I am trying to duplex print two pages in a 15 page microsoft word
document. Is there a way to do this without having to print these
pages separately?
The responses from Summer and JoAnn are correct, but there's more to
it.
If your printer supports duplexing _and_ it supports HP PCL5 command
language (or PCL6, I think), then you can embed PRINT fields in your
document to turn duplexing on and off at specific points in the
document. To turn duplexing on, at the top of the page that should be
the front sheet, insert the field
{PRINT 27"&l1S"}
(the character after the ampersand is a lower case ell, followed by
the digit 1).
At the top of the page that follows the duplexed pages, insert the
field
{PRINT 27"&l2S"}
The codes are listed at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/135569.
Although it hasn't been updated since Word 97, I'm pretty sure nothing
here has changed through Word 2007.
If you don't have PCL support, then you're stuck with printing the
duplexed pages separately. If the document is printed frequently, it
would be worth writing a macro to run the two print jobs; the article
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=116
explains how to control duplexing (only on a per-print-job basis, not
section by section) from a macro.
