A 32-40 page booklet

[JEM]

The old fashioned way works, but is there a better way?

I have made several booklets using the following method.

To make a 24 page 8"x5-1/2" booklet, I create a 12 page
document and using 8x11 paper in landscape. I divide each
page in publisher in half and each publisher page becomes
two pages in the booklet. At the bottom of each publisher
page, on the left and right center I put the booklet page
numbers at the bottom as below.

Page 1: 24-1 (A)
Page 2: 2-23 (B)

Page 3: 22-3 (A)
Page 4: 4-21 (B)

Page 5: 20-5 (A)
Page 6: 6-19 (B)

Page 7: 8-17 (A)
Page 8: 18-7 (B)

Page 9: 16-9 (A)
Page 10: 10-15 (B)

Page 11: 14-11 (A)
Page 12: 12-13 (B)

After set-up is complete, I put the material on its
corresponding page for the booklet.

Once it's finished, I print everything. Then, I copy the
pages on both sides in sets; 1-2, 3-4, etc. When the sets
are nested together and folded, they become a booklet
with the material and page numbers in sequence.

I've done this with several booklets from 12-32 pages and
it works but I am wondering if publisher can do the page
numbering automatically, and allow me to work in sequence
adding and deleting pages when necessary.

It gets to be a little cumbersome sometimes. As you can
see from the chart above, page 3 appears on left hand
side of page 3 in the file and page 4 appears on page 4.
The only pages that appear side by side sequentially are
the center pages, in this example pages 12 and 13 appear
on page 12 file.

Maybe it's not possible for publisher to consider print
pages on both sides to make a booklet, or automatically
re-paging..

Any ideas?

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

Did you miss the BookFold/Booklet in Publisher.
It does everything automatically and well.
How come you are using that dumb imperial system posting from Japan!!!
Well at least I know I can talk metric paper sizes as you must know them!!!
Don't you worry, soon the US will be fully metric - they cannot afford not
to.

In BookFold/Booklet in Publisher it takes an A4 in Landscape (or stupid
sized imperial equivalent) and makes it into 4 pages. That is a left and
right front and a left and right back. If you add a page, it automatically
adds four pages - being one sheet of A4 paper.

You mean you have been doing this manually when Publisher could have done it
for you automatically all along? Or did I miss something in your post?

If you are using a quality printer like a fine Japanese Kyocera, even their
basic model has duplex printing in the software driver.

With Publisher 2003 it gives you the ability to move pages which is a good
new feature - along with many others.

I have done many books/booklets in Publisher, so don't hesitate to ask any
questions.

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[JEM]

I love you! It works.

Used imperial system for explaination in case people were
not familiar with 'B4'.... Huh? 'B4', 'Before' what?
(HAHA)

Many thanks...

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

There are substantially less people in the world that know about that dumb
outdated obsolete lousy imperial system.

All the smart intelligent countries use the metric system, it is the
outdated backward countries that still use that outdated archaic bizarre
imperial system.

The forward thinking an intelligent in the US have in the majority moved
over to metric. Many US corporations are now completely using metric size
paper and measuring systems. US manufacturers have been forced to modernise
to metric to try and keep some market share. You cannot sell equipment
outside the US that is not metric in every way including threads.

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