Booklet/Magazine Printing in Word XP

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thenapolitan

Hi All,

I seem to have a dilemma which I have been trying for hours to solve. I
have a 68-page document formatted to print on Legal paper and I would
like the size to be a small booklet (the same size that the print out
looks when you print 4 pages onto one sheet of paper). I want to print
this as a fold-over booklet so that I can stack all the sheets
together, staple in the middle, and then fold it. Any ideas on how to
do this automatically? I've been testing my math skills and printing
out the file manually, and have come up with this page order for my
printing:

68,1,66,3, 2,67,4,65, 6,63,8,61, 64,5,62,7

Each space indicates an actual new page since I am printing 4 pages of
the document per actual page. I really don't want to be sitting here
typing page numbers and potentially mess up the order and I cannot find
anything in Word (I'm using Word 2002 out of Office XP). I need an
algorithm or a program that will give me these numbers automatically.
Any ideas?? I'm starting to give up! :(
 
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DatabaseBen

sounds like fun.

but sometimes it's aggravating
and trial and error only leads to
lost time and wasted paper.

Instead I would simply recommend
to use your page numbering guideline
and print 1 page at a time. And each
of the pages/files will be a 2 column page style.

I would open up your full document
in one window, then use a separate
window for the 2 column page.

Then copy from the large
file and alt tab into the other and
paste into the appropriate column.

Then save the file for printing later. The file name
should be something like pg01-68, even though
it will print page 68 in the first column and page
1 in the second. And be sure to add a zero for
the single digits, e.g. 01, 02, etc...

Continue the process above with the subsequent
pages. I haven't done the math, but you should
end up with 38 separate files.

As a safety measure, make a copy of all of
them and store in a separate folder just in case
something screws up with the original.

Now that you have all of these separate files
that you have meticulously built, you can
decide how to print them.

Again you can
play around and merge them into one. But I
suggest to simply take the time and print
one file per sheet of paper. Then if you want you
can flip the paper over and
print the subsequent file on to the back side.

Since i don't have all the details of
your project, I would print all the files out on
separate pages. then go to Kinko's and
have them reproduce them on their fancy Xerox
book making copier that will convert your separate
pages into double sided copies.

They can also take a disk of the files as
well. But again don't waste any time
as some Kinko's don't have the ability to use
the data or the operator doesn't have the skills
to use the data. All the formatting can be lost.

So I suggest that you control the
printing by having the pages already printed
for them.
 
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Dale M Warehime

This can be done in Word 2007 Trial Version. In fact it was introduced in I
believe Word 2003. A 60 day trial version is available from Microsoft now.
The full version will be released in about a month.
If you have graphics in your file it may be a problem as their appears to be
a bug in the 2007 version. Be sure that if you download the 2007 Trial that
you use the *.doc extension that you use in your version of Word.

If you have Word 2003 available it works like a charm.

It works like this.

Under Page Layout select Margins then Custom Margins. Under the Margins tab
select Book Fold. Be sure that you select All in sheets per booklet.

You will need to set your paper size to the two up size that is 8.5 * 11 for
a 5.5 x 8.5 book or 8.5 * 14. for a 7 * 8.5 book.

Forget all the problems you are having this one solves the problem period.

It you have problems with this get back to me.
 
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