Printing a book with Publisher 2003

[estilein]

I'm getting a little ambitious on one of my first times out of the gate using
Publisher 2003 SP3 and need some help. I've read through all the postings
under "book" and "booklet", but am not finding a similar question, so am
asking myself.

I have a 350-ish page book that I'd like to print and self-bind. I'm trying
to determine how to print the quires in groups of 8 pieces of paper without
having to rearrange all the pages manually. Since I used the auto-flow
feature to insert the Word document, I'm not sure what the consequences of
that would be. For those that don't know what a quire is, it's a measure of
paper quantity. Basically, you print the book out in sections that you fold
and sew together, so the page numbers would go something like (sheet 1: 32,
1, 2, 31 / sheet 2: 30, 3, 4, 29 / 28, 5, 6, 27 / 26, 7, 8, 25 / 24, 9, 10,
23 / 22, 11, 12, 21 / 20, 13, 14, 19 / 18, 15, 16, 17) for the first eight
pieces of paper, and then (64, 33, 34, 63 / 62, 35, 36, 61 / 60, 37, 38, 59 /
58, 39, 40, 57 / 56, 41, 42, 55 / 54, 43, 44, 53 / 52, 45, 46, 51 / 50, 47,
48, 49) for the second set of eight, and so on for all 348 pages. Is there a
way to automate this process? I went to Publisher instead of Word because it
put the booklet pages on the right sheets when I tried this with a smaller
document. Didn't think about scaling issues when I started this project.

Any ideas would be most welcomed! Thanks!

 

[Mary Sauer]

I suspect the only way to do this is to delete pages 33-348. Save the result.
Open the 348 publication again, delete selected pages, save the result and so
on. You are going to have problems if all your text boxes are linked. Even if
Publisher could do what you are asking; if your text box spans pages 32 and 33
you will lose the link.
Long documents are best done in Word. Word has a book fold layout; as long as
you are not inserting many images it may be the way to go. You probably will
have the option to print sections.

 

[estilein]

Thanks for the quick response, Mary! You guys and gals are impressive!

I was afraid you were going to say that. I went back to Word and found the
box fold since there are zero graphics, but it doesn't print the way I want
it to either, at least not that I can figure out how to do. Will have to play
with it some more, but for now, I'm frustrated and quitting for a while. I
appreciate the suggestion!