Locking content to margins in Publisher

[NormanTaylor]

I am a rather new user of Publisher. I have watched many of the video tutorials, read the Workbook and scanned the Help manual. However, I have not yet found the answer to a problem I see ahead.

My reason for getting into Publisher is that I have to produce a one hundred page collection of two- to five-page articles for printing eventually by a commercial printer. The layout issues have all gone pretty well but I am worried that, inevitably, after the page sequence is set up, there will be a need to insert an additional page or pages, which I can obviously do. I have set the page margins to 25mm, except for the inner margin, which is 30mm. Is it possible to lock content like text boxes and images to the margins, so that they re-align properly whether the page is left or right? I would obviously prefer not to have to move the content page by page by hand or by applying, manually, a separate master page.

My thanks in advance for sharing your experience.

Norman Taylor

[DWright]

You are not able to lock content to a margin but you can add a guide to the master page and this will allow you to snap objects to this guide.

[NormanTaylor]

Thank you for this input. I fear that I did not make myself clear. however, (or am missing the point entirely). 

Snapping an object. like an image or a text box, to a guide seems to me to be a step in the initial page composition - and that works perfectly for me, using a master. To allow for binding, though, the inner margin is larger and this is also OK so long as right and left pages do not change. If an extra page is inserted after, say, 15 (of 100), all subsequent pages have the image which was snapped to the guide at the inner margin, in the wrong position. I foresee having to nudge eighty five pages in or out by 5mm to restore the correct wider space at the centre of each two-page spread. If I understand your response correctly, items can be snapped to guides, placed on the master's margins, at the time of page layout. I was hoping that there was a procedure to preserve the snapping to the guide, even after the left and right pages are transposed (e.g. when a new page is inserted Lock to margin guide.afpub). I imagine that this happens occasionally, even when print jobs are well-planned.

Thank you again for your patience.

Norman Taylor

Because this may all sound complicated, I have tried to explain my concern in a demo file attached.