Column Numbering in Word 1

[bobnplano]

Pardon my novice question, but I have requested help from you folks many times and been so very pleased. Here is my issue:

I am using Windows 10, Office Word 365 and I am a preacher and have been printing sermons in two columns in landscape format. I know how to set up for page numbering but I absolutely do not know how to set up my document to put page numbers for columns under the columns. I am used to using plain 8 1/2 x 11 paper and I read about setting up the printer to print 2 pages in A5 buy my I'm not sure what that means. I read about it in a forum but it made little sense to me. This is the link to the description that boggled my mind:

http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/Print2Pages.htm

Can someone give me a better solution in more layman terms? Again I apologize for my ignorance!

Thanking you in advance!

Bob

 

[SkipVought]

Hey, preacher Bob in Plano.

I’m layman Skip in Benbrook.

The link explains how to print PAGE numbers. I don’t know what you mean by, “page numbers for columns”.

If you have one, two or three columns per page, the page number has nothing to do with the columns.

The page number get put in either a HEADER or FOOTER.

I am used to using plain 8 1/2 x 11 paper and I read about setting up the printer to print 2 pages in A5 buy my I'm not sure what that means.

A5 is a European standard that is close to a half sheet to our 8.5x11.

Please explain what you’re trying to accomplish. Do you want to use an 8.5x11 FOLDED to make a booklet with 4 pages, printed both sides?



Skip,
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[SkipVought]

Ah, I think I understand what you're referring to.

Here's an example of a booklet style Word doc on one sheet of paper, printed on both sides with 4 pages.

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[bobnplano]

Hi Skip, and thank you for your response. What I'm trying to accomplish is simply this:

Not particularly interested in book form, just simply, landscape format, two columns (which fit nicely in my Bible), printed on one side and stacked in order so that I'm not turning pages, putting a number at the bottom of the column to signify the page, I cut the 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper in half after I have printed the sermon. Therefore the columns become pages and I have always hand numbered those half pages manually in the past so they don't get out of order. So, I just wondered how I could make Word put a page number at the bottom of the columns before I print them so they will automatically be numbered and in order.

Does that make sense?

Bob

 

[SkipVought]

You would be much better off first cutting your sheets in half to form a stack of 5.5 x 8.5 to put in your printer. I often do this. (In fact, this past Christmas I printed the Gospel According to John on 4.25 x 5.5 booklet, 180 pages, 5 sheet signatures (20 pages), Coptic hand stitched as a gift.)

Then in Page Layout > Page setup:
Margins: Narrow
Orientation: Protrait
Size: More paper sizes... > Paper > Paper size: > CHOOSE Statement (5.5 x 8.5) > OK
Columns: 1

Now you can Insert > Header & Footer...
...and choose whatever page numbering you like.

You could save this as a template and just SaveAs with your sermon title and never think about page numbering again.

Otherwise, if you were to use Landscape with two columns, you'd have to set tabs in the header or footer to center the page number and manually type 1 & 2 in the appropriate location each time. If you had another sheet, cuz you had lots to say, you'd have a page 3 or page 4 to contend with.

Skip,
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Just traded in my OLD subtlety...
for a NUance![/sub]

 

[SkipVought]

How about this?

Skip,
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Just traded in my OLD subtlety...
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[SkipVought]

Or this.

I used landscape, but in Page Setup selected Margins > Pages > Multiple Pages - 2 pages per sheet

Then added a Footer & Page Numbers.

Save that as a template and then call that up to write your sermons and SaveAs.

You don’t need to make two columns. The Multiple Pages - 2 pages per sheet, does that for you.

Skip,
[sub]
Just traded in my OLD subtlety...
for a NUance![/sub]

 

[bobnplano]

Thanks Skip, excellent idea! I'll just give that a try! Thank you again so much!

Bob

 

[Andrzejek]

Skip is right: "A5 is a European standard that is close to a half sheet to our 8.5x11."

A4 is 210 x 297 mm (recalculate it into the crazy imperial system if you want )
A3 is twice as big (420 x 297 mmm), A5 is half of it (148.5 x 210 mm).
And so on...


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