(Post updated January 23, 2020)
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Hey zine makers and creators, I have something for you that will save you from major headaches! I present to you Microsoft Word templates for 4 to 40 page zines in half size! Half sized means booklets made with 8.5″ x 11″ paper folded in half.
After Googling and searching the internet up and down, I found there weren’t many useful booklet templates for Microsoft Word so I decided to put together some of my own. I spent many hours putting this together so I hope someone out there will find it useful.
For zines with many pages, I have found that a crafts bone folder is incredibly helpful in folding the multiple pages! Maybe this will contribute to less sloppy zines? :-/
A few notes about the templates:
1. The useful and convenient part about these templates is that you can copy and paste a lot of text and it will populate into the pages in order accordingly. But…
2. …unfortunately, Microsoft Word only allows a max of 32 text boxes to link together so I had to start a new “flow text” with templates that have more than 32 pages. In other words, the text flow will have to start over after 32 pages so keep that in mind if you are copy and pasting text into the template.
3. To print the booklet when you’re done, print out the odd numbered pages first. Reorder the printed pages accordingly so you can feed it back to the printer for the even numbered pages.
4. There were very strange problems with the 36 and 40 page templates. I found that it only works as a downloadable file when I convert them into DOT files, which can be opened in Word.
Download All Word Booklet TemplatesOr you can download what you need individually here:
4 Page Booklet Template
8 Page Booklet Template
12 Page Booklet Template
16 Page Booklet Template
20 Page Booklet Template
24 Page Booklet Template
28 Page Booklet Template
32 Page Booklet Template
36 Page Booklet Template
40 Page Booklet Template
Hope someone out there finds these templates useful useful. 🙂 Let me know if you have any problems or if you have any templates you’d like to see. I’d like to put together a 1/4 zine sized template soon.
This is amazing, thank you so much!
So glad you found this useful, Candace! 🙂
This was very helpful. Thanks!
Thanks so much! This was just what I was looking for.
Does anyone know how to change the page numbers and set up so it’s not in printable form, but in a form that you can just read normally?
IE
1 2
3 4
5 6
Hi, Josie, sorry for the delay in responding.
I’m not sure I understand your question. Each template page is set up manually so the page numbers are entered manually as well. If you want to change the page numbers, you will have to just change what is there.
Let me know if that answers your question,
Sinoun
Hi, this is so helpful!
Was just wondering whether this works with double sided printing, or whether I need to disable it for it to work?
Its probably really obvious but I can’t seem to get my head round it!
Thanks
Hi, Livi,
Glad you found this helpful! The template is not automatically set to double sided printing. You will have to set that manually in your settings.
Sinoun
omg – you just saved my life! Was told to do this in photoshop – hah! This was a cinch. Thanks again.
I can’t wait for your 1/4 page template – which is exactly what I need.
I hope to be able to do this soon!! 🙂
Thanks for posting these really helped because I’m doing a zine for school and didn’t have a temple 🙂 Thanks again!
So glad this helped you, Courtney. 🙂
Hey there! Thanks for the template. What do you think is the best way to format images into this template? I keep trying to insert them and keep having problems. Thanks!
Hey Brian! The way I always insert images in Word is by creating a shape (typically rectangle) and choosing a fill image. Doing it this ways allow MUCH more flexibility in placement. The annoying part about doing it this way is making sure you can manually size the box accordingly, otherwise the picture will look stretched or squeezed. Hope this helps!
Hello!
I have been searching for HOURS to find something like this, thank you so much! I am curious if you ever made a 1/4 template? If not, I will more than likely be using this 1/2 template. Thank you again so much for rescuing me from the depths of the internet! 😛
Hello, Emily! I’m so glad you found this helpful! 🙂 I still plan on making the 1/4 size template, but just don’t know when. I’ve just been very busy. I hope I can before the end of this year! If you are interested in getting notifications one when I do, please consider signing up for the mailing list since that is how I will let everyone know.
Hi Sinoun, you’re really great for doing this, thank you so much!! I just have a quick question, perhaps you can help?
I want to use Columns in my zine… but when I go to click on “Columns”, it is not clickable, and I’m unable to access it. Is Columns disabled in your template? Or am I missing something key in order to write in Columns? Any advice would be helpful. Thank you for everything!!
Hi Grave, this is a really good question! In Word, you unfortunately can not create columns within in text boxes, which is what each page is. What you can do to work around that incapability is create additional text boxes and format them for each page individually. This will require extra layout work, but it will be worth it if that is the design you are going for!
