Booklet Printing

[Sandra Williams]

I have tried everything to get a 48-page booklet to print in Word 2002. I selected "Book fold" and "All" on the Margin tab of Page Setup. I set my margins and the 48-page document is divisible by 4. I am printing to a printer that does not handle duplex, therefore, I select "Manual duplex" on the print menu. Under "Options," I deselected checks under "Options for Duplex printing," because I read on the support site that checking these boxes causes problems. My cover page prints on the left-hand side of the 11 x 8.5 page instead of on the right-hand side. Also the printer kicks out 1 blank page before printing the first page. Instead of printing 12 pages for the initial run, the printer prints 16 or 18 (it varies). I have two section breaks, one following the first 8 pages of front matter, and one after the last page of text, before the blank page required to even out to 48 pages. Can somebody please help me? I've been working on this for two days. I also tried the macros and booklet printing instructions on the MVP site. The macros didn't work, and when I tried the booklet printing instructions with "mirror pages" the print menu doesn't have a place to select "odd" and "even" pages.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Sandra:

Sure I can help, but you would be better off asking over on the
microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs group where they use Word 20023
for a living: this is a Macintosh Word group.

Not that it matters: Word 2002 and Word 2004 are almost exactly the same.

So: Let's begin...

I have tried everything to get a 48-page booklet to print in Word 2002. I
selected "Book fold" and "All" on the Margin tab of Page Setup. I set my
margins and the 48-page document is divisible by 4. I am printing to a
printer that does not handle duplex, therefore, I select "Manual duplex" on
the print menu. Under "Options," I deselected checks under "Options for
Duplex printing," because I read on the support site that checking these boxes
causes problems. My cover page prints on the left-hand side of the 11 x 8.5
page instead of on the right-hand side.

OK, find and double-click the section break on or immediately following the
cover page. Change it to "Odd Page".

Also the printer kicks out 1 blank
page before printing the first page.

That should fix that as well. The reason for the blank page is that the
printer assumes the first page is a right page, so it kicks out a blank to
make the next sheet an even page.

Instead of printing 12 pages for the
initial run, the printer prints 16 or 18 (it varies). I have two section
breaks, one following the first 8 pages of front matter, and one after the
last page of text, before the blank page required to even out to 48 pages.

Each section break controls the text ahead of it up to the top of the
document or the previous section break. You actually have THREE section
breaks: there is one that you can never see hidden after the very last
paragraph mark in the document. The hidden one is the Document's Default
section break, and it sets the properties for all of the others: you need to
get that one right before inserting any others, because the other section
breaks all inherit from the default.

Can somebody please help me? I've been working on this for two days. I also
tried the macros and booklet printing instructions on the MVP site. The
macros didn't work, and when I tried the booklet printing instructions with
"mirror pages" the print menu doesn't have a place to select "odd" and "even"
pages.

Those macros should have worked on Word 2002: would you like to tell me what
is wrong with them? (I just happen to be the web author for that
website...)

Cheers

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John McGhie <[email protected]>
Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

If you are really using Word 2002, you should repost elsewhere, as this is a
Mac-specific word group and 2002 is a WinWord version. But all they will
tell you in the general Word groups is to see the MVP booklet page.

I know you say you have seen it, but that page offers several different
methods. Make sure you are not mixing up more than one. In fact, now that
I look at it, I realize that page is really only for versions before Word
2002, as Word 2002 introduced the Booklet feature. Look in Help for
information on using the Booklet feature.

You can also use Google Groups to search for past threads on this question.

Re posting to other groups:
http://word.mvps.org/FindHelp/index.htm

Booklet page:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/BookletPrinting.htm

DM

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Sandra:

I need to see that document. Please zip it and email it to me. To get
through my firewall please paste the following password into the Subject
line, or I will never see the message: 25702E24-C60B-4F2D

Cheers

Hi John,

Thanks for responding to my question, even though I posted to the wrong group.
I did as you instructed, but still no luck getting the document to print
correctly. My first page, which is the cover page, is still printing on the
left-hand side of the sheet instead of on the right-hand side, as it should.
It seems to be inserting a page at the beginning. I check the page format and
it is indicating "Start on Odd Page."

The two macros I tried from the MVP site gave me error messages and directed
me to the debugger; however, since I deleted them, I can't tell you exactly
what the message was. I know that the " mark following "Input box" in the
Booklet2000Duplex Printer macro was highlighted.

Any further help you can offer is appreciated.

Cheers!

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Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410