Printing Selected Pages from Multiple Documents

[Lady_Hynarc]

Hi All,

Is there a way to print specific pages from selected documents withou
opening any of the documents. I do know in advance which pages I want.

I have a number of handouts of which I want to print some as a job lot.
The documents are on the whole composed of double-sided pages, some wit
multiple double-sided pages. I cannot put all of these documents into
single document because the headers/footers are completely different fo
each document; furthermore some are portrait and some are landscape. M
printer cannot print double-sided so I print, for example, pages 1,3,
and then reinsert them in reverse order in the printer and print 2,4,
which gives me the right sequence. This takes forever, particularly i
I am printing a full set of handouts. I want to be able to type
single command which will print all the pages I want in the correc
order and then when I've reinserted them, print the reverse pages.

Hopefully that gives some idea of what I want to do. Any suggestions?
If you can help I will be most grateful.

Thanks in advanc

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Not considering the problem of pages from multiple files, you don't need tomanually reverse the pages before you print the back sides; just set the Print dialog to Reverse Order.

Note, though, that you _can_ mix different headers and different orientations in the same document, so long as each change happens in a new Section (Page Layout > Breaks > Section Break New Page). You may have to recreate theheaders because you'll have to start at the beginning and mark each new section header "Do Not Continue from Previous Section." If they're messed up,just have the original open nearby and copy-paste the header contents fromthe original to the combined document.

 

[Stefan Blom]

As Peter suggested, having all content in one file will be a lot easier.

Just in case your printer doesn't support printing landscape and portrait on
the same sheet, I'd make use of Odd Page section breaks instead of Next Page
breaks, though.

 

[Lady_Hynarc]

Thanks for your answers guys. I am now working on putting it in on
file using sections although it's quite a job.

I don't have the problem of portrait and landscape on the same page;
am printing on A5 and each page is either portrait or landscape.

As far as page sequence is concerned it is still quite tricky because i
the single file solution the back of page 1 needs to be the last pag
printed. So trying to work out the correct sequence of pages is
challenge

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

True, Word doesn't really deal in "pages" so blank pages can be a problem.

But it will let you print entire sections (AIUI, I've never had to try it),so you could tell it to print all the Odd Pages of the double-sided sections, then all the Even Pages of the double-sided sections (in reverse -- exactly how that works physically and with multiple copies is between you and you printer).

Then you could do the single-sided sections in a more straightforward way.

(BTW don't ever ask for the "collated" option, it takes forever -- far better for you to assemble the sets individually from the stacks of the same page.)

 

[Stefan Blom]

The syntax for printing a single Word section is the letter s followed by
the section number, which you should enter in the "Pages" field (found in
the Print dialog box of Word 97-2003 and at File tab | Print for Word
2007-2013). You can print a range of sections (such as s1-s5) or a
non-continuous set of sections (s1,s3,s4).

That might help, along with Peter's remarks...

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

True, Word doesn't really deal in "pages" so blank pages can be a problem.

But it will let you print entire sections (AIUI, I've never had to try
it), so you could tell it to print all the Odd Pages of the double-sided
sections, then all the Even Pages of the double-sided sections (in
reverse -- exactly how that works physically and with multiple copies is
between you and you printer).

Then you could do the single-sided sections in a more straightforward way.

(BTW don't ever ask for the "collated" option, it takes forever -- far
better for you to assemble the sets individually from the stacks of the
same page.)