My objective is to prepare a handwritten booklet to take to Office Depot for two-sided printing. The booklet is small and I want to get two of the 8" x 5" pages per sheet.

I am trying to use Word 2007 to do this exact layout. My goal is to put two images of one side of a page next to each other on one sheet, then put two images of the back of the pages on another sheet positioned so exactly that I can make two-sided copies that line up back-to-back.

To that end, I scanned the first two pages (a front and a back) and saved them as .jpg. In Word I called up a blank sheet, turned it to landscape, added gridlines, and put a mark at exactly the middle of 11" and of 8 1/2 inches, as shown by the on-screen rulers.

it took me awhile to figure out that part, what with the margins jumping around as I selected and de-selected the text boxes, and I re-sized the screen image and used an actual ruler to do this, but then I still have something I can't figure out.

I inserted the first image into the text box. The image is saved to 8" x 5". However, the image does not fill the box. This is not a border problem, because I can drag both the vertical and the horizontal image handles and enlarge it a bit before the image bumps the box to a bigger size. This is tedious and I have an 80-page document. I need the images to just fill the boxes. I did not find an option for asking Word to fill the whole box with the image.

Help?