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I am trying to format MS Word to make flashcards. I want to create a Word
doc that will print, onto blank 3x5 index cards, The vocabulary word, on the front and the vocabulary word definition on the back? For example, lets say I type, 20 vocabulary words and their definitions. I want to be able to take 20 index cards put them on the printer tray and have MS Word print all 20 flashcards on both sides. In addition to looking for suggestions about how I should format MS Word in order to do this, I am also wondering if you can recommend a printer with the capability to print on both sides in one shot. Do you have any ideas about how I might pull this off? |
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You will either need a duplexing printer or you will need to print the
fronts and backs separately. Either way you will need to ensure that you have the correct data on the back of the correct label. For that you will need a macro. See http://www.gmayor.com/duplex_merge_data.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org MSE wrote: I am trying to format MS Word to make flashcards. I want to create a Word doc that will print, onto blank 3x5 index cards, The vocabulary word, on the front and the vocabulary word definition on the back? For example, let's say I type, 20 vocabulary words and their definitions. I want to be able to take 20 index cards put them on the printer tray and have MS Word print all 20 flashcards on both sides. In addition to looking for suggestions about how I should format MS Word in order to do this, I am also wondering if you can recommend a printer with the capability to print on both sides in one shot. Do you have any ideas about how I might pull this off? |
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No macro is really necessary if MSE is using individual index cards. All
that is required is to create the fronts and backs of the cards in sequence as you would any other duplex document, then print as you would any duplex document. You can use a duplexing printer or Word's "Manual duplex" setting, or you can just print all the odd pages, flip the output are reinsert, reverse the print order, and print the even pages. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You will either need a duplexing printer or you will need to print the fronts and backs separately. Either way you will need to ensure that you have the correct data on the back of the correct label. For that you will need a macro. See http://www.gmayor.com/duplex_merge_data.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org MSE wrote: I am trying to format MS Word to make flashcards. I want to create a Word doc that will print, onto blank 3x5 index cards, The vocabulary word, on the front and the vocabulary word definition on the back? For example, let's say I type, 20 vocabulary words and their definitions. I want to be able to take 20 index cards put them on the printer tray and have MS Word print all 20 flashcards on both sides. In addition to looking for suggestions about how I should format MS Word in order to do this, I am also wondering if you can recommend a printer with the capability to print on both sides in one shot. Do you have any ideas about how I might pull this off? |
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With 3" x 5" cards I was assuming about 4 to a sheet - hence the macro
 -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: No macro is really necessary if MSE is using individual index cards. All that is required is to create the fronts and backs of the cards in sequence as you would any other duplex document, then print as you would any duplex document. You can use a duplexing printer or Word's "Manual duplex" setting, or you can just print all the odd pages, flip the output are reinsert, reverse the print order, and print the even pages. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You will either need a duplexing printer or you will need to print the fronts and backs separately. Either way you will need to ensure that you have the correct data on the back of the correct label. For that you will need a macro. See http://www.gmayor.com/duplex_merge_data.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org MSE wrote: I am trying to format MS Word to make flashcards. I want to create a Word doc that will print, onto blank 3x5 index cards, The vocabulary word, on the front and the vocabulary word definition on the back? For example, let's say I type, 20 vocabulary words and their definitions. I want to be able to take 20 index cards put them on the printer tray and have MS Word print all 20 flashcards on both sides. In addition to looking for suggestions about how I should format MS Word in order to do this, I am also wondering if you can recommend a printer with the capability to print on both sides in one shot. Do you have any ideas about how I might pull this off? |
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What he says is " I want to be able to take 20 index cards put them on the
