4 word forms on 1 paper page.

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I have created a full page (81/2 x 11) form, (actually a simple receipt). I
would now like to take that form, shrink it and put 4 of them on one sheet of
paper. After printing, I will then cut the paper and have 4 forms/receipts
that are 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". I can't for the life of me figure out how to do
it. Someone did it for me once a long while ago and they used paint and word.
Somehow pasting one to the other. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Brian.
 
No need for Paint and paste.

In the Print dialog, in the lower right, set the "Pages per sheet" dropdown
to 4. Then, in the Pages box under "Page range", type

1,1,1,1

to get four copies of page 1. They'll all print on one sheet, automatically
resized. Note that all the fonts and everything else will be reduced to half
the size you see in the Print Layout View.

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Graham - Thank-you! Thank-you! Thank-you! It was exactly what I needed. This
site has the most helpful folks. Cheers, Brian.
 
Thank-you Jay, Boy, do I feel dumb. I knew there had to be an easy answer,
but this method is ultra easy. Thanks to you and Graham. Cheers, Brian.
 
Hi Graham, My 4 forms look great on the 1 page but the problem I have now is
that when I cut the page to separate the forms, the margins on the cut-lines
become smaller. Perhaps that is why the person who did it for me once in the
past used the paint and paste method. Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks, Brian.
 
The alternative approach is to use a four cell table and create four
versions of the document.

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The alternative approach is to use a four cell table and create four
versions of the document.
Click to expand...

Hi Graham,
That kinda brings me back to my original question- How do i do that? Cut and
Paste? Is the paint program involved? If not, then after creating a four cell
table, do I need to manually produce (retype 4 times)the form in each cell,
separately? Each cell, naturally, is smaller than my original 1 page version
and therefore it becomes more difficult to manipulate the text accurately in
such a small space/cell manually. This is why I'm thinking...'if I could only
reduce the size of my original and just paste it into a four cell table'....
Thanks for your help, Brian.
 
You can select and edit > paste special > as a picture the selected
document into a fixed width table cell, but this is altogether more fiddly
to produce a shrunken document than the print 4 to a page method.

It might help if you were to download the trial version of SnagIt 8
www.techsmith.com and use its 'printer' output to 'print' to a graphic
format file. You can then use the SnagIt Editor to trim or add to the
margins.

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