Re: Saddle-stiched booklets and Word

[Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM>]

Beth Friedman wrote:
>ClickBook is the only utility I know of that does what you're asking,
>but the second point implies the customer doesn't seem to understand
>what ClickBook does.  ClickBook is, in fact, an add-on for Word.  It's
>an alternative printer driver that takes the Word document and prints
>it as specified.  It doesn't touch the Word document itself.
>
>If it's the $80 pricetag for ClickBook that the customer doesn't want
>to incur, my only suggestion is that you print the pages out
>individually, lay them out as needed on 11x17" sheets of paper, and
>reduce the size when copying.
>
>I would be surprised to see any Word macro that does what you ask,
>since that sort of rearranging happens at the printing level, not the
>document level.
>
I concur with Beth's remarks about ClickBook, which I have used to good
advantage since its first incarnation. By an interesting coincidence,
Woody's Office Watch, *the* online newsletter for all things Office, flogs
its own solution in the latest issue. I have never used it and know nothing
more than what they say in this passage:

WOPR 97 AND THE WONDERS OF 2x4 -------------------
  Check WOPR 97 out.  Bet you'll love it. There's a reason
  why we're on ZDNet's Business Hotfiles list, read the
  review for yourself at
  http://www6.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode=000IDY

  Searching through the Ziff Davis database of Word Processor
  related files, I see that WOPR 6.0 and WOPR 95 both
  received FIVE STARS too... Thus, WOPR has earned a five
  star rating from ZD for quite a few years.

  There are versions of WOPR available for all releases of
  Winword - you can get your free evaluation copy from
  http://www.wopr.com/wwinfo/wopr.htm

  A few weeks ago I told you about Enveloper, the original
  WOPR component and still its most popular feature. (If you
  print envelopes in Word, you gotta try Enveloper.)

  This week, I'd like to bend your electronic ear for a few
  moments and tell you about 2 X 4, another "classic" WOPR
  component, updated and improved for WOPR 97.

  WOPR Two By Four" or 2x4 is a Word 97 add-in with several
  multi-page printing features worth crowing about.  WOPR 2x4
  has Duplex, 2Up, 4Up, Klone, TriFold Pamphlet, Greeting
  Cards, Thumbnails and Booklet printing. The multi-path
  printing options in 2x4 can save you reams of pape
r and
  there's even an option to save toner. You can save 25, 50
  or 75 percent of the toner a regular document page would
  require.

  Unlike a Wizard where you would have to start from scratch
  with a blank document and compose your thoughts as you go
  along, TwoByFour always works with an existing document
  that you have already written. You can format the pages of
  a Booklet exactly as you want them to look in the finished
  version and 2x4 will faithfully reproduce your design or
  you can start with a raw document and let 2x4 handle all
  the tricks for you. Unlike other products on the market
  which just grab your pages and shrink them down piecemeal
  like a photocopier, 2x4 will deal with each element
  individually. So you can have it shrink your tables to half
  size but leave your graphics alone or only shrink them by a
  third. You can have it change the fontsizes to anything you
  like and fix the spacing to match. It's all under your
  control. Why pay for a standalone product that doesn't give
  you anything like this level of control when you can have
  it all included in your WOPR bundle!

  If 2x4 needs to reformat something, 2x4 will make a
  tempora
ry copy of your original, shuffle things around, and
  then delete the temporary copy when everything has been
  printed. The beauty of this approach is that 2x4 never
  touches your original document (in other words, no
  worries).

  The 2x4 add-in began as a simple duplex-printing macro to
  obviate the need for an expensive Duplex printer then over
  time as people requested more and more features it has
  evolved into what you see today. (If there's anything you'd
  like to see included in 2x4, just drop eileen -at- wopr -dot- com a
  line. Don't be bashful.)

--Wayne
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