printer tray and have MS Word print all 20 flashcards on both sides." To me this implied that he was printing individual cards. I could, of course, be wrong. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... With 3" x 5" cards I was assuming about 4 to a sheet - hence the macro -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: No macro is really necessary if MSE is using individual index cards. All that is required is to create the fronts and backs of the cards in sequence as you would any other duplex document, then print as you would any duplex document. You can use a duplexing printer or Word's "Manual duplex" setting, or you can just print all the odd pages, flip the output are reinsert, reverse the print order, and print the even pages. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You will either need a duplexing printer or you will need to print the fronts and backs separately. Either way you will need to ensure that you have the correct data on the back of the correct label. For that you will need a macro. See http://www.gmayor.com/duplex_merge_data.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org MSE wrote: I am trying to format MS Word to make flashcards. I want to create a Word doc that will print, onto blank 3x5 index cards, The vocabulary word, on the front and the vocabulary word definition on the back? For example, let's say I type, 20 vocabulary words and their definitions. I want to be able to take 20 index cards put them on the printer tray and have MS Word print all 20 flashcards on both sides. In addition to looking for suggestions about how I should format MS Word in order to do this, I am also wondering if you can recommend a printer with the capability to print on both sides in one shot. Do you have any ideas about how I might pull this off? |
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The poster asked the same question in the Publisher group. I suggested he use
the perforated postcard stock. -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... What he says is " I want to be able to take 20 index cards put them on the printer tray and have MS Word print all 20 flashcards on both sides." To me this implied that he was printing individual cards. I could, of course, be wrong. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... With 3" x 5" cards I was assuming about 4 to a sheet - hence the macro -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: No macro is really necessary if MSE is using individual index cards. All that is required is to create the fronts and backs of the cards in sequence as you would any other duplex document, then print as you would any duplex document. You can use a duplexing printer or Word's "Manual duplex" setting, or you can just print all the odd pages, flip the output are reinsert, reverse the print order, and print the even pages. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You will either need a duplexing printer or you will need to print the fronts and backs separately. Either way you will need to ensure that you have the correct data on the back of the correct label. For that you will need a macro. See http://www.gmayor.com/duplex_merge_data.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org MSE wrote: I am trying to format MS Word to make flashcards. I want to create a Word doc that will print, onto blank 3x5 index cards, The vocabulary word, on the front and the vocabulary word definition on the back? For example, let's say I type, 20 vocabulary words and their definitions. I want to be able to take 20 index cards put them on the printer tray and have MS Word print all 20 flashcards on both sides. In addition to looking for suggestions about how I should format MS Word in order to do this, I am also wondering if you can recommend a printer with the capability to print on both sides in one shot. Do you have any ideas about how I might pull this off? |
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Hi All,
Thank you for your feedback its very useful. Perhaps I should have made one part of my question more specific. How would you recommend I format Word in order to make flashcards? i.e. Page Setup, Paper, Width 5", Height 3", can you think of a better approach? Suzanne, you said, "All that is required is to create the fronts and backs of the cards in sequence as you would any other duplex document, then print as you would any duplex document. You can use a duplexing printer or Word's "Manual duplex" setting" Can you give me more detail about the steps I need to take in order to create a duplex document in Word 2003 and use its manual duplex setting? Mary, I want to stay away from using perforated postcard stock as I think it tends to be more expensive than 3x5 index cards. Am I mistaken? Please let me know if I am. I have to print a lot of these flashcards so I am trying to cut costs wherever I can. Graham, thanks for the link and Macro. Sincerely, Eddie "Mary Sauer" wrote: The poster asked the same question in the Publisher group. I suggested he use the perforated postcard stock. -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... What he says is " I want to be able to take 20 index cards put them on the printer tray and have MS Word print all 20 flashcards on both sides." To me this implied that he was printing individual cards. I could, of course, be wrong. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... With 3" x 5" cards I was assuming about 4 to a sheet - hence the macro -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: No macro is really necessary if MSE is using individual index cards. All that is required is to create the fronts and backs of the cards in sequence as you would any other duplex document, then print as you would any duplex document. You can use a duplexing printer or Word's "Manual duplex" setting, or you can just print all the odd pages, flip the output are reinsert, reverse the print order, and print the even pages. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You will either need a duplexing printer or you will need to print the fronts and backs separately. Either way you will need to ensure that you have the correct data on the back of the correct label. For that you will need a macro. See http://www.gmayor.com/duplex_merge_data.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org MSE wrote: I am trying to format MS Word to make flashcards. I want to create a Word doc that will print, onto blank 3x5 index cards, The vocabulary word, on the front and the vocabulary word definition on the back? For example, let's say I type, 20 vocabulary words and their definitions. I want to be able to take 20 index cards put them on the printer tray and have MS Word print all 20 flashcards on both sides. In addition to looking for suggestions about how I should format MS Word in order to do this, I am also wondering if you can recommend a printer with the capability to print on both sides in one shot. Do you have any ideas about how I might pull this off? |
