[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Whether Word "figures it out" or not depends on the settings. If you choose
the default "All" for the number of pages, it's up to you to make sure you
have a correct number.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"grammatim" wrote in message
...
It happened to come out to 36 pages. But if it had come out to 33
pages, would Word really not have been able to figure out it needed to
add three blank sides at the end? Reader has no problem with that.

It must be a printer thing, because on the All-in-One it printed
immediately.

On Sep 22, 9:17 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Seehttp://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/UnaccountablyIndented.htmfor a
likely explanation of your indention.

No, because the header containing the page number is still there (and
is set to the proper right margin).

If it were FrameMaker, I would go to the Master page and delete the
extra text frame that might have somehow gotten in during a
reformatting. But we don't have Master pages.

Not knowing how complex your document is, I don't know why it might still
be
spooling. I assume you did take care to assure that the number of pages in
the booklet was a multiple of 4?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"grammatim" wrote in message

...
Ok, so I invoked Book Fold on an article that just came back
copyedited from the editors. The formatting seems to have gone ok --
but after 6 minutes after clicking Print, it's still "spooling."

However, a very strange thing has happened. The file was Word2003
(because it was written almost two years ago), so I saved it as
Word2007. And the first text line of every page is indented from the
right margin by 1/8". Since Text Outlines are showing, I can see that
there is an outline around the four sides of that first line. The line
ends with a space, so it's not a separate paragraph or line break. The
indentation is not recognized in the horizontal ruler; there is no
margin or paragraph indent to change.

The lines will presumably not print (they don't appear in Print
Preview), but the first line of every page is indented from the right
margin.

It's now 10 min. since it was sent to the printer, and nothing is
happening.

On Sep 22, 10:58 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:



Well, just to clarify, my responses above have been intended to address
your
misunderstanding of how the "Book fold" option works. But it seems there
are
really only two choices for making a half-sheet booklet out of a
full-size
existing "book": you can either reflow the text at its current size, or,
to
preserve the page layout, you can reduce everything on the page (for
example, by using "2 pages per sheet" in the Print dialog), which you
say
makes it unreadable (very likely true).

But if you increase the text size in the reduced version (as you
suggested),
doesn't that also change the existing page layout? Note that in this
scenario it's not necessary to reduce the margins because they'll
already
have been reduced proportionally as part of the shrinking process.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"grammatim" wrote in message

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Nope -- see the initial query in this thread: "I have a number of
documents I have in Word 2007. I would like to print these in booklet
form."

On Sep 21, 6:34 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

It does depend on what you're trying to do, of course, and you can use
the
"Zoom to print" setting in Word for what you're trying to do, but the
questions here are about creating a booklet from scratch.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"grammatim" wrote in message

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Ugh, that's awful! When I've made a page, I've made it look the way I
want it! If it gets "reflowed," it can't possibly be for the better!
Preumably if you choose "Book Fold" before starting, you're working in
the miniature format from the start, so WYSIWYG. But that won't be
useful for someone who wants to print an existing multipage document
as a booklet. For them, Reader is the way to go. (I've printed quite a
few google books as 32-page-signature sets of booklets, and two guides
for giant fonts of ancient characters as single 84-page booklets. When
I discovered this booklet printing capability last year, I bought a
long-reach stapler that puts staples right on the fold.)

On Sep 21, 4:01 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

I take it you have not tried this? When you choose "Book fold," Word
formats
the page into two 5.5" x 8.5" pages. If you had already created the
document, it reflows your text into those pages at the same size,
with
the
same margins, which is why you need to reduce the margins and
(probably)
the
font size.

Both "Book fold" and "2 pages per sheet" in Page Setup are quite
different
from "2 pages per sheet" in the Print dialog, which reduces a full
page
to
half-page size. The "2 pages per sheet" and "Book fold" settings
create
two
small pages from one full-sized one.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"grammatim" wrote in message

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When you reduce a page to fit two of them onto a booklet sheet, you
reduce the type to near-unreadability!

Don't tell me that in order to do a booklet in Word, you need to be
working on 5.5 x 8.5 page size to start with?

On Sep 21, 9:11 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:

Why do you say increase the type size? I generally use smaller
type
on
smaller pages/in narrower columns. In most cases 12-pt is okay for
either
a
full page or a half page in a directory or "yearbook," but for a
printed
7"
x 9" book, I usually find 11-pt more suitable.

"grammatim" wrote in message

...
Reduce the margins and increase the type size.

On Sep 20, 11:47 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:

I usually use the "All" choice for "Sheets per booklet." Just
keep
in
mind
that they need to be a multiple of 4. Unless you have a printer
that
duplexes automatically, your best bet is to print just one side
of
a
page
and duplex by photocopying, but you could experiment with Word's
"Manual
duplex" setting.

As for the number of pages, when you go to create a booklet,
keep
in
mind
that you will probably want to reduce the margins and type size
from
what
you would use for a full-sized page.

David wrote in
messagenews:mm1bd457k6itunt9o2ni8rrb2n057fguln@4ax .com...
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:36:12 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:

Have you tried the "Book fold" feature that is built into
Word?
On
the
Margins tab of Page Setup, choose "Book fold" for "Multiple
pages."
Word
will set up your document with two pages per sheet. You will
create
the
pages in ordinary numerical order, but Word will print them in
the
order
required for folding into a booklet.

This feature works reasonably well provided you are printing
the
entire
booklet. Most users report disappointing results trying to
reprint
specific
pages. For another approach, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...etPrinting.htm. This
method
will
work in any version.

You can also set this up manually using "2 pages per sheet" in
the
"Multiple
pages" dropdown. This will create pages in numerical order,
and
you
can
print them in the required order by entering 8, 1, 2, 7, 6, 3,
4,
5
in
the
"Pages" box in the Print dialog. There is also a macro at the
above-referenced site that automates this process.

Suzanne:

The method you described using Word 2007's "Book Fold" feature
works
well. The number of pages increases, but that was good as Word
apparently adjusted to make the printed copy quite readable.

However, how can I force Word to just print the front or back
side
of
the document? The test print I ran printed every page. I quess
I
could feed the pages into my copier, but that would be a waste
of
paper.

Also, in Page Setup, I was asked about Sheets per booklet. Do
I
want
"Auto", "All", or one of the numerical choices.-----