Thread: [Solved] Printing a booklet
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Old 05-02-2022, 09:56 AM
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Default Printing a booklet

Word 2016 displays some annoying behaviour during a task which I often perform and I would much like to know if it is solved in later versions.
It occurrs when making a 'booklet' with 2 pages side-by-side on a sheet of paper (or 4 pages, to be exact, as the print is double sided of course). With 'booklet' I mean the paper is folded and stapled in the middle, which requires the pages to be 'reshuffled'.
The option to do this was, I think, new in word 2016 but is seems added like an afterthought. For starters: when setting paper margins, I have to switch them left-right, setting the value for 'inner margin' to the size of the outer margin and vice-versa. But much more annoying is that the display is not adapted: there seems to be no way I can get the whole spread of for instance pages 2 and 3 on the screen, so I never get a good view of what it's gonna look like when printed. Temporarily inserting a blank page at the start proves cumbersome and error prone.
Does Word 2021 handle this better?
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