Is there a way to make it so that Word will print a different quantity of specific pages in a document? For example, 10 copies of page 1, 5 copies of page 2, 17 copies of page 3... etc...

I work in hospitality, and we have a 20-ish page document that contains 20 different puzzles that we set out for our guests. Each day we print a different puzzle, but some get used more than others.

I've been printing 50 copies of each page per week in order to make the print job, but some days we only use a fraction of that. After a few weeks, we end up overstocked on certain pages, and then I have to go in and manually skip those pages.

Is there a way using a macro to predefine a specific number of copies to each individual page in a document? Then I can just preset it to the number I need for each daily puzzle, and it would help level out the amount of extras we accumulate.

Thanks for any ideas!

The simplest solution is to have a separate document of each puzzle, then print however many copies you need of each document. A macro-based solution would have to prompt you for the number of copies for each page, so all you'd save is opening each document - but at the risk that someone will get confused about which page is which and end up printing the wrong numbers anyway.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the reply. I do actually use that single-document method for our other set of weekly printouts, and yes, it does get me a more accurate page-count over the "print 50 of everything" method, with the tradeoff being accuracy vs ease.

I guess I was just having a "wouldn't it be nice if..." moment.

I think I will convert the first document to the single page method though, as it sounds like that's the best solution.

Thanks for the assistance.

Cheers!
~Joe