In Word 2007, click the Office button, choose Save As > Word Template (or choose one of the other "Template" options on the "Save as type" drop-down menu), and click Save. Format the font size and type, or stick with the document defaults.įinally, save the file as a template: In Word 2003, click File > Save As, give the template a name such as "Two-column layout," choose a location for the file (more on this below), select Document Template (*.dot) in the Save as Type drop-down menu, and click Save. Paste in more dummy text by typing =rand( p, s) (where "p" is the number of paragraphs and "s" is the number of sentences) and pressing Enter. (Note that this important step was inadvertently excluded from the original version of the tip my apologies.) In Word 2007, click the Page Layout tab on the ribbon and click Columns > Two. In Word 2003, click Format > Columns and choose the two-column icon under Presets. Add a continuous section break to your two-column Word template via the Page Layout tab. In Word 2007, click the Page Layout tab, choose Breaks in the Page Setup section, and click Continuous in the drop-down menu. In Word 2003, click Insert > Break > Continuous > OK. Now press Enter to move the cursor to a new line. This is supposed to be a "summary."Ĭhoose a font type and size for the summary, which will appear in a single column. The quick way to do so is to type =rand( p, s) (where "p" is the number of paragraphs and "s" is the number of sentences) and press Enter. On the next line, enter dummy text to represent the document summary. To create this template, open a new document, type a dummy document title on the first line, choose a font type and size (I used 12-point bold lucida sans, for example), and center the line by choosing the appropriate icon in the formatting section of Word 2003's standard toolbar and under the Home tab on Word 2007's ribbon. All I had done was create a Word template with a simple two-column layout for long text sections. When we were done, several of my co-workers commented on how nicely the reports were laid out. Each report was from three to eight pages long, and most of them included at least one table or chart. Microsoft Office Publisher will insert pages so that the total number is a multiple of four, because one sheet of paper becomes four pages.I recently finished working on a project that generated a dozen separate reports published together in a single booklet. If you are prompted to automatically insert pages, click Yes. Under Preview, you can see how two of the pages will appear when they are printed on one tabloid sheet. Make sure that the paper size is twice the page size. If Booklet, side-fold is not an available option, the selected paper size may be too small for the pages. Under Printing options, select Booklet, side-fold. Under Orientation, verify that Landscape is selected.
Under Paper, verify that the 11-by-17-inch or tabloid paper size is selected. In the Printer name list, select a printer that can print on 11-by-17-inch or tabloid paper. On the File menu, click Print Setup, and then click the Publication and Paper Settings tab. Under Margin Guides, change the margins if you want. In the Page Setup dialog box, under Blank Page Sizes, click Booklets, and then click Letter Booklet 8.5 x 11". In the Format Publication task pane, under Publication Options, click Change Page Size. Open the publication that you want to print as a folded booklet.
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Alternatively, you can use manual 2-sided printing. When you photocopy the pages back to back, fold, and then staple or bind them together, they will be in the right order.
If your printer doesn't support two-sided printing, Microsoft Publisher prints the first and last pages on one sheet of paper, the second and next-to-last on another sheet, and so on. Microsoft Office Publisher prints the first and last pages on one side of the sheet of paper, the second and next-to-last on the other side of the sheet, and so on, as shown here. Select any other options that you want, and then click OK to print the publication. Manual 2-Sided Print, Flip sheets on short edge or Print on Both Sides, Flip sheets on short edge In the Print dialog box, under Printer, select a printer that can print on 11 x 17 or tabloid paper. Top of page Print the booklet or newsletter Note: Your booklet will print correctly only when the total number of pages is a multiple of four, but you don't have to place content on all four of the inserted pages.