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Page Layout for 4.25" X 5.5" Booklet-- How to Make Easy to Col
Suzanne,
I'm using Word 2000 and trying to do about the same thing. While I would like my booklet to be 4.25 x 5.5, I would like to print back-to-back, collated pages so that I may then fold the pages, staple them in the middle and be able to flip through the booklet with page numbers inserted. Is this possible in Word 2000? Jason Jason "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If this is Word 2000 or above, set up the pages as full-size sheets, then use the "4 pages per sheet option in the Print dialog. This would require some experimentation to get the proportions right (it's much easier with European A sizes), and you would have to enter the page numbers as 1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3, etc.; so this would not be a trivial operation, but it might still be easier than replicating the pages in table cells (especially since it allows you to have true headers/footers/page numbers, etc.). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Bo_Jack" wrote in message ... I would like to do the following with WORD (or any other appropriate OFFICE product): Set up a document with page size 4.25 X 5.5 in landscape orientation. Type up the document and get the lay-out of the 4.25 X 5.5 pages looking right. THEN When I print the document, I want to feed 8.5 X 11 paper into the printer and have the booklets "page 1" printed 4 times on the first sheet (one time in each of the four quadrants of an evenly divided sheet, have the booklet's "page 2" printed 4 times on the second sheet (one time in each quadrant), etc. The reason that I want to do this is that I need to produce a booklet with page dimensions of 4.25 X 5.5, and I want (a) to minimize the amount of paper stock used and (b) to have the booklet come out of the printer collated correctly. If I can get the sheets printed in the way described, then after one set of paper sheets has been printed in the correct order, I can cut the sheets along the quadrant lines and have four complete, collated booklets. I have been able to accomplish what I want using a brute force method of setting up table cells of the correct size (4-cells per sheet), typing the wording for each page in the upper left hand cell of each sheet, then manually copy-and-pasting the words from the first cell into the other three cells on that sheet. However, this is a really awkward way to accomplish my goal. It also is very error prone if some of the text needs later to be changed. Can anyone provide me with guidance on how to do this more efficiently? Thanks for any suggestions. -- Best Regards, Bo_Jack |
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I think you would find this far more difficult than it is worth because some
of the pages would have to be printed upside-down, and this is absolutely non-trivial in Word. You might have better success with Publisher, which is better set up to handle this type of layout (in four-panel greeting cards, for example). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jason" wrote in message ... Suzanne, I'm using Word 2000 and trying to do about the same thing. While I would like my booklet to be 4.25 x 5.5, I would like to print back-to-back, collated pages so that I may then fold the pages, staple them in the middle and be able to flip through the booklet with page numbers inserted. Is this possible in Word 2000? Jason Jason "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If this is Word 2000 or above, set up the pages as full-size sheets, then use the "4 pages per sheet option in the Print dialog. This would require some experimentation to get the proportions right (it's much easier with European A sizes), and you would have to enter the page numbers as 1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3, etc.; so this would not be a trivial operation, but it might still be easier than replicating the pages in table cells (especially since it allows you to have true headers/footers/page numbers, etc.). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Bo_Jack" wrote in message ... I would like to do the following with WORD (or any other appropriate OFFICE product): Set up a document with page size 4.25 X 5.5 in landscape orientation. Type up the document and get the lay-out of the 4.25 X 5.5 pages looking right. THEN When I print the document, I want to feed 8.5 X 11 paper into the printer and have the booklets "page 1" printed 4 times on the first sheet (one time in each of the four quadrants of an evenly divided sheet, have the booklet's "page 2" printed 4 times on the second sheet (one time in each quadrant), etc. The reason that I want to do this is that I need to produce a booklet with page dimensions of 4.25 X 5.5, and I want (a) to minimize the amount of paper stock used and (b) to have the booklet come out of the printer collated correctly. If I can get the sheets printed in the way described, then after one set of paper sheets has been printed in the correct order, I can cut the sheets along the quadrant lines and have four complete, collated booklets. I have been able to accomplish what I want using a brute force method of setting up table cells of the correct size (4-cells per sheet), typing the wording for each page in the upper left hand cell of each sheet, then manually copy-and-pasting the words from the first cell into the other three cells on that sheet. However, this is a really awkward way to accomplish my goal. It also is very error prone if some of the text needs later to be changed. Can anyone provide me with guidance on how to do this more efficiently? Thanks for any suggestions. -- Best Regards, Bo_Jack |
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Okay, Suzanne. I appreciate it. I think I will just type it up, print two
pages per sheet and do some cutting, pasting, then copying at Staples. Thank you for your help. Jason Owings Mills, Maryland Owings Mills, Maryland "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I think you would find this far more difficult than it is worth because some of the pages would have to be printed upside-down, and this is absolutely non-trivial in Word. You might have better success with Publisher, which is better set up to handle this type of layout (in four-panel greeting cards, for example). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jason" wrote in message ... Suzanne, I'm using Word 2000 and trying to do about the same thing. While I would like my booklet to be 4.25 x 5.5, I would like to print back-to-back, collated pages so that I may then fold the pages, staple them in the middle and be able to flip through the booklet with page numbers inserted. Is this possible in Word 2000? Jason Jason "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If this is Word 2000 or above, set up the pages as full-size sheets, then use the "4 pages per sheet option in the Print dialog. This would require some experimentation to get the proportions right (it's much easier with European A sizes), and you would have to enter the page numbers as 1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3, etc.; so this would not be a trivial operation, but it might still be easier than replicating the pages in table cells (especially since it allows you to have true headers/footers/page numbers, etc.). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Bo_Jack" wrote in message ... I would like to do the following with WORD (or any other appropriate OFFICE product): Set up a document with page size 4.25 X 5.5 in landscape orientation. Type up the document and get the lay-out of the 4.25 X 5.5 pages looking right. THEN When I print the document, I want to feed 8.5 X 11 paper into the printer and have the booklets "page 1" printed 4 times on the first sheet (one time in each of the four quadrants of an evenly divided sheet, have the booklet's "page 2" printed 4 times on the second sheet (one time in each quadrant), etc. The reason that I want to do this is that I need to produce a booklet with page dimensions of 4.25 X 5.5, and I want (a) to minimize the amount of paper stock used and (b) to have the booklet come out of the printer collated correctly. If I can get the sheets printed in the way described, then after one set of paper sheets has been printed in the correct order, I can cut the sheets along the quadrant lines and have four complete, collated booklets. I have been able to accomplish what I want using a brute force method of setting up table cells of the correct size (4-cells per sheet), typing the wording for each page in the upper left hand cell of each sheet, then manually copy-and-pasting the words from the first cell into the other three cells on that sheet. However, this is a really awkward way to accomplish my goal. It also is very error prone if some of the text needs later to be changed. Can anyone provide me with guidance on how to do this more efficiently? Thanks for any suggestions. -- Best Regards, Bo_Jack |
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