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Wednesday 16 March 2011

How to print two pages per sheet

Cutting down on the amount of paper used in printing not only saves money, but is also more environmentally friendly. Some applications offer the option of printing multiple pages per sheet of paper. In this post I will show you how to print two pages per sheet in MS Word and Adobe Acrobat Reader.

MS Word
Open the print dialogue from the 'File' menu in older versions of Word, or by clicking the Office Button in newer versions (as shown below).


Simply set 'Pages per sheet' to '2 pages' and click 'OK'.



Adobe Acrobat
Open the print dialogue from the 'File' menu.
Change 'Page Scaling' to 'Multiple pages per sheet' and 'Pages per sheet' to '2'.



OpenOffice
I found no easy way to print two pages per sheet in OpenOffice, but you can save the file as a pdf using the 'Export as PDF' tool in the 'File' menu and then open it in Adobe Acrobat and follow the above instructions.

11 comments:

Unknown said...

I found no easy way to print two pages per sheet in OpenOffice, but you can save the file as a pdf using the 'Export as PDF' tool in the 'File' menu and then open it in Adobe Acrobat and follow the above instructions.

Borkiman said...

merton: Yep. That's what I wrote.

Integral IT said...

Nice tip! It's crazy to think how many pages get printed that are totally wasted with 1 line of text them etc. Definitely makes sense to get it onto two where possible.

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Borkiman said...

Thanks for all the comments

online tech support said...

Thanks for this great tip. Instead of using lots of paper, a substantial number of them can be saved when this printing technique is applied.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for this great tip, you save my day...!!!

Borkiman said...

... as well as saving you money

Remote Tech Support said...

Good explanation. Thanks for the info.

Unknown said...

When will you be doing another article on this subject? 

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