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2 pages per sheet (Page Setup)
That's one of the most succinct KB articles I've ever seen!
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message .. . It *IS* a Word 2000 thing! I just found this on the Microsoft website: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;220221. Stevew wrote: Well, here's some more news on this. I went out to the web site you suggested and looked at the booket printing. Now, before I did test that information I tested my document on a third PC. To my suprise, everything worked fine and when I started to investigate, I found that this PC has Word 2002, running under Windows XP. The other two PC's are using Word 2000, one with XP, the other NT4.0. From your suggested web site I borrowed some macros for booklet Printing in Word 2000, using the Print twice method. But all the even pages still had the incomplete shading. My document has just the one table in the main document. Currently situated at the top of the document. So this now sounds like its a word 2000 problem. Any more suggestions? Thanks -----Original Message----- Hi Steve. The booklet printing I'm thinking about is designed to print in landscape orientation, so forget that idea. Printing in portrait would be much easier I think. I'm not sure if you are using one table or two tables in the main document, but either way, it should be possible to set up the main document so that it fits on one page with a horizontal "gap" in the center to accommodate the perforation. SteveW wrote: I got to try it from another PC this morning and I get the same results. I'll try your suggestion about the double pass, but I can tell you right now my boss will not like a solution where some office worker will be responsible for running these through a printer twice, being sure that the paper is in correctly and so forth. This mail merge will ultimately be run through a macro from a user's desktop icon. In your last message you talk about the left right printing of two pages. I'm not sure I made it clear that my layout is top bottom printing of two pages. I don't see where it should matter, but you never know. The table in question fllls the entire page between the left and right margins. Was this option designed for the type of left right page printing you mentioned? Could the page layout (8.5 x 11 portrait) be the problem? Thanks -----Original Message----- I don't think it's a problem with mail merge. Definitely sounds like the problem the previous poster had. Do you have access to another computer that you can try to print from? Here's another idea. How do you feel about printing in two passes onto the same page (i.e., printing the left side on the first pass, then putting the whole stack of paper back into the printer to print the right side)? There's a method for booklet printing described at http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/format...ookletPrinting .h tm, but you'll have to modify it a bit to suit your purpose: 1. Set up the main document of the mail merge so that page 1 has the wide margin at the right, and page 2 has the wide margin at left (i.e., swap the gutter and outside margins shown in the link). 2. In the main document, shrink your current two-page table to make it fit into the two halves of one landscape page. 3. Run the mail merge. 4. Print all of the the left halves (odd-numbered pages). 5. Put the output stack back into the printer and all of the right halves (even-numbered pages). If your printer stacks output face down, then print the even-numbered pages in normal order. If your printer stacks output face up, then print the even numbered pages in reverse order. It's easier than it sounds. Just an idea though. wrote: My document looks just fine in Print Preview. I've tried printing, from the same PC, to two different printers. One a QMS 2060, the other QMS2445; both with the same results. I've changed my mail merge from a "Form Letter" to a "Cataloge" and I get the same result with the 2 per page check box checked. If I uncheck that box, no matter how I run the document, main document form letter, main document cataloge, section start new page, or section start continuous, it works fine. Only when that box is checked do I have this problem. What this document will be is printed on perforated paper so that the two table areas can be separated. I could create a copy of the table on the second half of the sheet with a "Next Record" field between them, but the check box seemed like a nice easy way to accomplish this especially if changes have to be made to any of the wording or layout in the table. It is kind of a complicated layout and is a legal document for Tax Sale of delinquent taxes so it is wordy in spots with complicated wording. -----Original Message----- Hi, SteveW. What happened with the previous post was the OP emailed me his file, and I had no problems printing it as 2 pages per sheet to an HP Laserjet 3150se, HP Color Laserjet 3700n, and Adobe Acrobat 5. But the OP could not print successfully to an HP Laserjet 2200dt, Xerox Docucolor laser, or Adobe Acrobat 4, although the file looked okay in print preview. Since I could print using three different printer drivers, and the OP could not print using three other printer drivers, it didn't appear to be a problem with the Word file itself or printer drivers. Something in the OP's computer couldn't handle the page setup... I thought it might be a non-Pentium processor or something to do with RAM, but I never heard back from the OP as to whether he got it to work. On to you... Does your file look okay in print preview? Have you tried printing at the lowest resolution your printer will do, just to see if it works that way? Have you tried printing the file from another computer or to another printer? SteveW wrote: I have a mail merge into a table. I have the 2 pages per sheet checked in the Page Setup dialoge. The Shading settings in my cells do not stay in the table on the second page when printed. It looks like the margins (Left and Right) in the cells do not get shaded. And the cells where I have the "Cell text Alignment" set to Center/Center, the top and bottom of the cell does not have its shading (only the line where there is text). The cell margins are all set to 0 for the Center aligned cells. The other cells are full justified with left and right margins of 0.03. I noticed that if I uncheck the 2 pages per sheet box and print the table on two pieces of paper, the shading works fine. I noticed looking back over old messages, that someone else asked about a similar problem, but no answer was given. Is there no solution? Thanks Steve . . . |
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2 pages per sheet (Page Setup)
