Developing a 2-fold 17 x 11 Brochure

[Bardo]

Hello everyone - I'm a first-time poster who would really appreciate
some help.

I'm attempting to build a double-sided brochure in WORD, size 17 x11
(i.e., the width of two standard 8.5 x 11 pages).

I have the content already built in 4 separate 8.5 x 11 WORD docs.
Each of these docs is set up with the brochure design in the header
and footer section (to ensure regularity and to make it easy to add
pages with the same look and feel).

To date I have tried building a new 2-page document, setting page size
to 17 x 11, setting 2 columns, and placing the content of the 4 built
docs on each of the new expanded pages, but this didn't work -
information on the right-hand size of each page was obscured, and the
design only appeared on the left-hand side header-footer section.

I would really appreciate if anyone could give me some pointers as to
what I might try, or what I might be doing wrong.

Thanks in advance for your help )

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If this is Word 2000 or above, select the 11 x 17 paper size and then select
"2 pages per sheet" in the "Multiple pages" dropdown on the Margins tab of
Page Setup. Set the margins the same as you existing document. You can then
drop your 8.5 x 11 pages into the document without any reformatting.

 

[pgcommunication]

I'm attempting to build a double-sidedbrochure inWORD, size 17 x11
(i.e., the width of two standard 8.5 x 11 pages).

Susanne's advice is excellent (as one would expect from the author of
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/BookletPrinting.htm).

Here are a few other approaches you could try (if, for example, you
have an older version of Word):

1. If the brochure will be printed professionally, let the print shop
handle the layout. They'll have expensive "page imposition" software
which will make this a breeze.

2. Look under File>Print...>Properties. Some printer drivers have a
"booklet layout" option. Bring all of the pages into one document (as
separate pages), enable "booklet layout," and you're done.

3. Use the printer's "pages per sheet" option. Yes, there might be
TWO places you can set "pages per sheet"--in Word and in the printer
properties. If you do it in the printer properties, you'll need to
experiment to get the order of the pages right.

4. Print to PDF, and use the PDF print driver to print in booklet
format. (The free "pdf995" program might be able to do this, though I
don't have it installed at the moment to verify this.)

5. Use one of the booklet printing macros mentioned in Suzanne's MVPS
article.

Paul Goble