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How do I make a 4.25" x 5.5" booklet with Word 2000?
Is this possible or am I using the wrong program? I am trying to print a
4.25" x 5.5" sized, 16 or 20 page booklet using regular 8.5 x 11 sized paper. This puts four pages on each sheet of paper and I need to know how to layout the pages so that they come out in the right order when I stack the sheets and fold them in half. |
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How do I make a 4.25" x 5.5" booklet with Word 2000?
There is no built-in way to do this in Word, and I think you will find it
more trouble than it's worth (not to mention that a 20-page booklet would be impossible with this imposition--it would have to be 16 or 24). -- 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. "AutumnFire1" wrote in message ... Is this possible or am I using the wrong program? I am trying to print a 4.25" x 5.5" sized, 16 or 20 page booklet using regular 8.5 x 11 sized paper. This puts four pages on each sheet of paper and I need to know how to layout the pages so that they come out in the right order when I stack the sheets and fold them in half. |
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How do I make a 4.25" x 5.5" booklet with Word 2000?
AutumnFire1 spake thus:
Is this possible or am I using the wrong program? I am trying to print a 4.25" x 5.5" sized, 16 or 20 page booklet using regular 8.5 x 11 sized paper. This puts four pages on each sheet of paper and I need to know how to layout the pages so that they come out in the right order when I stack the sheets and fold them in half. First of all; yes, you're using the wrong program. Word is extremely weak in this area. This job would be much more easily and rapidly done with a *real* page-layout program, like Adobe InDesign. (Forget Publisher--it's a piece of ****.) Having said that, you may be like me, in that you're not particularly eager to shell out $$$ for new software. Someone wrote a clever macro that lets Word print booklets: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...etPrinting.htm. Warning: you need to know at least enough about VBA ("Word Basic") and macros to get yourself into trouble, and probably a little more to get yourself out of trouble. The macro does work. Any problems you encounter are going to be just with setting up the document to print correctly (correct location on the sheets, etc.). And a 20-page booklet is no problem: first of all, booklets like the one you want to print come in multiples of 4 pages, and besides, the macro will pad your document to the nearest 4-page boundary with blank pages anyhow. Give it a whirl. |
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How do I make a 4.25" x 5.5" booklet with Word 2000?
I found a utility that will do this called ClickBook (www.clickbook.com). I
wish Word could do it. This utility costs $50. "David Nebenzahl" wrote: AutumnFire1 spake thus: Is this possible or am I using the wrong program? I am trying to print a 4.25" x 5.5" sized, 16 or 20 page booklet using regular 8.5 x 11 sized paper. This puts four pages on each sheet of paper and I need to know how to layout the pages so that they come out in the right order when I stack the sheets and fold them in half. First of all; yes, you're using the wrong program. Word is extremely weak in this area. This job would be much more easily and rapidly done with a *real* page-layout program, like Adobe InDesign. (Forget Publisher--it's a piece of ****.) Having said that, you may be like me, in that you're not particularly eager to shell out $$$ for new software. Someone wrote a clever macro that lets Word print booklets: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...etPrinting.htm. Warning: you need to know at least enough about VBA ("Word Basic") and macros to get yourself into trouble, and probably a little more to get yourself out of trouble. The macro does work. Any problems you encounter are going to be just with setting up the document to print correctly (correct location on the sheets, etc.). And a 20-page booklet is no problem: first of all, booklets like the one you want to print come in multiples of 4 pages, and besides, the macro will pad your document to the nearest 4-page boundary with blank pages anyhow. Give it a whirl. |
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