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Originally Posted by mabel
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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I have Word 365, and there are a handful of templates available for "booklet" which might be a starting point for you. That might even be accessible to you in your current version. Try File/New, and search the Office templates for "Booklet". The ones I'm seeing are page numbered, so 2 and 3 are side by side, 4 and 1, and table of contents and page 5.
I can easily see pages 2 and 3 on the screen. You've tried this?
Create a booklet or book in Word
I'm on the View ribbon, and "Side to Side" is an option, as is "Multiple Pages."
Best regards,
Ann