Microsoft Publisher help requested

I edit a monthly newsletter using Microsoft Publisher. My older son, who’s 10, enjoys writing his own “newspaper” for his friends using the same program.

Now, when I edit the newsletter, I print out a paper copy to give to the print shop along with the CD copy. Each page of the finished newsletter occupies one page of my print-out, although the newsletter pages as professionally printed are half the size of the print-out. (Following so far?) What appears as two facing pages on the screen, and in the final newsletter, takes up two sheets of paper on my print-out. That appears to be the default for Publisher.

Since fella bilong missus flodnak has begun to worry about the amount of ink the kid is using, flodjunior would like to print out his newspaper at half-size, so that two pages of the newsletter, ideally the two facing pages as they appear on screen, only take a single sheet of paper. My question, quite simply, is whether this is possible to do at home, and if so how?

(Another option, of course, is to use smaller fonts and shrink the clip art, but this is not nearly as cool as the two-facing-pages look, not to mention needlessly simple…)

You didn’t mention what version you’re using, but in MS Pub 2003 this ought to get you started …

Open a new blank document. On the menu, go to File | Page Setup …

On the Layout tab, under Publication type, select Booklet.

Oops, sorry. I have Publisher as part of Office 2000 Premium.

Page setup has no “booklet” function. It does have an option for “Special Fold”, which looks like it should be the same thing, but when I try to use that on an existing document, everything just comes out as an unholy mess. I’ll suggest that he try again with a new document, maybe that will work better?