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Hi All,
Thank you for your feedback its very useful. Perhaps I should have made one part of my question more specific. How would you recommend I format Word in order to make flashcards? i.e. Page Setup, Paper, Width 5", Height 3", can you think of a better approach? Suzanne, you said, "All that is required is to create the fronts and backs of the cards in sequence as you would any other duplex document, then print as you would any duplex document. You can use a duplexing printer or Word's "Manual duplex" setting" Can you give me more detail about the steps I need to take in order to create a duplex document in Word 2003 and use its manual duplex setting? Mary, I want to stay away from using perforated postcard stock as I think it tends to be more expensive than 3x5 index cards. Am I mistaken? Please let me know if I am. I have to print a lot of these flashcards so I am trying to cut costs wherever I can. Graham, thanks for the link and the Macro. Sincerely, Eddie "Mary Sauer" wrote: The poster asked the same question in the Publisher group. I suggested he use the perforated postcard stock. -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... What he says is " I want to be able to take 20 index cards put them on the printer tray and have MS Word print all 20 flashcards on both sides." To me this implied that he was printing individual cards. I could, of course, be wrong. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... With 3" x 5" cards I was assuming about 4 to a sheet - hence the macro -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: No macro is really necessary if MSE is using individual index cards. All that is required is to create the fronts and backs of the cards in sequence as you would any other duplex document, then print as you would any duplex document. You can use a duplexing printer or Word's "Manual duplex" setting, or you can just print all the odd pages, flip the output are reinsert, reverse the print order, and print the even pages. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You will either need a duplexing printer or you will need to print the fronts and backs separately. Either way you will need to ensure that you have the correct data on the back of the correct label. For that you will need a macro. See http://www.gmayor.com/duplex_merge_data.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org MSE wrote: I am trying to format MS Word to make flashcards. I want to create a Word doc that will print, onto blank 3x5 index cards, The vocabulary word, on the front and the vocabulary word definition on the back? For example, let's say I type, 20 vocabulary words and their definitions. I want to be able to take 20 index cards put them on the printer tray and have MS Word print all 20 flashcards on both sides. In addition to looking for suggestions about how I should format MS Word in order to do this, I am also wondering if you can recommend a printer with the capability to print on both sides in one shot. Do you have any ideas about how I might pull this off? |
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There are some ideas here.
http://www.abcteach.com/directory/basics/flashcards/ -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "MSE" wrote in message news  Hi All, Thank you for your feedback its very useful. Perhaps I should have made one part of my question more specific. How would you recommend I format Word in order to make flashcards? i.e. Page Setup, Paper, Width 5", Height 3", can you think of a better approach? Suzanne, you said, "All that is required is to create the fronts and backs of the cards in sequence as you would any other duplex document, then print as you would any duplex document. You can use a duplexing printer or Word's "Manual duplex" setting" Can you give me more detail about the steps I need to take in order to create a duplex document in Word 2003 and use its manual duplex setting? Mary, I want to stay away from using perforated postcard stock as I think it tends to be more expensive than 3x5 index cards. Am I mistaken? Please let me know if I am. I have to print a lot of these flashcards so I am trying to cut costs wherever I can. Graham, thanks for the link and the Macro. Sincerely, Eddie "Mary Sauer" wrote: The poster asked the same question in the Publisher group. I suggested he use the perforated postcard stock. -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... What he says is " I want to be able to take 20 index cards put them on the printer tray and have MS Word print all 20 flashcards on both sides." To me this implied that he was printing individual cards. I could, of course, be wrong. