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Printing and Folding a 40 Page Booklet in WORD 2003
Hello everyone!
First, a general thank you for all of the suggestions in this forum. Second, help! I am making a pocket sized booklet with 40 pages of information. The final booklet will be 4.25 x 5.5 inches. I have laid out my 40 page document using the following settings in the PAGE SETUP MENU: - landscape orientation - book fold - 40 sheets per booklet In the PAGE SETUP "OPTIONS" DIALOG BOX I choose "front of sheet" in the OPTIONS FOR DUPLEX PRINTING area. My computer is networked to our office copier. When I send the file to print I go to the printer properties dialog box and I choose: - N-up: OFF - Duplex/Booklet: Booklet Left Binding Five pages come out of the copier. When I fold these pages they are numbered incorrectly. The backside of page 1 is page 22. The backside of page 1 should be page 2. The first sheet that comes off the copier has a page structure that looks like this: top left: page 20 top right: page 21 bottom left: page 40 bottom right: page 1 Depending on the way the pages are set the backside of the sheet is upside down. But never the right kind of upside down. Since I'm using Word 2003 I figure I should be able to use these booklet features. I visited the "Booklet Printing" on the MVP page. But it seems to be for Word 2002. I assume that I am folding these sheets incorrectly. But I know it must be more than that. When I play with the setting the placement of the pages changes. I know I just need to find the right setting. Can you please tell me if I'm on the right track? If so, please lead me further! Thank you in advance, Laura Glazer |
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If you're combining Word's "book fold" feature with your printer's booklet
feature, I'm not surprised the results are unpredictable. -- 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. "Laura Glazer" Laura wrote in message news  Hello everyone! First, a general thank you for all of the suggestions in this forum. Second, help! I am making a pocket sized booklet with 40 pages of information. The final booklet will be 4.25 x 5.5 inches. I have laid out my 40 page document using the following settings in the PAGE SETUP MENU: - landscape orientation - book fold - 40 sheets per booklet In the PAGE SETUP "OPTIONS" DIALOG BOX I choose "front of sheet" in the OPTIONS FOR DUPLEX PRINTING area. My computer is networked to our office copier. When I send the file to I go to the printer properties dialog box and I choose: - N-up: OFF - Duplex/Booklet: Booklet Left Binding Five pages come out of the copier. When I fold these pages they are numbered incorrectly. The backside of page 1 is page 22. The backside of page 1 should be page 2. The first sheet that comes off the copier has a page structure that looks like this: top left: page 20 top right: page 21 bottom left: page 40 bottom right: page 1 Depending on the way the pages are set the backside of the sheet is upside down. But never the right kind of upside down. Since I'm using Word 2003 I figure I should be able to use these booklet features. I visited the "Booklet Printing" on the MVP page. But it seems to be for Word 2002. I assume that I am folding these sheets incorrectly. But I know it must be more than that. When I play with the setting the placement of the pages changes. I know I just need to find the right setting. Can you please tell me if I'm on the right track? If so, please lead me further! Thank you in advance, Laura Glazer |
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Hello!
