Printing in reverse order

[Patrick Maxon]

I have printed out nearly 500 letters to be mailed out using mailmerge and
publisher. I would like to not run them through the printer again and print
address info on the reverse side so they can be run through a folding
machine and mailed out. PROBLEM: the list and the pages are in reverse order
and since I merged personal info on one side, the address side must
correspond. Can publisher print out in reverse? I have tried copies from
500 - 1 but it still print from 1 - 500. The original list was not sorted in
any manner, it was exported from a database. Suggestions please...

TIA

 

[Patrick Maxon]

I had thought about restacking... what a pain! I hate to reprint because it
was a laser color print job and that does not come cheap for me. Live and
learn I guess... Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Mike Koewler]

If Pub allows you to mail merge to a pdf, create a pdf of your
addresses. Acrobat Reader allows you to reverse the print order.

Mike

 

[IanRoy]

Hello Patrick;

Have you checked "Properties> Layout> Page Order" in your print dialog box?
I think it would depend on your printer/driver whether you have that option,
but both of mine have it. How reliable is that printer at separating sheets?

Good Luck,
IanRoy

 

[Patrick Maxon]

Pub doesn't seem to know what a pdf is... Thanks for the idea though Mike.

 

[Brian Kvalheim [MSFT MVP]]

Pub doesn't seem to know what a pdf is... Thanks for the idea though
Mike.

Publisher stand alone cannot import PDFs.
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[Patrick Maxon]

Stand alone? I don't understand... I have Office 2003.

 

[Brian Kvalheim [MSFT MVP]]

Stand alone? I don't understand... I have Office 2003.

If you go to scansoft.com and get the PDF Importer for Word, it's also
compatible with Publisher 2002/2003. There will be some formatting loss
though.
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[Patrick Maxon]

I can import the pdf of the addresses into Pub, but it is covered with
diagonal lines and I don't see how this would allow me to import the
different fields anyway. Maybe I'm not following here.

 

[Patrick Maxon]

I imported it as an object though.

I can import the pdf of the addresses into Pub, but it is covered with
diagonal lines and I don't see how this would allow me to import the
different fields anyway. Maybe I'm not following here.

 

[Mike Koewler]

Brian,

Who cares about importing a pdf? Output the addresses as a pdf, then use
Reader to reverse the print order. Let's not make this complicated!

Mike

 

[Patrick Maxon]

OK, I am creating a new report of the addresses in the format I need to
export to a pdf. Why would my report only pickup every 4th entry when my
query that I am creating the report from has all entries?

 

[Patrick Maxon]

Mike!
Got it to work and it worked wonderfully! Thank you so much for the idea!
Pat