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... With 3" x 5" cards I was assuming about 4 to a sheet - hence the macro -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: No macro is really necessary if MSE is using individual index cards. All that is required is to create the fronts and backs of the cards in sequence as you would any other duplex document, then print as you would any duplex document. You can use a duplexing printer or Word's "Manual duplex" setting, or you can just print all the odd pages, flip the output are reinsert, reverse the print order, and print the even pages. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You will either need a duplexing printer or you will need to print the fronts and backs separately. Either way you will need to ensure that you have the correct data on the back of the correct label. For that you will need a macro. See http://www.gmayor.com/duplex_merge_data.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org MSE wrote: I am trying to format MS Word to make flashcards. I want to create a Word doc that will print, onto blank 3x5 index cards, The vocabulary word, on the front and the vocabulary word definition on the back? For example, let's say I type, 20 vocabulary words and their definitions. I want to be able to take 20 index cards put them on the printer tray and have MS Word print all 20 flashcards on both sides. In addition to looking for suggestions about how I should format MS Word in order to do this, I am also wondering if you can recommend a printer with the capability to print on both sides in one shot. Do you have any ideas about how I might pull this off? |
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Assuming your printer can handle the 3" x 5" paper size, then just select
that size for your document. When you go to print, check the box for "Manual duplex" in the Print dialog. I've never actually used this, but according to Word's Help, "Manual duplex Enables you to print a document on both sides of the paper if you don't have a duplex printer. After printing one side, Word prompts you to feed the paper again." This in effect just automates the process I described of printing the odd pages, flipping, then printing the even pages in reverse order. If the 3x5 size is not one supported by your printer by an actual paper stock definition but within its paper-handling skills, you can still print to that size from Word; you'll have to set the page to the next larger size accommodated by the printer and make up the difference with margins. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "MSE" wrote in message ... Hi All, Thank you for your feedback its very useful. Perhaps I should have made one part of my question more specific. How would you recommend I format Word in order to make flashcards? i.e. Page Setup, Paper, Width 5", Height 3", can you think of a better approach? Suzanne, you said, "All that is required is to create the fronts and backs of the cards in sequence as you would any other duplex document, then print as you would any duplex document. You can use a duplexing printer or Word's "Manual duplex" setting" Can you give me more detail about the steps I need to take in order to create a duplex document in Word 2003 and use its manual duplex setting? Mary, I want to stay away from using perforated postcard stock as I think it tends to be more expensive than 3x5 index cards. Am I mistaken? Please let me know if I am. I have to print a lot of these flashcards so I am trying to cut costs wherever I can. Graham, thanks for the link and Macro. Sincerely, Eddie "Mary Sauer" wrote: The poster asked the same question in the Publisher group. I suggested he use the perforated postcard stock. -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... What he says is " I want to be able to take 20 index cards put them on the printer tray and have MS Word print all 20 flashcards on both sides." To me this implied that he was printing individual cards. I could, of course, be wrong. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... With 3" x 5" cards I was assuming about 4 to a sheet - hence the macro -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: No macro is really necessary if MSE is using individual index cards. All that is required is to create the fronts and backs of the cards in sequence as you would any other duplex document, then print as you would any duplex document. You can use a duplexing printer or Word's "Manual duplex" setting, or you can just print all the odd pages, flip the output are reinsert, reverse the print order, and print the even pages. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You will either need a duplexing printer or you will need to print the fronts and backs separately. Either way you will need to ensure that you have the correct data on the back of the correct label. For that you will need a macro. See http://www.gmayor.com/duplex_merge_data.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org MSE wrote: I am trying to format MS Word to make flashcards. I want to create a Word doc that will print, onto blank 3x5 index cards, The vocabulary word, on the front and the vocabulary word definition on the back? For example, let's say I type, 20 vocabulary words and their definitions. I want to be able to take 20 index cards put them on the printer tray and have MS Word print all 20 flashcards on both sides. In addition to looking for suggestions about how I should format MS Word in order to do this, I am also wondering if you can recommend a printer with the capability to print on both sides in one shot. Do you have any ideas about how I might pull this off? |
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