Tearing my hair out and wasting LOTS of paper and toner in trying to print a
booklet. I do NOT have a duplex printer, but I cannot seem to get the
settings right for this - the pages either don't print next to each other
properly, or are upside down, or in the wrong order.
Can anyone point me to a GOOD tutorial where I can see what I am not doing?

Word is crap at booklet printing. Instead, save your document to PDF using
Word 2007's built-in converter. Then open the document in Adobe Reader v9
and use its booklet feature. It is impressively good! It is the one saving
grace in installing a PDF reader that is such a hog.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Gordon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Tearing my hair out and wasting LOTS of paper and toner in trying to print
> a booklet. I do NOT have a duplex printer, but I cannot seem to get the
> settings right for this - the pages either don't print next to each other
> properly, or are upside down, or in the wrong order.
> Can anyone point me to a GOOD tutorial where I can see what I am not
> doing?

"Terry Farrell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Word is crap at booklet printing. Instead, save your document to PDF using
> Word 2007's built-in converter. Then open the document in Adobe Reader v9
> and use its booklet feature. It is impressively good! It is the one saving
> grace in installing a PDF reader that is such a hog.
>

Thanks! I'll give that a try....

"Terry Farrell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Word is crap at booklet printing. Instead, save your document to PDF using
> Word 2007's built-in converter. Then open the document in Adobe Reader v9
> and use its booklet feature. It is impressively good! It is the one saving
> grace in installing a PDF reader that is such a hog.
>

Doesn't work. I have seven pages of text and Acrobat will NOT print the
blank page as page 8 at the end of the document.
In other words instead of printing page 1 and page 8 (the blank page) on the
first sheet, it prints page 1 and page 7, but it prints a blank page in
front of page 2 so that page 2 is NOT on the reverse side of the paper to
page 1.

I've never had any problem printing a booklet with an odd number of pages in
Acrobat Reader. Have you insert a break next odd page at the end of the
first page?

Terry

"Gordon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> "Terry Farrell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:umw8$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Word is crap at booklet printing. Instead, save your document to PDF
>> using Word 2007's built-in converter. Then open the document in Adobe
>> Reader v9 and use its booklet feature. It is impressively good! It is the
>> one saving grace in installing a PDF reader that is such a hog.
>>
>
> Doesn't work. I have seven pages of text and Acrobat will NOT print the
> blank page as page 8 at the end of the document.
> In other words instead of printing page 1 and page 8 (the blank page) on
> the first sheet, it prints page 1 and page 7, but it prints a blank page
> in front of page 2 so that page 2 is NOT on the reverse side of the paper
> to page 1.

In fact, I just retested this. I took a 5 page (A4) document and saved it as
PDF.

I opened it in Acrobat Reader, selected Print and in the option dialog chose
Booklet Printing under Scaling, Both Sides under Booklet Subset, set my
printer driver to Duplex (Both Sides) and pressed OK. It printed a perfect
A5 booklet using Pages 1-5 with pages 6-8 entirely blank as expected.

Terry

"Gordon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> "Terry Farrell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:umw8$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Word is crap at booklet printing. Instead, save your document to PDF
>> using Word 2007's built-in converter. Then open the document in Adobe
>> Reader v9 and use its booklet feature. It is impressively good! It is the
>> one saving grace in installing a PDF reader that is such a hog.
>>
>
> Doesn't work. I have seven pages of text and Acrobat will NOT print the
> blank page as page 8 at the end of the document.
> In other words instead of printing page 1 and page 8 (the blank page) on
> the first sheet, it prints page 1 and page 7, but it prints a blank page
> in front of page 2 so that page 2 is NOT on the reverse side of the paper
> to page 1.

"Terry Farrell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I've never had any problem printing a booklet with an odd number of pages
> in Acrobat Reader. Have you insert a break next odd page at the end of the
> first page?

No. (I have to say it's not my document - it was originally created in
Publisher and has been converted to Word for insertion in another document,
although it's a document in it's own right)

If I insert a break -next odd page at the bottom of page 1, when it gets
saved as pdf there's a blank page as page 2.....so that doesn't work either.

"Terry Farrell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> In fact, I just retested this. I took a 5 page (A4) document and saved it
> as PDF.
>
> I opened it in Acrobat Reader, selected Print and in the option dialog
> chose Booklet Printing under Scaling, Both Sides under Booklet Subset, set
> my printer driver to Duplex (Both Sides) and pressed OK. It printed a
> perfect A5 booklet using Pages 1-5 with pages 6-8 entirely blank as
> expected.
>

There is definitely something very weird going on here. It doesn't matter
what I do, the print preview in Acrobat shows the WRONG printing - the blank
page is inserted in front of page 2, NOT next to page 1, which is where it
should be.
If I choose Odd pages, (I don't have a duplex printer), it shows page 1 and
page 7, NOT page 1 and the blank page.

I agree that's wrong, but I'm not sure why. Have you tried it with a
different document?

Terry

"Gordon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Terry Farrell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:uZVGn$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> In fact, I just retested this. I took a 5 page (A4) document and saved it
>> as PDF.
>>
>> I opened it in Acrobat Reader, selected Print and in the option dialog
>> chose Booklet Printing under Scaling, Both Sides under Booklet Subset,
>> set my printer driver to Duplex (Both Sides) and pressed OK. It printed a
>> perfect A5 booklet using Pages 1-5 with pages 6-8 entirely blank as
>> expected.
>>
>
> There is definitely something very weird going on here. It doesn't matter
> what I do, the print preview in Acrobat shows the WRONG printing - the
> blank page is inserted in front of page 2, NOT next to page 1, which is
> where it should be.
> If I choose Odd pages, (I don't have a duplex printer), it shows page 1
> and page 7, NOT page 1 and the blank page.

"Terry Farrell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I agree that's wrong, but I'm not sure why. Have you tried it with a
> different document?
>

No I haven't yet - I'll do that.