Can I shrink the whole word document to A6 or A7?

[steve]

I have created an advert using Word but i need to shrink the whole document
so it will fit onto 1/4 of an A5 magazine page. Is this possible, and if so
how. I have text boxes in the doc as well.
Thanks

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Are you submitting a camera-ready paper copy to the magazine? If so,
set the Scaling in the print dialog to 50%.

 

[steve]

Thank you Peter. This has worked perfectly to reduce the document to A6
(half of A5) . Unfortunately my printer doesn't allow me to reduce the
printing scale to smaller than this, but I need to reduce the A6 by half
again. I don't have a 50% scale option, rather it gives me options of sizes
available. Is there another way to shrink the whole document.
Thanks

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Hmm. 50% should make the edges half as long (i.e., the area 1/4 as
big), not the area half as big! I don't know what to do.

 

[steve]

You are right, i have actually decreased th size of the document to 1/4 the
size of A4 but i actually need it to be 1/4 of A5 (which is actually 1/8 of
A4).

As i said I dont have an option to print 50% of the size in the scaling drop
down menu; instead i have a series of pre-set sizes (A5 , 4x6ins, 3x5ins,
envelope etc etc). Is there a way to get an option to print 50%? Is there no
way to shrink the document itself?

Thanks
Steve

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

You didn't actually say you'd started with A4 ... why not simply
create the document in the size you want to end up with, in the first
place?

Go to the document and manually change all the dimensions to 1/4 of
what they were.

Or to 1.2 of what they were and print at 50%.

 

[steve]

Thanks peter I didnt realise i could do that. i did rather hope that I could
do one document in A4 and then shrink it to fit the different sized magazine
spaces. I guess i will have to do several instead, although i can now do A^
just by changing the print scale.

many thanks for your help
Steve

 

[Graham Mayor]

Create the document at A4 size then from the print dialog select the print
dialog option to print 8 pages per sheet.
The principle is essentially that at
http://www.gmayor.com/print_multiple_copies.htm

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[steve]

PERFECT!!! Thank you very much.
Steve

Create the document at A4 size then from the print dialog select the print
dialog option to print 8 pages per sheet.
The principle is essentially that at
http://www.gmayor.com/print_multiple_copies.htm

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My web site www.gmayor.com

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[Graham Mayor]

You are welcome

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[Peter T. Daniels]

But note that that will come out slightly smaller than he wants,
because part of the 1/8 page of each image will be taken up by the
blank margins.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

But won't the margins also be reduced proportionally? Reductions don't work
very well with US Letter because it doesn't have the same aspect ratio when
rotated (that is, 5.5" x 8.5" doesn't have the same proportions as 8.5" x
11"), but European A sizes reduce very well because A5 is exactly half of A4
and so on.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

But note that that will come out slightly smaller than he wants,
because part of the 1/8 page of each image will be taken up by the
blank margins.