28 May 2026

Booklet Printing - Update

In a post back in 2024 I shared my frustration with you that Booklet Printing had seemingly disappeared from MS Word and at the time I wasn't sure who to blame until the finger pointed at Microsoft as the culprits. 

In that post I shared a variety of work arounds on how to print in booklet format again, none of them very elegant. 

Well either Microsoft have realised the error of their ways or they hid it from view but booklet printing is back... 

MS Word365 Mac

Tucked away in the 'Pages per Sheet' option in the Print Dialogue box at the bottom of the list 'Print As Booklet' is there! 

Easy for Mac users then!! 

Windows users it's a little more involved, but I fount this support page: 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-booklet-or-book-in-word-dfd94694-fa4f-4c71-a1c7-737c31539e4a

And yes it worked: 

MS Word 365 Windows 11

As with any change to your workflow I strongly suggest that you experiment by just printing say the first 8 pages to check that the results are as you expect them to be, rather than printing the whole file and then discovering that printed results are only worthy of the recycling bin. Lots of wasted paper and ink/toner. 


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  1. Kevin28 May, 2026 10:20

    I think it's pretty poor that the printing option has been moved to 'page setup'. Page setup should be about the basic document. How you print that document is a separate issue; essentially, the processes of page composition and page imposition. These processes have been used since photolithographic and digital publishing started.

    Going back to needing to decide on the imposition at the point of page composition seems to be returning to a 'paper printing paradigm' of actual physical type blocks.

    Another possibility, though it has a learning curve, is to use Montax Imposer to do the imposition for printing.

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