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Suzanne S. Barnhill Suzanne S. Barnhill is offline
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Default print 2 landscape documents per A4 sheet

I find this setting incredibly handy for so many things. For example,
instead of trying to figure out how to feed the stupid inserts that come
with Avery name badges, I just use ordinary blank white 4" x 6" cards. I use
the Portrait layout (which produces two landscape "pages") to print two 3" x
4" inserts per card, then cut them. This would be handy for reusing the
badges even if you used the Avery inserts the first time around.

One big advantage to this approach is that you can have separate styles for
the First Name and Last Name (in my case, usually the First Name is in much
larger type), with the "Style for following paragraph" set so that they
alternate. With First Name formatted as "Page break before," you can type
quite a few badge inserts very quickly by just typing First Name, Enter,
Last Name, Enter, First Name, Enter... and so on. Much less automatic when
you work in a table (as used by the default label definition).

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

"difrankel" .(donotspam) wrote in message
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Thanks Suzanne! I hadn't seen that one, and it worked.
David

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You could use a similar approach, using the "2 pages per sheet" selection
under "Multiple pages" on the Margins tab of Page Setup. Again, you'd
have
to reduce the print size manually. You can either duplicate the first
page
on the second or enter Pages: "1,1" in the Print dialog.

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