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Please tell me what the problem is with printing booklets. Everytime
I print one the First days of teh calendar appear on page one and the
the last three days and the notes appear on page two. In other
versions of Outlook they printed on page two and three. Which is the
way they should. Is no one printing out calendars any more? I've
posted many times for help on this and can't get any. I'm using
outlook XP. Is there a fix for this problem?

Eric
 
Tell us more. Are you printing a weekly or monthly calendar? To which
booklet style?
 
OK, here you go...

The settings are as follows:

This is Outlook 2003
Go to month calendar view (31 day)
Chose Print from the File menu
Chose "monthly style"

In the "print range" select "start" the present date. and in the "end"
select five are more months ahead (although the amount of months
really doesn't matter it helps to explain what problem I'm having.)

I don't know your printer, but at home i have a non-duplexing printer
so I choose the "odd pages" under the "number of pages." At my office
i can bypass this becuase my printer is duplexing. But I get the same
result no matter whatever I do.

Now choose the "page setup" button.

Under the FORMAT tab; under "options/layout" choose the "2 pages per
month selection.

Now select the "PAPER" tab at the top.

Under "type" choose 8 1/2 X 11in.

Now to the right choose 5 one down which should be "1/2 sheet booklet"

Under "orientation" set it to portrait.

Now select "print preview"

As you see (if you've selected everything right) page 1 should show up
on the right of the page and your last page (page 16 in mine) is
printed on the same page on the left side. now go back and print the
even pages and you will see the page 2 prints on the back of page one.
page two just hapens to be the other half of page one. Now when you
cut this all apart nd try to essemble it, you will see the problem.
page oneshouldn't be setting on top of page two. page one should be
blank basically. This was so in previous versions of Outlook.
meaning that both sides of the same month of the calendar were sided
by side and not front and back. this makes this feature usuless.

Please help. and thank you for your response. Didn't thin anyone
would respond.

Eric
 
Thank you for the easy-to-follow steps. The behavior is indeed different
between Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2003. I'll make sure this gets to the
attention of someone at Microsoft.

Unfortunately, I can't think of a workaround.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Thank you so much Sue. I almost feel like I'm the only one using this
feature since I can't find anyone else that appears to be having the
problem and I know they are. Hope MS can fix this. I'd use it all
the time. The way it is makes it (for all pratical purposes)
unusable.

Eric
 
I heard from Microsoft Support, and they confirmed that this is a known bug.
Unfortunately, though, they said it might not get fixed until Outlook 12,
the next version.
 
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