Microsoft Word help?

[Whaleboy]

This is probably a long shot but maybe someone will know something here...

Basically I'm looking to get a large document (~175 A4 pages) printed in such a way that it could be folded and read as a normal book. In other words, printed on both sides, with the pages (approx 250 words per page) printed in such a way that the document could be folded and bound as a normal book... pages read consecutively from left-right like a novel.

At my disposal I have Microsoft Word 2003, Adobe Acrobat Pro 6, and a normal black&white laser printer. I think Word has a "duplex" printing option on the print dialog, but that won't arrange the pages as I need them.

Any takers? Thanks in advance.

[Japher]

Print it out normal and then go find one of them fancy Xerox/Photocopy machines that has that feature.

[BlackCat]

My guess is that your printer isn't able to print on both sides of the paper - if it was, you would be able to choose it in print setup.

[reds4ever]

At A5 yes?

[MrFun]

Or you could write your entire book out using pen and paper.

[Urban Ranger]

I think you are looking for setting the left/right margins for odd/even pages, or something like that. Then you can just print them out normally in duplex, though your printer needs to support such a mode.

[Aphex_Twin2]

Take out a few pieces of paper, fold them, and number than as you want them to be numbered. Then take each page and note the numbers on the front and the back. Based on that it should be easy to construct a relationship between the the piece of paper and the page numbers it fits.

Say we have n sheets of paper. Each sheet has two page numbers on the front (say f1, f2) and two on the back (b1, b2).

For the k-th sheet (k = 1, 2, ... n) we have the following:

f1 = n*4 - 2*(k-1)
f2 = 2*k-1
b1 = f2+1
b2 = f1-1

Example:
For n=4 you should have the following (f1,f2,b1,b2) series, for each k=1,...,4:
(16, 1, 2, 15),
(14, 3, 4, 13),
(12, 5, 6, 11),
(10, 7, 8, 9)


So to print out all 250 pages simply plug the above into something like C, java, javascript..., print out the numbers on a piece of paper, then print out the pages of your document in the necessary order, based on your results.

[Saras]

there's a manual duplex mode in print dialog, where you print odd pages first, then reload the whole stack and print the even pages on blank sides. Try with smaller portions first

[Whaleboy]

Thanks everyone, I'm going to experiment with this at the w/end. IIRC, words duplex mode will simply print out one side of the sheet on a normal printer, then ask you to invert it. Aphex, that's a great help. I'm not much of a coder so I'll probably manually arrange the document but still saving this thread!