I think that, as Peter implies, it's not Word but your printer driver that's
responsible for the shrinkage. I have had that problem when printing to an
inkjet printer with an unprintable area smaller than my margins (I don't
experience the problem with my laser printer).
Do you get the same result if you use the "2 pages per sheet" option in Page
Setup rather than the Print dialog? Note that the Print dialog option is
intended to shrink A4 documents to print twice on an A4 sheet. The Page
Layout option, however, allows you to create your A5 documents normally, and
print them 2-up.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Veerle" wrote in message
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Hi,
I need to print an A5 document on A4 sheets with 2 A5 pages on one
sheet. So I tried the print 2 pages on one sheet functionality of
Word. Since an A5 sheet has exactly half the size of an A4 sheet; when
I cut the A4 sheet in two; a should be left with two A5 sheets as I
designed them in Word. But that is not the case, since Word shrinks
the two A5 sheets a bit and create an extra margin around them. I
would like for Word not to add any extra margins, just print the two
A5s on the A4 sheet, next to one another, so that when I cut the page
in two, I am left with two pages that have the exact layout of my A5
document in Word.
Any idea on how I can accomplish that? Or should I just create an A4
page with two columns an go with it like that? I hope not...
Kind regards,
Veerle