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Rae - 02 Jul 2007 20:40 GMT

I am making up a post wedding invitation. I want to print it out on a regular
piece of card stock. There will be 4 invitations per page. How can I get each
invitation centered (vertical & horizontal) in it's own 1/4 section of the
paper? I know there has to be an easy answer...It is just eluding me.
THANKS!
Rae;-)

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Herb Tyson [MVP] - 02 Jul 2007 21:19 GMT

What version of Word? Assuming 2003, try:

File - Print, and set Pages per sheet: to 4.

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>I am making up a post wedding invitation. I want to print it out on a
>regular
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> THANKS!
> Rae;-)

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Rae - 02 Jul 2007 23:34 GMT

I am sorry...I am working with Office 2003.
The 4 sheets to a page didn't help. But thanks!
Rae ;-)

> What version of Word? Assuming 2003, try:
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Rae - 03 Jul 2007 00:34 GMT

I GOT IT! I fooled around with the margins then used trial and error. Just
think there should be an easier way!

> I am sorry...I am working with Office 2003.
> The 4 sheets to a page didn't help. But thanks!
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> > > THANKS!
> > > Rae;-)

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Herb Tyson [MVP] - 03 Jul 2007 16:02 GMT

I'm glad you got it working. However, I'm surprised that 4 pages per sheet
didn't work for you, since I've used that approach for invitations many
times, and it's worked perfectly without a lot of trial and error. The key
for me was to use both vertical and horizontal centering, which eliminated
trial and error.

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>I GOT IT! I fooled around with the margins then used trial and error. Just
> think there should be an easier way!
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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 03 Jul 2007 18:46 GMT

But using "4 pages per sheet" requires that you set the invitation up as a
full sheet and then reduce it, which requires trial and error on font sizes.
Not to mention that it works a lot better with A sizes (A4, A5, etc.) than
with U.S. sizes since the A sizes all have the same aspect ratio.

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> I'm glad you got it working. However, I'm surprised that 4 pages per sheet
> didn't work for you, since I've used that approach for invitations many
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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 03 Jul 2007 06:30 GMT

Tools | Letters and Mailings | Envelopes and Labels. On the Labels tab,
click Options and select Avery 5845 Note card, and click OK. In the Labels
dialog, click New Document. This will create a sheet of four cards. They are
set up as a table, so be sure you display table gridlines (Table | Show
Gridlines) so you can see the card boundaries.

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> I am making up a post wedding invitation. I want to print it out on a regular
> piece of card stock. There will be 4 invitations per page. How can I get each
> invitation centered (vertical & horizontal) in it's own 1/4 section of the
> paper? I know there has to be an easy answer...It is just eluding me.
> THANKS!
> Rae;-)

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