Printing 4 A6 landscape pages on a sheet of A4

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David Beamish

In order to create speech notes on A6 landscape paper, I want to set up
a document from which I can print out 4 pages on a landscape sheet of
A4. I can then cut the paper up to produce the notes. This is easy in
WordPerfect but I can’t find a way of doing it in Word 2002 (except
setting up 2×2 labels filling a sheet of landscape A4, but that does not
allow the text to flow from one page to the next). Can anyone kindly
advise? If possible, I’d like to be able to control font size and
margins rather than print a reduced version of the original document,
but any solution is better than none!
 
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Doug Robbins

Down the bottom right hand corner of the File Print dialog, there is a
control that allows you to select 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 or, 16 pages per sheet.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
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David Beamish

Doug said:
Down the bottom right hand corner of the File Print dialog, there is a
control that allows you to select 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 or, 16 pages per sheet.
Click to expand...
I am afraid I can't make that work! If I set up my page as a landscape
A4 page and then select 4 pages per sheet, I get 4 pages on a portrait
A4 sheet - the text is shrunk to fit in the top half of each portrait A6
quarter of the sheet. The same happens if I set up my page as a
landscape A6 page. It looks as if Word always uses portrait layout if
you select 4 pages per sheet. The following Knowledge Base article (for
Word 2000) suggests that that is by design:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=244401
Is there a workaround or another way? The Knowledge Base article
suggests going for 6 pages per sheet, but that will produce too small a
page size.
 
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