Suzanne,
I'm using Word 2000 and trying to do about the same thing.
While I would like my booklet to be 4.25 x 5.5, I would like to print
back-to-back, collated pages so that I may then fold the pages, staple them
in the middle and be able to flip through the booklet with page numbers
inserted. Is this possible in Word 2000?

Jason


Jason

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If this is Word 2000 or above, set up the pages as full-size sheets, then
use the "4 pages per sheet option in the Print dialog. This would require
some experimentation to get the proportions right (it's much easier with
European A sizes), and you would have to enter the page numbers as
1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3, etc.; so this would not be a trivial operation, but
it might still be easier than replicating the pages in table cells
(especially since it allows you to have true headers/footers/page numbers,
etc.).

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"Bo_Jack" wrote in message
...
I would like to do the following with WORD (or any other appropriate
OFFICE
product):

Set up a document with page size 4.25” X 5.5” in landscape orientation.
Type up the document and get the lay-out of the 4.25” X 5.5” pages looking
right.
THEN – When I print the document, I want to feed 8.5” X 11” paper into the
printer and have the booklet’s "page 1" printed 4 times on the first sheet
(one time in each of the four quadrants of an evenly divided sheet, have
the
booklet's "page 2" printed 4 times on the second sheet (one time in each
quadrant), etc.

The reason that I want to do this is that I need to produce a “booklet”
with
page dimensions of 4.25” X 5.5”, and I want (a) to minimize the amount of
paper stock used and (b) to have the booklet come out of the printer
collated
correctly. If I can get the sheets printed in the way described, then
after
one set of paper sheets has been printed in the correct order, I can cut
the
sheets along the quadrant lines and have four complete, collated booklets.

I have been able to accomplish what I want using a “brute force” method of
setting up table cells of the correct size (4-cells per sheet), typing the
wording for each page in the upper left hand cell of each sheet, then
manually copy-and-pasting the words from the first cell into the other
three
cells on that sheet. However, this is a really awkward way to accomplish
my
goal. It also is very error prone if some of the text needs later to be
changed.

Can anyone provide me with guidance on how to do this more efficiently?

Thanks for any suggestions.

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Best Regards,

Bo_Jack