Printing 2 pages on 1 side of paper or printing on both sides of paper will save a lot of paper, avoiding unnecessary paper usage when you print reference documents or documents that do not necessarily need to be printed on 1 side of paper. Currently, we can adjust Word, PowerPoint and Excel to print 2 pages on the same side of paper for easy viewing, if the document is not too long to be able to be condensed on 1 side of paper. The following article will guide readers on how to print 2 pages on 1 side of paper.
1. How to print 2 Word pages on 1 sheet of paper
First, open the Word file you want to adjust the printout for, then click File > Print .
Next, we go to the Settings section , then in the 1 page per Sheet section , click to select the number of pages to print on 1 sheet of paper, here choose 2 pages on 1 sheet of paper . Next, you choose the printer to print. Click the Print button above to proceed with creating the print.
Now display the interface to save the new print on the computer.
As a result, we will see the document printed on one side of the paper. In case you want to have an additional step to adjust the margins, you can use the Shrink One Page feature to shrink the content in 1 page. Please refer to the article How to automatically shrink Word documents .
2. Instructions for printing Excel on 1 sheet of paper
This spreadsheet is currently 2 pages long and we will adjust it to print on only 1 page.
In the Excel interface, click on Page Layout and then look down at Scale to Fit . Then in Width, select 1 page , and in Height, select 1 page .
The resulting Excel document has been condensed into one sheet of paper.
In case the Excel table has many columns and spans many pages, you can try some other ways in the article How to print Excel on 1 A4 page .
3. How to print multiple Powerpoint slides in 1 page
We can also shrink PowerPoint slides to print on the same sheet of paper. Open the PowerPoint file and click File > Print .
Now we will adjust the number of PowerPoint slides printed on the paper . We can choose the number of slides you want to print on the same page.
As a result, you will see multiple slides displayed on the same page as shown below.
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