Please give me some handholding on booklet printing

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Word Worrier

Using the suggestions at http://www.word.mvps.org/content2.htm I can
get a pretty nice-looking booklet, printed on landscape 8.5 x 11 inch
paper, which is then folded in half to make a 8.5 by 5.5 inch booklet.

But boy, getting it to print was just a nasty pain in the neck. The
method I used, the one that starts with the words "If you don't want
to spend money on an add-in, or use VBA," requires a so-far
nonintuitive (to me anyway) calculation about which pages get printed
on which sheets of paper. Then, because I had to load the paper into
the printer four times for one book, I kept messing up when two sheets
of paper would stick to each other going through the printer, messing
up all the subsequent sheets of paper.

I am guessing that those macros referenced on that page simplify
things a bit by dumping the pages to the printer in the right order.
But I know nothing about macros; could someone guide me?

Or is there a way of creating an intermediate step between having my
Word document be editable and printing it? Basically, I'd like a way
that (using an eight page book as an example) would create a Word or
pdf file with the pages ordered thusly:

8 and 1 on the left/right sides of the same sheet, then 6 and 3; then
4 and 5, and 2 and 7. (Two sheets of paper would be printed, then
flipped over and reinserted into the printer for printing on the
reverse side).

Appreciate all suggestions.
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

You don't say what version of Word you have, but I assume it is Word 2000
since (a) if you had Word 2002 or 2003, you would be using "Book fold" and
(b) if you had Word 97 or earlier, you would be unable to use the macros
provided at the Web site. Dayo has given you links to two articles that will
explain how to install a macro.

As the author of the article you read, however, I will merely point out that
the purpose of that method is to produce camera-ready copy to take to
Kinko's or a commercial printer, not to produce finished booklets; that is,
it is intended to print just one side of each sheet, and that part is pretty
straightforward, with no calculation involved if you follow the directions
exactly. If your printer doesn't handle paper well, then that is not a
defect of the method itself.
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Both FinePrint and ClickBook are mentioned (with links to their sites) in
the article Word Worrier read. The methods suggested are for those who don't
want to purchase third-party solutions.
 
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Graham Mayor

I have used both these third party applications which approach the task from
different directions. Clickbook is the more powerful, but is expensive for
what it does and bluesquirrel will drive you crazy with spam once you sign
up for this software.

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SgtMinor

Graham said:
bluesquirrel will drive you crazy with spam once you sign
up for this software.
Click to expand...

Did you click on a box to OK their emails? Once you realized you didn't
want them did you ask to be taken off their mailing list? I did and the
emails stopped. That's not spam.
 
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Graham Mayor

Thinks must have improved then. There are no circumstances on earth that
would induce me to tick a box that allowed a company to mail me junk. And of
course I asked them to stop sending mail - repeatedly. Unsolicited junk mail
is spam however you look at it. Now I have them in my spam filter so have no
idea whether they are continuing to send out this stuff.

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