formating question from a new "switcher"

[jtmayo]

Hi,

My name is Justin and recently I switched to the Mac. I am a youth
pastor and so I produce half sheet flyers many times a week. I have
many old flyers that I reuse and I am having problems getting them to
work right in OS X - Office X.

I used to create the flyers with Office XP. THey were created with a
nice feature meant for doing what I do... It creates a half sheet size
document and then prints two on a page. When I open the docs they look
GREAT on the mac BUT, alas they wont print right. THe top and bottom
of the pages get cut off. I have spent several hours trying to get it
to work and have had no success.

At one point I did get the pages to print exactly right except that it
only printed one page (one side), ie. instead of printing the doc on
two peices of paper it printed on four.

Any suggestions?

Justin

 

[Jerry Stratton]

I used to create the flyers with Office XP. THey were created with a
nice feature meant for doing what I do... It creates a half sheet size
document and then prints two on a page. When I open the docs they look
GREAT on the mac BUT, alas they wont print right. THe top and bottom
of the pages get cut off. I have spent several hours trying to get it
to work and have had no success.

Any suggestions?

Since you say you're using Mac OS X, have you tried ignoring the Word
feature (I've never even seen it) and using the "Layout" section of your
print dialog?

Filerint

There is then a menu button on the dialog box that probably says "Copies
& Pages". Pull it down and choose "Layout".

For "Pages per Sheet", choose "2". Then choose whichever of the layout
directions you want.

This will automatically resize any document any program sends it, so
that each "page" goes on half the sheet. (The half sheets should look
exactly as if you had printed one per page, but smaller.) I find it very
useful.

Jerry