Set up and print a letter-sized booklet or newsletter
You can create a folded booklet or newsletter that has 8.5-by-11-inch pages if your printer supports printing on 11-by-17-inch (or tabloid) paper. While this article refers to standard US letter-size pages (8.5 x 11), you can use this technique with any publication whose page size is half that of the paper size.
Set up the booklet or newsletter
Open the publication that you want to print as a folded booklet.
On the Page Design tab, click the Page Setup dialog launcher
In the Page Setup dialog box, under Layout type, click Booklet.
Make sure that the Width is 8.5 and the Height is 11.
Under Margin Guides, change the margins if you want.
Under the booklet graphic, you should see the following (for a 4-page booklet):
Page size 8.5 x 11
Paper size 17 x 11
Page order 4, 1, 2, 3
Click OK.
If you are prompted to automatically insert pages, click Yes. Microsoft Publisher will insert pages so that the total number is a multiple of four, because one sheet of paper becomes four pages.
Note: Your booklet will print correctly only when the total number of pages is a multiple of four, but you don't have to place content on all four of the inserted pages. You can leave some of them blank.
Print the booklet or newsletter
Click File > Print.
In the Print dialog box, under Printer, select a printer that can print on 11 x 17 or tabloid paper.
Under Settings, select the following:
Print All Pages
Booklet, side-fold
Tabloid or 11 x 17
Landscape (Publisher 2010 only)
Manual 2-Sided Print, Flip sheets on short edge or Print on Both Sides, Flip sheets on short edge
Select any other options that you want, and then click OK to print the publication.
Microsoft Office Publisher prints the first and last pages on one side of the sheet of paper, the second and next-to-last on the other side of the sheet, and so on, as shown here.
If your printer doesn't support two-sided printing, Microsoft Publisher prints the first and last pages on one sheet of paper, the second and next-to-last on another sheet, and so on. When you photocopy the pages back to back, fold, and then staple or bind them together, they will be in the right order. Alternatively, you can use manual 2-sided printing.