Thank you for such speedy replies to my post. I reprinted the booklet using the Word 2003 instructions included in the link. However, those instructions are for a large booklet. I am making a 4.25 x 5.5 inch booklet. Suzanne, I don't think I'm using my copier/printer's booklet feature. I am doing exactly as I indicated in my original email, using the dialog boxes available through Word 2003. When I print following the provided instructions with the settings on "booklet left side" I am still getting confusing results which I describe in my previous post. If you don't mind, could you please address some of the details I provided? I am following the instructions that Word provides yet my results are unsatisfactory. Is Word not capable of printing a small booklet despite its indication that it can? The pages that should be upside down and on the back of other pages are not doing so. Please help! Laura Glazer "Mary Sauer" wrote: This is for Word 2003 http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...729491033.aspx -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Laura Glazer" Laura wrote in message news Hello everyone! First, a general thank you for all of the suggestions in this forum. Second, help! I am making a pocket sized booklet with 40 pages of information. The final booklet will be 4.25 x 5.5 inches. I have laid out my 40 page document using the following settings in the PAGE SETUP MENU: - landscape orientation - book fold - 40 sheets per booklet In the PAGE SETUP "OPTIONS" DIALOG BOX I choose "front of sheet" in the OPTIONS FOR DUPLEX PRINTING area. My computer is networked to our office copier. When I send the file to print I go to the printer properties dialog box and I choose: - N-up: OFF - Duplex/Booklet: Booklet Left Binding Five pages come out of the copier. When I fold these pages they are numbered incorrectly. The backside of page 1 is page 22. The backside of page 1 should be page 2. The first sheet that comes off the copier has a page structure that looks like this: top left: page 20 top right: page 21 bottom left: page 40 bottom right: page 1 Depending on the way the pages are set the backside of the sheet is upside down. But never the right kind of upside down. Since I'm using Word 2003 I figure I should be able to use these booklet features. I visited the "Booklet Printing" on the MVP page. But it seems to be for Word 2002. I assume that I am folding these sheets incorrectly. But I know it must be more than that. When I play with the setting the placement of the pages changes. I know I just need to find the right setting. Can you please tell me if I'm on the right track? If so, please lead me further! Thank you in advance, Laura Glazer |
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Have you tried NOT checking the "Front of sheet" duplex option? From my
experience and understand of this duplex option, it could cause the exact behavior that you are seeing. I am curious why you checked this option in the first place. Also, you mention you are enabling your printer driver's "Duplex/Booklet: Booklet Left Binding" option. Enabling this feature in the printer driver while using the native booklet printing in Word would probably cause strange results. "Laura Glazer" wrote: I am making a pocket sized booklet with 40 pages of information. The final booklet will be 4.25 x 5.5 inches. I have laid out my 40 page document using the following settings in the PAGE SETUP MENU: - landscape orientation - book fold - 40 sheets per booklet In the PAGE SETUP "OPTIONS" DIALOG BOX I choose "front of sheet" in the OPTIONS FOR DUPLEX PRINTING area. Five pages come out of the copier. When I fold these pages they are numbered incorrectly. The backside of page 1 is page 22. The backside of page 1 should be page 2. |
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I think you may have misunderstood what Word is doing or is capable of
doing. The reason I thought you might have a booklet setting in your printer driver was the "Duplex/Booklet: Booklet Left Binding" setting you cited. Word can create booklets by printing two pages side by side on one sheet. If your printer is capable of duplexing, you can then print the corresponding pages on the back of the same sheet, or you can manually duplex the pages. If your printer is capable of printing a 5.5" x 8.5" paper size, then you can print a small booklet this way. But Word cannot print four pages on an 8.5" x 11" sheet such that you can fold the pages the way you would a four-panel greeting card, which I suspect is what you're trying to do (from your description of Top Left, etc.). What Word will do if you use "Book fold" to create a 40-page booklet is print the following pairs: 40 and 1 2 and 39 38 and 3 Etc. As a general rule, it is easier to print the single-sided sheets and then use a copier or commercial printer to print duplex copies. -- 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. "Laura Glazer" wrote in message news Hello! Thank you for such speedy replies to my post. I reprinted the booklet using the Word 2003 instructions included in the link. However, those instructions are for a large booklet. I am making a 4.25 x 5.5 inch booklet. Suzanne, I don't think I'm using my copier/printer's booklet feature. I am doing exactly as I indicated in my original email, using the dialog boxes available through Word 2003. When I print following the provided instructions with the settings on "booklet left side" I am still getting confusing results which I describe in my previous post. If you don't mind, could you please address some of the details I provided? I am following the instructions that Word provides yet my results are unsatisfactory. Is Word not capable of printing a small booklet despite its indication that it can? The pages that should be upside down and on the back of other pages are not doing so. Please help! Laura Glazer "Mary Sauer" wrote: This is for Word 2003 http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...729491033.aspx -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Laura Glazer" Laura wrote in message news Hello everyone! First, a general thank you for all of the suggestions in this forum. Second, help! I am making a pocket sized booklet with 40 pages of information. The final booklet will be 4.25 x 5.5 inches. I have laid out my 40 page document using the following settings in the PAGE SETUP MENU: - landscape orientation - book fold - 40 sheets per booklet In the PAGE SETUP "OPTIONS" DIALOG BOX I choose "front of sheet" in the OPTIONS FOR DUPLEX PRINTING area. My computer is networked to our office copier. When I send the file to I go to the printer properties dialog box and I choose: - N-up: OFF - Duplex/Booklet: Booklet Left Binding Five pages come out of the copier. When I fold these pages they are numbered incorrectly. The backside of page 1 is page 22. The backside of page 1 should be page 2. The first sheet that comes off the copier has a page structure that looks like this: top left: page 20 top right: page 21 bottom left: page 40 bottom right: page 1 Depending on the way the pages are set the backside of the sheet is upside down. But never the right kind of upside down. Since I'm using Word 2003 I figure I should be able to use these booklet features. I visited the "Booklet Printing" on the MVP page. But it seems to be for Word 2002. I assume that I am folding these sheets incorrectly. But I know it must be more than that. When I play with the setting the placement of the pages changes. I know I just need to find the right setting. Can you please tell me if I'm on the right track? If so, please lead me further! Thank you in advance, Laura Glazer |
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Dear Suzanne,
Thank you for your reply. I had a hunch that I was trying to do something beyond the program's capabilities. I will proceed with the cutting and pasting. Thank you for your time and knowledge. I'd have gone through an entire ream of paper without you! Laura Glazer "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I think you may have misunderstood what Word is doing or is capable of doing. The reason I thought you might have a booklet setting in your printer driver was the "Duplex/Booklet: Booklet Left Binding" setting you cited. Word can create booklets by printing two pages side by side on one sheet. If your printer is capable of duplexing, you can then print the corresponding pages on the back of the same sheet, or you can manually duplex the pages. If your printer is capable of printing a 5.5" x 8.5" paper size, then you can print a small booklet this way. But Word cannot print four pages on an 8.5" x 11" sheet such that you can fold the pages the way you would a four-panel greeting card, which I suspect is what you're trying to do (from your description of Top Left, etc.). What Word will do if you use "Book fold" to create a 40-page booklet is print the following pairs: 40 and 1 2 and 39 38 and 3 Etc. As a general rule, it is easier to print the single-sided sheets and then use a copier or commercial printer to print duplex copies. -- 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. "Laura Glazer" wrote in message news Hello! Thank you for such speedy replies to my post. I reprinted the booklet using the Word 2003 instructions included in the link. However, those instructions are for a large booklet. I am making a 4.25 x 5.5 inch booklet. Suzanne, I don't think I'm using my copier/printer's booklet feature. I am doing exactly as I indicated in my original email, using the dialog boxes available through Word 2003. When I print following the provided instructions with the settings on "booklet left side" I am still getting confusing results which I describe in my previous post. If you don't mind, could you please address some of the details I provided? I am following the instructions that Word provides yet my results are unsatisfactory. Is Word not capable of printing a small booklet despite its indication that it can? The pages that should be upside down and on the back of other pages are not doing so. Please help! Laura Glazer "Mary Sauer" wrote: This is for Word 2003 http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...729491033.aspx -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Laura Glazer" Laura wrote in message news
Hello everyone!First, a general thank you for all of the suggestions in this forum. Second, help! I am making a pocket sized booklet with 40 pages of information. The final booklet will be 4.25 x 5.5 inches. I have laid out my 40 page document using the following settings in the PAGE SETUP MENU: - landscape orientation - book fold - 40 sheets per booklet In the PAGE SETUP "OPTIONS" DIALOG BOX I choose "front of sheet" in the OPTIONS FOR DUPLEX PRINTING area. My computer is networked to our office copier. When I send the file to I go to the printer properties dialog box and I choose: - N-up: OFF - Duplex/Booklet: Booklet Left Binding Five pages come out of the copier. When I fold these pages they are numbered incorrectly. The backside of page 1 is page 22. The backside of page 1 should be page 2. The first sheet that comes off the copier has a page structure that looks like this: top left: page 20 top right: page 21 bottom left: page 40 bottom right: page 1 Depending on the way the pages are set the backside of the sheet is upside down. But never the right kind of upside down. Since I'm using Word 2003 I figure I should be able to use these booklet features. I visited the "Booklet Printing" on the MVP page. But it seems to be for Word 2002. I assume that I am folding these sheets incorrectly. But I know it must be more than that. When I play with the setting the placement of the pages changes. I know I just need to find the right setting. Can you please tell me if I'm on the right track? If so, please lead me further! Thank you in advance, Laura Glazer |
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