[clapper]

I've read the book fold posts here but nothing has helped yet.

I run an IT Dept for goodness sakes, but I just cannot seem to make this
work. I'm about to go out of my mind and hope someone can help.

I have an 8 page document in Word 2003 that I'm trying to print as a folded
booklet. 4 pages to each single sheet of 8.5x11 paper. Printing in manual
duplex mode.

My pages are coming out in a crazy order and somtimes vaious pages just
don't print out at all. I'm consistently getting three sheets of paper being
printed on, even though with 8 pages, it should only be two. And I do
actually have 8 pages in my document, no more, no less.

As far as I can tell, I'm doing exactly what the Word Help instructions are
telling me to do. But what's being printed out makes no sense. For instance
(besides some pages never printing) my page 1 is always printed on the
left-hand side of a sheet of paper. Shouldn't it be on the right, as the
'cover' to the booklet?

This has to be something silly I'm missing, but I sure can't see it.

Any help?