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I am publishing a 5.5 by 8.5 booklet. I created this document in Word 2007 and will be converting it to PDF. It looks good as is, but I can't seem to figure out how to add page numbers automatically to this document.

In general, I know how to add page numbers using footers, etc, but this application is a bit different: I have two pages (5.5 by 8.5) on one landscape 8.5 by 11 page.

I guess I could manually add page numbers, but then getting the formatting perfect will be tough. Any ideas?

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After some great ideas from quack quixote, I tried some other stuff and found an answer to this question. I converted the Word document to PDF and, then using Illustrator, opened the document and formatted it the way I needed to and added page numbers. Then I can save back into a PDF. It worked nicely, and I gained additional formatting flexibility.

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I haven't done this since Word '97 so I can't provide a step-by-step procedure, but either method should be quite achievable:

  1. You could manually add page numbers in a page footer; formatting won't be overly difficult that way. Use centered tabstops in the footer prototype to make numbering easier.

  2. Or, you can revert to a standard document designed for portrait 8.5"x11" pages (again, page numbers in the footer, but automatic numbering will suffice).

    When you go to print the document, set your print options to print 2 pages per page (one-sided) or 2 pages per side (double-sided). This should handle the rotating and placing 2-pages-in-landscape for you. Print that way to a PDF printer to get a nice PDF pre-formatted just the way you want it.

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