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Multiple Pages Per Sheet
Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: Multiple Pages Per Sheet.
Word includes a nifty feature that allows you to print multiple pages on a single sheet of paper. For instance, you can take two pages of your document and print them on a single side of a piece of paper. Word allows you to print 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, or 16 actual pages per printed page. This can save quite a bit of paper, but it can make reading the output more difficult.
To control this setting, follow these steps:
- Load the document you want to print.
- Choose the Print option from the File menu. Word displays the Print dialog box. (See Figure 1.)
- Use the Pages Per Sheet drop-down list (lower-right corner) to specify how many pages should be combined on each printed page.
- Specify any other printing options, as desired.
- Click on OK to print your document.
Figure 1. The Print dialog box.
WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. (Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world.) This tip (1838) applies to Microsoft Word 2000, 2002, and 2003. You can find a version of this tip for the ribbon interface of Word (Word 2007 and later) here: Multiple Pages Per Sheet.
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Kind regards
Linda
Greetings Allen
Fascinating web site.
I used to be reasonably competent in Word and Excel for colleagues too, even PowerPoint. I am now retired, for a while. Now I have a Word question for something which ... ?
So we have a "long text", or about to start one. This text can of course easily be printed: multiple pages per print page. BUT ... I desire to set up multiple pages and thus see and *read* the text on the screen, like you see in a book: p1, p2-3, p4-5, etc, pairs, that is minimum multiple so at least two pages per page. I then can continue to edit etc completely as usual. Clearly, changing text in page N should move the rest of the text “up or down”, to N-1 or N+1, and across all pages.
I guess some clever macro will do this, but macronomy was not my domain :-) What can there be?
Please be so kind to think about and let me know more, and perhaps make generally available if can work.
Many thank yous
Ron
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Number of copies: 4
Pages per sheet: 4
My doc page is 1/2 sheet (5.5 tall x 8.5 wide) I would like to print page 1 on the top and page 2 on the bottom, etc. I'm sure the solution is simple but it eludes me.