I go through a lot of half-sheets of paper in my courses. On one side, students write what they found interesting in that day’s class and what questions they have about the course material.
You might use Microsoft Word to craft business reports, college essays, or professional resumes. But Word offers many features that let you really get creative. You can make the perfect flyer for your organization, small business, or personal event quickly and easily. With templates. This is the field where you would normally, enter the page numbers you want to print, IE: '2-10'. This tells Word to DUPLICATE the first page (which is really half a page) on the lower half of the printed page.
On the other side are instructions for small group discussion. I’ve been using some version of these forms for a couple years now, but they seem to be in a constant state of flux. That means frequent revisions. That means I type up what I want at the top of the page and then I copy and paste it underneath. Then I put my cursor between the two versions and repeatedly hit enter until it looks like it’s about half way. And I repeat the process on page two for the backside of the half-sheets.
Yesterday, as I was doing this, I thought, “It’s 2017. There has to be a better way than just eyeballing what looks like half way.” And there is! In Word, click on the “Layout” tab, click “Margins,” and select “Custom Margins.” In the pop up window, in the “Pages” section, click the dropdown menu next to “Multiple pages” and select “2 pages per sheet.” Word will now show you a half sheet. Type up what you want.
Hit enter a few times to add a new page or go to the “Insert” tab and click on “Page Break.” Copy and paste what you have on your first half sheet onto the second page. Add another page and type up what you want on the back of your half sheet.
Add one more page and copy/paste the backside to page four. Half pages 1 and 2 will print on the front of the sheet; half pages 3 and 4 will print on the back of the sheet.
Isn’t that a whole lot easier?
I am new to Mac as well, and have remained so for the past five months. I'm Dutch, and have my iMac talk to me in Dutch.
Therefore, I may not always know the English names of menus and such. But I've come across a possible answer to the question about printing two pages on one sheet - through the help menus of Pages8 and of Word2008.
I typed '2 pagina's per vel' (which is Dutch for 2 pages per sheet, as you may have guessed) and found instructions for doing it (in the printing menu of the Layout window) in essentially the same way as I used to do it in Word on my pc with windows98. With one difference: the old Word enabled me to actually +compose and save+ a document of the required type and not just print it. I haven't yet been able to see if the help files are correct (they very often are) but if they are, the solution they offer is a lot simpler than the one described by you, I believe. But then, I haven't tried your solutions, either. Dear Peggy, Thank you for making me welcome to Apple Discussions. You're right, of course, about the layout options in the print dialog not putting the pages in the correct order for folding into a booklet. In my PC-days, I ordered my (one-sided) printer to print the pages, two to a sheet, in the appropriate order (8,1,6,3 for one side of the paper, and 2,7,4,5 for the other side) for an 8-page folder, and similarly for larger folders.
I planned to use the same approach (well, the same work-around) on the iMac, but had a hard time finding how to print two pages to a sheet. And one advantage of the approach was that page numbering could be done as required, with pages, not sheets, being numbered appropriately (that is, if Word did not omit the first digit for pages with two-digit numbers - or, now that we're at it, if Word did not elaborate the 'page X of Y' instruction as if it said 'page X of X'). I have downloaded CocoaBooklet, at your kind suggestion, but haven't had time to try it out as yet. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.
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