Thanks for everything. I'm just leaving it as is and if
there are any complaints I'll just tell them that's what they get until the upgrade! Thanks again -----Original Message----- It *IS* a Word 2000 thing! I just found this on the Microsoft website: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;220221. Stevew wrote: Well, here's some more news on this. I went out to the web site you suggested and looked at the booket printing. Now, before I did test that information I tested my document on a third PC. To my suprise, everything worked fine and when I started to investigate, I found that this PC has Word 2002, running under Windows XP. The other two PC's are using Word 2000, one with XP, the other NT4.0. From your suggested web site I borrowed some macros for booklet Printing in Word 2000, using the Print twice method. But all the even pages still had the incomplete shading. My document has just the one table in the main document. Currently situated at the top of the document. So this now sounds like its a word 2000 problem. Any more suggestions? Thanks -----Original Message----- Hi Steve. The booklet printing I'm thinking about is designed to print in landscape orientation, so forget that idea. Printing in portrait would be much easier I think. I'm not sure if you are using one table or two tables in the main document, but either way, it should be possible to set up the main document so that it fits on one page with a horizontal "gap" in the center to accommodate the perforation. SteveW wrote: I got to try it from another PC this morning and I get the same results. I'll try your suggestion about the double pass, but I can tell you right now my boss will not like a solution where some office worker will be responsible for running these through a printer twice, being sure that the paper is in correctly and so forth. This mail merge will ultimately be run through a macro from a user's desktop icon. In your last message you talk about the left right printing of two pages. I'm not sure I made it clear that my layout is top bottom printing of two pages. I don't see where it should matter, but you never know. The table in question fllls the entire page between the left and right margins. Was this option designed for the type of left right page printing you mentioned? Could the page layout (8.5 x 11 portrait) be the problem? Thanks -----Original Message----- I don't think it's a problem with mail merge. Definitely sounds like the problem the previous poster had. Do you have access to another computer that you can try to print from? Here's another idea. How do you feel about printing in two passes onto the same page (i.e., printing the left side on the first pass, then putting the whole stack of paper back into the printer to print the right side)? There's a method for booklet printing described at http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/format...ookletPrinting .h tm, but you'll have to modify it a bit to suit your purpose: 1. Set up the main document of the mail merge so that page 1 has the wide margin at the right, and page 2 has the wide margin at left (i.e., swap the gutter and outside margins shown in the link). 2. In the main document, shrink your current two- page table to make it fit into the two halves of one landscape page. 3. Run the mail merge. 4. Print all of the the left halves (odd-numbered pages). 5. Put the output stack back into the printer and all of the right halves (even-numbered pages). If your printer stacks output face down, then print the even-numbered pages in normal order. If your printer stacks output face up, then print the even numbered pages in reverse order. It's easier than it sounds. Just an idea though. wrote: My document looks just fine in Print Preview. I've tried printing, from the same PC, to two different printers. One a QMS 2060, the other QMS2445; both with the same results. I've changed my mail merge from a "Form Letter" to a "Cataloge" and I get the same result with the 2 per page check box checked. If I uncheck that box, no matter how I run the document, main document form letter, main document cataloge, section start new page, or section start continuous, it works fine. Only when that box is checked do I have this problem. What this document will be is printed on perforated paper so that the two table areas can be separated. I could create a copy of the table on the second half of the sheet with a "Next Record" field between them, but the check box seemed like a nice easy way to accomplish this especially if changes have to be made to any of the wording or layout in the table. It is kind of a complicated layout and is a legal document for Tax Sale of delinquent taxes so it is wordy in spots with complicated wording. -----Original Message----- Hi, SteveW. What happened with the previous post was the OP emailed me his file, and I had no problems printing it as 2 pages per sheet to an HP Laserjet 3150se, HP Color Laserjet 3700n, and Adobe Acrobat 5. But the OP could not print successfully to an HP Laserjet 2200dt, Xerox Docucolor laser, or Adobe Acrobat 4, although the file looked okay in print preview. Since I could print using three different printer drivers, and the OP could not print using three other printer drivers, it didn't appear to be a problem with the Word file itself or printer drivers. Something in the OP's computer couldn't handle the page setup... I thought it might be a non-Pentium processor or something to do with RAM, but I never heard back from the OP as to whether he got it to work. On to you... Does your file look okay in print preview? Have you tried printing at the lowest resolution your printer will do, just to see if it works that way? Have you tried printing the file from another computer or to another printer? SteveW wrote: I have a mail merge into a table. I have the 2 pages per sheet checked in the Page Setup dialoge. The Shading settings in my cells do not stay in the table on the second page when printed. It looks like the margins (Left and Right) in the cells do not get shaded. And the cells where I have the "Cell text Alignment" set to Center/Center, the top and bottom of the cell does not have its shading (only the line where there is text). The cell margins are all set to 0 for the Center aligned cells. The other cells are full justified with left and right margins of 0.03. I noticed that if I uncheck the 2 pages per sheet box and print the table on two pieces of paper, the shading works fine. I noticed looking back over old messages, that someone else asked about a similar problem, but no answer was given. Is there no solution? Thanks Steve . . . . |
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