[Mary Sauer]

There are some ideas here.
http://www.abcteach.com/directory/basics/flashcards/

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com

"MSE" wrote in message
news
Hi All,

Thank you for your feedback its very useful. Perhaps I should have made one
part of my question more specific. How would you recommend I format Word in
order to make flashcards? i.e. Page Setup, Paper, Width 5", Height 3", can
you think of a better approach?

Suzanne, you said, "All that is required is to create the fronts and backs
of the cards
in sequence as you would any other duplex document, then print as you
would any duplex document. You can use a duplexing printer or Word's
"Manual duplex" setting" Can you give me more detail about the steps I need
to take in order to create a duplex document in Word 2003 and use its manual
duplex setting?

Mary, I want to stay away from using perforated postcard stock as I think it
tends to be more expensive than 3x5 index cards. Am I mistaken? Please let
me know if I am. I have to print a lot of these flashcards so I am trying to
cut costs wherever I can.

Graham, thanks for the link and the Macro.

Sincerely,

Eddie


"Mary Sauer" wrote:

The poster asked the same question in the Publisher group. I suggested he use
the perforated postcard stock.

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
What he says is " I want to be able to take 20 index cards put them on the
printer tray and have MS Word print all 20 flashcards on both sides." To me
this implied that he was printing individual cards. I could, of course, be
wrong.

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

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
With 3" x 5" cards I was assuming about 4 to a sheet - hence the macro

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
No macro is really necessary if MSE is using individual index cards.
All that is required is to create the fronts and backs of the cards
in sequence as you would any other duplex document, then print as you
would any duplex document. You can use a duplexing printer or Word's
"Manual duplex" setting, or you can just print all the odd pages,
flip the output are reinsert, reverse the print order, and print the
even pages.

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
You will either need a duplexing printer or you will need to print
the fronts and backs separately. Either way you will need to ensure
that you have the correct data on the back of the correct label. For
that you will need a macro. See
http://www.gmayor.com/duplex_merge_data.htm --

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



MSE wrote:
I am trying to format MS Word to make flashcards. I want to create
a Word doc that will print, onto blank 3x5 index cards, The
vocabulary word, on the front and the vocabulary word definition on
the back? For example, let's say I type, 20 vocabulary words and their
definitions. I want to be able to take 20 index cards put them on
the printer tray and have MS Word print all 20 flashcards on both
sides.

In addition to looking for suggestions about how I should format MS
Word in order to do this, I am also wondering if you can recommend a
printer with the capability to print on both sides in one shot.

Do you have any ideas about how I might pull this off?