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Printing booklets is a common task that many users want to accomplish. The best way to create a booklet depends on the version of Word you are using. Fortunately, Word includes built-in capabilities to print booklets. Follow these steps to set up your document as a booklet:
Figure 1. The Margins tab of the Page Setup dialog box.
When you print your document, you should choose to print two-sided if you have a printer that will automatically duplex. If not, you should choose the Manual Duplex check box in the Print dialog box, and then feed the pages through the printer twice.
If you prefer, you can also use a third-party program that produces booklets. A few programs suggested by WordTips readers include the following:
Another alternative would be to save you document as a PDF and print the booklet from the PDF program. You may also be able to print booklets by using the capabilities of your printer. Some printers will handle booklet printing automatically. Refer to your printer manual or do some searching through the printer driver settings to find more information.
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2025-08-06 13:32:10
Barbie
If I understand this correctly, it would print pages 1 & 2 side by side on one sheet of a paper, and pages 3 & 4 side by side on the other side. When folded in half, this does NOT produce a booklet with page 1 on top, 2 & 3 inside, and 4 on the back, as would presumably be desired. To do that, you must have pages 4 & 1 on one side of the sheet of paper (in that order left to right), and 2 & 3 on the other side. It gets even more complicated if your booklet is large enough to require several pieces of paper folded inside one another. My own method involves custom margins and sending each sheet through the printer twice, double-sided each time...and trying not to get confused about which page numbers to ask for and which way to put the paper back in the printer... (To add to the confusion, when I print a range of pages, my printer does them last-to-first, I suppose with the idea that for a basic print job, you want page 1 to end up on top of the stack with the last page on the bottom.)
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