Bottom: 0.75″
- Inside: 0.8″
- Outside: 0.25″
- Gutter: 0″
- Now your Document should be set up and ready to go, so now for the tricky part…Printing it!
- Since this is like a book with alternating margins you need to print every other page, this is how you do it.
- Go to “File” – “Print”
- Make sure the page size is still 5.5 x 8.5, if it isn’t you can change it.
- In the print settings go to “Paper Handling”
- Select “Print Odd Number Pages”
- Now your document is ready to print. Click Print.
- Now for the tricky part, your printer should print page 1,3,5,7…. and so on. They should all come out stacked on top of eachother with page 1 on the bottom and the last page on top. Simply pick up the stack, flip it over horizontally and stick it back in your printers paper tray.
- Repeat steps 7-11 only this time on step 10 select “Print Even Number Pages”.
Good luck hope it works for you, you can always play around with the margins to customize it to your needs.
Note: Before you do this on the Journal paper we suggest cutting a bunch of 8.5×11 sheets in half and testing this process out until you feel confident it will work and understand the process. Some of us at Personal Ponderings love being able to print out our Journals. We can add pictures and other things to customize the Journal even more.
Whether you call it journaling, journal writing, personal writings,keeping a diary, or note taking; many people of all ages and in all walks of life journal on a regular basis. There are numerous types of writing journals,sketch journals, quote books, diaries or scholars journals that keep the record of thoughts, life histories, personal insights, humorous incidents, family histories, children’s quotes, personal ponderings, or what have you. Anything of value to an individual is worth journaling about and the activity of journaling itself brings increased health, understanding, and enrichment to not only the keeper of the journal, but to those who will be privileged to read it one day. Few things in life shed more light on who we are, what we believe, and lessons we have learned, than our personal journals.
One of the difficult things about keeping journals is finding those thoughts, great quotes, or humorous stories again. If there were only a way to organize the things we spend so much time recording. This is a dilemma that many avid journalers face. The founder of Personal Ponderings, went to work on this problem and has created three different journals that are represenatative of most of the different types of journals that are kept. These journals are of high quality construction and designed in a looseleaf binder with a system that will readily organize thoughts, favorite sayings, notes, or whatever is important to you. A travel companion was created to facilitate note taking or journaling away from home. The travel companion consists of a smaller notebook that fits easily in a purse or briefcase and is equipped with gummed, lined sheets of paper that fit into the main journal. By taking notes according to topic while away from home, or the office, they can readily be added to the main journal under the correct topic when you return. This allows all notes to be easily kept, in order, according to topic or date.
The Literary Journal, Personal Journal, or Scripture/Spritual Journal will meet the needs of most journalers. We believe you will not only enjoy the flexibility of the systems in these journals, but we believe you will come to prize your journal as being something of great value to you. You will enjoy reading through its pages and those great quotes will only be a page turn away.
For the beginning journaler, it is a great way to get started. There is no need to worry about writing every day, someone reading what you write, not meaning what you write, needing to fill the whole page, or whatever your concerns are. The loose leaf pages allow you to add or take away from any of your entries. If you have a period of time where you haven’t written, it doesn’t matter, By inserting an index marker.you can easily pick up where you left off.
]]>Personal Ponderings believes each of us should take the time to record our thoughts, inspirations, feelings, and experiences, for we are all people of value and our thoughts as well as our life’s experiences are of worth. Journaling not only leaves a legacy, but provides the journaler with perspective, opportunities to learn, to better the mind, the soul, and promotes the inner healing that so many seek. Without taking the time for personal records, much is lost to us, to posterity, and to mankind.
]]>Our journals are made of high quality construction 7-ring binders complete with filler pages, tabs for personalization, and a travel companion. The paper is of archival quality being both acid free and lignon free. Each of the three journals are uniquely set up to provide quick entries according to subject or date.
Because of the ring binder, pages can be easily added to or deleted from the journal. There is an ability to write about an experience months or years after it happened and file it in its place. Each of the journals comes with a handy travel companion equipped with lined paper on a gummed pad. This little companion can be taken on vacation, to meetings, seminars, or simply kept it in a briefcase or purse allowing a person to journal away from home, yet file their entries in their proper order easily and quickly when they return. The travel companion is truly the gem of these systems.
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