You are BEYOND helpful. I will try your suggestion! Thank you so much!! 😀
Thank you very much for creating the templates. My grandson is making a booklet for school. You’ve saved our sanity.
So glad I could help!! 🙂
I need the 1/4 size template for WS Word for 8 pages.
look forward to when it will be available. Thanks
Once I can get the templates set up, it will help me on my next zine too, but I haven’t had the time to set them up. 🙁 Word is a bit annoying to work with when setting up templates…
Sorry, but for some reason I’m a little confused. Is “page 1” the cover page? Or does this not include a cover? If it is indeed the cover, I don’t see how page 2 folds in the right way. I’m just not really sure what order to arrange my content in…
Yes, page 1 is the cover. These are booklet templates, so it may seem odd if you’ve never printed booklets before. Test print yourself to see how it comes out. Keep in mind when you print, the even numbered pages are the “back side” of the previous odd numbered page. Does that make sense? You arrange your content in the same order that the page numbers are.
The content boxes seem a little narrow to me, is there a way to make all of them a little wider all at once?
I believe you can select multiple boxes and change the size of all the ones you have selected.
Hi,
A bit confused as to how they would be folded…. and why page 2 is next to page 19 ect? Maybe I’m just being stupid but it’s baffling my head haha.
Thanks!
This is so amazing and helpful, thankyou! Very much appreciated!
Thank you so very much for your work & for sharing this with the world. You saved me so much time!!
Hi, this is great! Although I am wondering how you break the link between text boxes? Some of my text boxes will not be flow and there are multiple sections to my zine so this makes it quite difficult. Thanks!
There’s no page 3 on the 28 page template!!! AHHH
I am so happy to find your template, but I am having a hard time copying and pasting into the 28 page format template. When I copy and paste text into page 4, it slips into page 1. Same with page 5. Is this a problem from my computer or should I try a different template? Maybe I can add some pages on and do the 32 page template instead. Looking forward to your advice. Thanks. v
Hi Verona, did you figure out how to change this? I am using the template and the copy paste keeps slipping into page 1 and overriding what already there. thanks!!!
This is amazing!! Did you ever make a 1/4 size template? I would love to use it…
This is a great template, thank you so much! I haven’t successfully printed it in Word; I am using the 24 page template.
I’m sure it has something to do with printing manually back and front and selecting the right page range,
but so far I haven’t been able to print them in order to fold them correctly. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Actually now that I use a printer than can print both sides, it worked perfectly!!!! Thank you again. It turns out that all I needed to do was “Print on both sides, Flip on Short Edge”
Hi there! Thank you very much for this.
This is great! Thanks so much!
For anyone like me, who’s using OpenOffice, you can convert the files from .docx to .doc using various sites around the web, and they’ll still work fine, up until .dot, which I haven’t been able to figure out yet.
how do you add pages?
Where do I get the 1/2 page Zine templte?
I dont want the large one I want 8 pages on one sheet of paper (8X11)??
Saw that someone commented on this about using OpenOffice, Since i’m also a user, can these DOCX files be converted to OTT templates? they are able to be converted from DOCX to DOC (which turns it into a normal open office document…but im concerned about saving, since id be saving over the original file?)
If not I guess ill just find a copy of Word lol
Omg you’re amazing! Thank you so much for your hard work!I would’ve had to spend hours and hours trying to figure this out, on top of my day job – but your book templates here are just fantastic. Thank you for your contribution and for keeping it free.
TQ FOR SHARE, I am interested in making a book, if I can buy a book template of the front page, table of contents, until the final page in a Microsoft Office format. how much thanks
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i dont know if im just being an idiot but i cant seem to be able to type in any of the text boxes i can type in the first but the others wont let me. itll start typing behind the boxes? i tried clicking edit text in the boxes but that doesnt work? i dont understand how to do this :/
Thanks alot, Jazak Allah khair! i am looking for half page size booklet as well please let me know if you have one for 8-12 pager
Hi! Thanks so much for uploading this. I’m having some trouble editing the template. Whenever I try to add text to a specific page, the text always appears at the top of page 1 no matter what! Is there anyone else who experienced this problem and knows how to fix it?
Thank you for all your hard work. I am looking for either a 4 or 8 page booklet template, but let me explain what I need. We are doing a Cub Scout Day Camp and wish to publish “passports” for each of the boys. To help with printing, and to make them more like real passports size wise, I would like to print two passports per page, i.e. one on top and one on the bottom of the page. So instead of half page I guess these would be like quarter page. Once printed we can cut them to separate them into individual passports. Then the next thing for me to figure out will be to mail merge the name and picture of each youth from our registration data. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks, Tom
THIS… IS… AWESOME!!! thanks so much.
