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Duplex 2-up printing (VBA for MS Word?)
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Duplex 2-up printing (VBA for MS Word?)

  • Subject: Duplex 2-up printing (VBA for MS Word?)
  • From: Nathan Bailey <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:51:14 +1000
I am having problems trying to achieve this outcome:
Print the current document in 2-up duplex (ie. scale pages to 2 pages per page and use double-sided printing)

I have a script:
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do shell script "makedoc" -- creates an MS Word document and opens it
tell application "Microsoft Word"
activate
--still need to work out (a) how to set duplex and (b) how to do pages per sheet when PrintZoomColumn doesn't seem to work
do Visual Basic " ActiveDocument.PrintOut Range:=wdPrintFromTo, From:=\"1\", To:=\"4\""
close windows saving no
end tell
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I found this message in the archives:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2006/Apr/msg00176.html
but without any direct advice to address it.

By googling, I've found that there is some VBA ("SetDuplex 3") and an argument to PrintOut (PrintZoomColumn:=2) that will do what I want, but MS Word (Word 2004, Version 11.3.5) doesn't seem to recognise PrintZoomColumn as a valid argument or SetDuplex 3 as a valid function (I presume it needs some context I am missing).

I have a printer preset in the printer dialog called "2-up duplex" which, if I could select, I would be happy! :-)

thanks for any help/guidance!
Nathan
PS: "close windows saving no" probably doesn't do what I want, but once I get everything else working, I'll work out how to only close the current document in AppleScript -- or you can correct me :-)
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