change interior margin on facing pages

[joannet93671898]

I have a completed document of 281 pages, but when I purchased the proof copy, I saw that I did not have enough gutter on the interior. I need to change the width of the interior margin on a facing pages document. I believe I have Indesign 2020 but I don't know where to check to find out for sure. 

Anyway, I  worked with tech support for over an hour. He even took over my PC. We could not get it to move.  He said I could move one page at a time. That is rediculous. 

I have tried to change it by going to pages, by going to File,  adjust layout and File, Document Set-up. 

I have tried to adjust in the Properties panel. Nothing works.   I need 1 inch margin on top and interior. And .75 on bottom and .50 on exterior. 

Any suggestions?  I wish I could get a hold of Terry White. He knows everything.  

[Mike Bro]

Hello,

In the pages panel select the pages you need to adjust the margins on, then under the Layout menu/ Margins and Columns apply the margin settings that you want.

Regards,

Mike

[Bill Silbert · Accepted solution]

When you follow mikeb's advice and go through Layout>Margins & Columns make sure that "Adjust Layout" is checked or the width of your text frames that are aligned with the margin guides will not move.

[Mike Bro · Accepted solution]

Hello,

The margins look correct in your document, if its the text frames you need to adjust, follow the method below.

It worked for me on the file you posted.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/auto-fit-a-text-box-within-a-page-s-margins/td-p/9620344?pag...

https://www.id-extras.com/apply-object-style-to-all-text-containers-in-a-story-free-script/

Select the threaded text frame on the first page and create a new Object style based on [none] with the setting shown below.

(you may need to adjust the other settings, but what's shown will correct the text frame size and position)

• Select the threaded text frame on the first page
• Select the new Object style.
• Run the script to resize all the text frames.

mySelection = app.selection[0];
if (! mySelection instanceof TextFrame){
   alert("Please select a text frame and try again.");
exit();
}
myObjectStyle = mySelection.appliedObjectStyle;
myResult = confirm("Apply object style " + myObjectStyle.name + " to all threaded frames until the end of the story?");
if (!myResult){
   exit();
}
myCounter = 0;
while (mySelection = mySelection.nextTextFrame){
   myCounter++;
   mySelection.applyObjectStyle(myObjectStyle, true, true);
}
alert("Number of text containers affected: " + myCounter);

Regards,

Mike