Creating a document with multiple pages per sheet in Word 365 (windows 11)

Question

Suddenly the "print multiple pages per sheet" option seems no longer to be available in Microsoft Word 365 on Windows 11. I have followed each instruction, but in each approach, where the dialogue that would allow the "print on multiple pages per sheet" should be, there is nothing. I want to be able to lay out as if printing on custom stock. Can you even still create labels in Word, or is microsoft taking away even more?

Answer 1

In the future, even if it is tedious, please one question per post. You will get quicker, better answers that way. This is a user-to-user support forum. The best answers come from your fellow users, volunteers.

1. Suddenly the "print multiple pages per sheet" option seems no longer to be available in Microsoft Word 365 on Windows 11. I have followed each instruction, but in each approach, where the dialogue that would allow the "print on multiple pages per sheet" should be, there is nothing.
2. I want to be able to lay out as if printing on custom stock.
3. Can you even still create labels in Word, or is microsoft taking away even more?

3. Yes, you can create labels. It is under the Mailings tab. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-and-print-labels-82086c07-2afa-4982-9d7d-9c9141d5035b
4. Not sure I understand. Word is not a page layout program but a word processor.

Publisher is closer to being page layout.

1. Not sure what you are doing or seeing. How to include a screenshot in your post here.

I am on Windows 10 and that may make a difference, I'm not sure. Here is what I see:

Answer 2

Hi Charles. Thank you for your quick and thoughtful response. I expected to wait a few days.

Here is the screen I was expecting to see (from a video about setting up to print multiple pages per sheet (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFXwXbYCK5Y) which was posted in 2020 when we were in the Office 365 environment. My goal was to print 4 graphics, each 4 x 4 in size per sheet in Word/Office 365 on Windows 11. I just got to install 11 yesterday, "so far, so good."

This is the screen I got when trying to create the custom page. It would have been a simple 4-up document, or 4 pages per sheet.

So that is what I would like to be able to continue to do...create documents that might contain 2 or 4 or more documents on a page. Something like labels, but this could always be done within word, and still can be done within Publisher. BUT, I don't know how long Microsoft will continue supporting publisher. I have been hearing of its demise since about 2015.

Thanks for the help.

Lee

Answer 3

While you can achieve "2 pages per sheet" through the Page Setup dialog (see http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com/2PagesPerSheet.htm), you have to create full-size pages and print them reduced through the Print dialog in order to achieve more.

At Mailings | Create | Labels | Options, if you select "Microsoft" as the vendor, you can choose between Portrait and Landscape versions of "1/4 Letter," which will divide your page into four "pages," but it achieves this (as with any other label) by using a table, so it is entirely different from the "2 pages per sheet" option in Page Setup dialog, which actually creates two logical pages on one physical sheet, which can be handled just like real pages, with header, footer, page numbering, and text flow.

Answer 4

Try creating legal size documents in portrait mode and using the print dialog to put two pages on a sheet. You may want to adjust font size and margins but I think you will be happy with the result. This is much simpler than the method shown in the video.