Urgent Help Needed Please

[Ann]

I have designed an order of service booklet for a funeral. I have set it all up on 8 pages in Microsoft word, typed out the hymns etc, added photos etc and got it exactly to what I want. When I print off the 8 pages in A4 size, they print off perfectly, but when I try to put 2 pages on one A4 sheet to make it booklet format, I know how to do it, but the font I am using spaces wrongly giving unequal gaps between the letters - very weird.
Anyone throw any light on this please? Someone has suggested I use Publisher but I don't want to really, I'm not that familiar with Publisher and it's all set up in Word. I can't understand why it's happening like this.

[Milvus]

Are you justifying both left and right margins? That can cause proportional spacing

[dunnitall]

Could be page set up needs margins expanding, put in two columns or something like that. Also put in landscape page mode. Not sure that will help but all I can think of off top of my head.

[Tilly2]

Ann, my first thought was Publisher. I can't help with your problem on Word.

Publisher is so easy to use. We used it all the time at school. ('We' being me and the children.)

[crisgal]

would you have time to copy and paste it onto a publisher? I know it's extra work, but it sounds like it's really a publishing job.
'serif page plus starter edition' is free, quick to install and more or less talks you through it.
I've been there and totally understand your frustration!
good luck

[wiltsman]

If you have Publisher as part of your Microsoft package, I would urge you to try it. You can always copy and paste hymns etc from what you've compiled in Word. If you're not familiar with Publisher, have a play around with it, I find it easy to use and is more manipulative than Word.

Last year I printed and published an Order of Service with Publisher and was very pleased with the result.

But if you haven't got it installed, then hopefully someone with more knowledge of Word than me will hopefully assist you.

I hope you manage to print it off successfully.

[Tuvok]

Simple solution - save it as a PDF.

If possible put it into page order eg. 1, 2, 3 etc. first.

From Acrobat you should be able to Booklet print it - you might also see "multiple sheets"

The difference between these options are booklet will impose the pages for yo, so you will end up with 8/1, 2/7 etc. Multiple pages will give you 1/2, 3/4 and the margins won't be correct for folding.

[Tuvok]

http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/print-booklets-acrobat-reader.html

[Ann]

Thanks all, I decided to change the font I was using (Monotype Corsiva) to Bradley Hand ITC and it seems to be working now. Probably Gremlins!