Thank you so much. These are so helpful. You’re a hero to zinesters everywhere!
Thank you very much for your template. I also looked high and low and yours was very helpful!
I can’t populate the fields for some reason with text… help? I just shows up as boxes, and if I copy/past nothing happens; if I double click nothing happens. Then if i right click I’m not getting anywhere either.
Hmm cant open these says word has a problem with the content.
This is great, thank you so much, now I just need to figure out how many pages I am going to make my zine
Is the 8 page booklet in zine form? Which is to say, all 8 pages imposed on a single sheet that may be folded and, with a single cut in the middle, turned into a small book? I have only found an InDesign template so far. (And, yes, I know how to make an 8 page zine; what I need is a template that flows text from one zine page to another and flips it where needed to fold right-reading.) Thanks!
This is great! Thank you for all the work you did in creating all. Do you know where I can find a Word Template for a single page sine (to create a mini 8 section sine)? any and all help is greatly appreciate it! Thank you
for some reason it doesn’t allow me to text wrap anymore could you please look into this is anyone else having the same problem?
Chi miigwech ~ marsee ~ thank you for this! I am going to be making my own zine for the holiday gifts!!! =)
THIS SAVED THE DAY FOR MY ARCHIVES ZINE! THANK YOU!
Cannot get any to download. They hang.
I am frustrated because I have successfully set up the 40 page booklet, and printed it. But if I close the file and then reopen again later (as a .dot file) it double-types the print on pages 15 and 26. I don’t know how to fix this. I am on a Windows PC, Windows 7. Am I going to have to set it up anew every single time I want to print these?? I am trying to sell these booklets, I need to be able to print them flawlessly on demand. Is there a better template out there? Maybe one I can buy?
OK, I’ve got it now. People, once you have populated your document, IF YOU ARE USING A LATER VERSION OF WORD THAN 1997-2003, THEN: when you save it, you MUST check the box that says “Maintain compatibility with previous versions of Word.” If you don’t do this, word will mess with the formatting, and the next time you open it, you’ll find pages double=printed, and pages that are empty. It’s working fine now. What a great template, thanks!!
Hi I made my 1st attempt with the 8 page template worked well! Thanks, working in a new one now. I bookmarked your page incase something happens to it (re-download if it becomes distoryed.
Super! only I need at least 48 pp…..is this possible? Thank you!
Found this page after searching for weeks to find an easy template. Thank you so much!!
Hi, for my son’s school project I was looking for a Zine booklet template which looks like a Tobler chocolate bar, can you please help me with that?
Thank you so much! I’m a reading tutor and I used the template to print out a book one of my students wrote. She loved seeing her work in the format of a “real” book. Thank you!
Hi. I would love to use these templates, but I don’t have microsoft word. Could you please send these to me in a google doc instead? My email is bookerangel16@gmail.com Thanks!
thank you so much for this. just happened to find this page while going on an endless search for help with making a zine on word. I really appreciate it. this is so helpful!!!
Hi ! I use these so much –ty!! I’m not sure if this has been mentioned but on the 20 page booklet there is a small typo. On page 18 it says page 16.
Thank you so much!
Hi thank you so much for this template. For the 28 page book, it says page 23 instead of page 3, luckily when I went over the book before printing I caught this. Otherwise a great resource!
Thank you very much. I instruct a course that has a Zine assignment and used the 12 page template your provided in our class for those who wanted to create an electronic zine.
i cannot go from page 1 to page 2 to continue filling up the pages
I saw that you were planning to make a quarter page size booklet template. Have you done that? I need a quarter page size booklet template printed on both sides of the paper. I have been cutting and taping together individual pages to get the format that I want. I would so like to have a template that sets up the booklet. I need the individual page size to be 4.25″ wide by 5.5″ tall, again printed on both sides of the pages. Right now, I have enough data that an 8 page booklet is all that’s needed but it would be nice to be able to add more pages if needed.
do you have a template for a half page mini zine? Thank you!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I’ve been struggling with setting this up for 2 days! you have saved my sanity!
Thank you so much! These are awesome. We struggled at the school for days to try to figure out booklet formatting and your templates saved the day!!!!!
this is great, thank you so much! Just what the internet was made for!
This is exactly what I was looking for! I had a total of 12 pages trying to make a foldable pamphlet in Word an couldn’t grasp what page to place where! Thank You!!!
It is just perfect! Thank you so much!