How to print a book from Word?

Hi Kees. Thanks for the reply...

I could do that - and it will be my solution if nothing better comes up. But my reason for wanting a better way is that I'll be printing the book in various versions from time to time...

Specifically, I'm talking about a book containing chords and lyrics for pop-songs. Everytime I play a gig (I'm a musician) I can then print a book containing the exact songs that we're playing this evening - and when I get new tunes, I can just add them under the right letter in the word-document, and they'll be part of my "printable repertoire"

So any additional ideas (or knowledge of templates for word on OSX?) would be appreciated...

/Lars

I would have done it Kees way as there seems to be no easy solution other than using a commercial printing service, and they probably would not entertain a print run of just one.

But if you are using Microsoft Office, does your Office suite include Publisher? Mine does but I have never looked at it before, but have just had a look and it seems to offer a "Publish as a book" option in the Print Preview.

It looks interesting.

If you don't have Publisher what about using lateral thinking to solve this, eg;

Make a copy of the file so you can work on the copy and not the original.
Create a new blank document.
Keep the A4 paper size but change it from Portrait to Landscape.
Reformat the pages so they are in Newspaper Columns, two to a page.
From your copy, number each page manually into A5 book format.
From the copy of your document copy and paste each page into the newspaper columns document in the order that would create a book.
Print.

It would be laborious the first time, but once it is set up it may be easier to maintain it.

Good luck.

Mark

See http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6129_102-0.html?forumID=29&threadID=246184&messageID=2478050 for links.

Hope this helps.


Kees

With the risk of being laughed at, this looks to technical for me...

I think I'll try and make a model in excel where I can input the nr. of pages and then get a overview of which pages to match together... I'm not really sure yet, but maybe it can be done mathematically...

Thanks for the help though...