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:
Figure 1. The Print dialog box.
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2015-05-11 11:38:52
Roger
Having spent 8+ hours and wasted multiple sheets of paper, I have concluded that there is a software error in "MSWord". The multiple pages per sheet function works as long as the original document is "portrait". If it's "landscape" it doesn't work. Get same result with my old pc running Word 2000 and my laptop running Word 2010.
2015-05-06 03:20:54
Linda
I have to thank you for the assistance in creating 4 pages on an A4.
Very helpful
Kind regards
Linda
2015-03-01 04:11:17
wasd
Thx
2015-02-18 08:53:04
deniz
how can I print 8 a4 pages on one a4 sheet , 4 each side ?
2014-11-14 02:41:56
fia
I print two pages in one paper (page 1 and 2) that each page has a picture, but the results of the print out is the picture on page 2 (right) move to page 1 (left). how do I fix this?
2013-10-13 20:44:59
ron
2013 October 13
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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2013-04-17 22:40:06
lld
I'm trying to print four to a page. The document is designed in landscape, so four should fit perfectly. But when I set it to print for to a page, it shrinks the pages and wants to print it in portrait. How do I keep it in landscape to print four to a page.
2012-09-20 05:05:39
asdasd
Pages: 1,1,1,1
Number of copies: 4
Pages per sheet: 4
2012-05-14 18:29:30
chris
The selection for multiple pages per sheet is greyed out on my print dialog box. Why's that?
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.
2012-04-21 18:06:27
awyatt
No, you can't make it come out twice. You can print two pages (page 1 and page 2) on an A4, but not two copies of the same page.
2012-04-21 14:25:50
effie
I can't make this work. What size should your original document be? If my original doc is a4, can I make it come out twice on an A4 sheet by selecting two pages per sheet?
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