Formatting for Printing as a booklet

[abrogard]

I have a document of some 90+ pages that I want to print out with far fewer pages if I can.

It is currently formatted in two columns on landscape oriented A4. That brings it down to 90+ pages.

Now the problem is: how to organise it so that I can make a booklet by stapling these pages together in the centre.

So that the first page printed, for instance, would have page 1 as the right hand column and would be the first page of the book and the left hand column of that page, after folding, would be the last page of the book: page 90, say.

On the other side of that sheet would be printed, on the left side, page 2 and on the right side, page 89.

I thought something like this would be meat and drink to word processing packages but it's not, it seems. Perhaps some really sophisticated printing package is required, I hope not.

Can anyone tell me if it is possible with Word and, if so, how? And, if not, what packages is anyone aware of that might do the job?

 

[eyec]

MS Publisher will do what you are wanting

 

[Volk359]

Check your printer settings, you may have a duplex or manual duplex option you can use then print the odd pages then the even ones. Look in the pull down for Print:. The default is All pages in range.

It's been a while since I've done this but if you print in reverse order it saves you from putting the pages back in order when its done.

May depend on what printer and driver you have, too.

 

[eyec]

just printing odd then even pages will not give him a booklet format.

 

[Volk359]

For stapling down the center, you're correct, sorry. I'm used to my 3-ring binders.

 

[Lilliabeth]

Have you tried choosing Book Fold?

 

[abrogard]

Guys I got the answer from another forum. I'll put it here for those with an interest: It's a standard feature in Word 2002 and up. Just go File/Page Setup and in Margins choose 'book fold'.

Set a gutter size. Choose how many pages to have in each binding. Set your orientation.

No problem. Right there before my eyes if I'd looked hard enough.

regards,

ab