Publishing Indesign Document in Certain Style

Hi,
I've been working on a project using InDesign and want to have it so when it's finished it looks like this:
http://content.mcfc.co.uk/~/media/Files/Annual%20Report/MCFC_AR.pdf
i.e. I want the 2 consecutive pages to merge seamlessly with no dotted line down the middle and I want each page to fit to the screen perfectly as that PDF does, but I can't work out what settings I need to use to set it up to look like that?
Could anyone advise on how to do this?
Regards
CF1.

MW Design wrote:
Make sure your document has enough pages to be divisable by 4.
For an unimposed screen version the page count is irrelvant for exporting spreads. You only need to be divisible by 4 if you intend to print folded signatures.

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