No, the booklet feature did not 'add' a cover page when I last used it. I just applied the booklet formatting to the specified text.
Want to create a booklet for your products or services? This accessible booklet template makes it easy to personalize a simple booklet to help you market your company. Follow the tips in the template to create a professional looking booklet. Change the look by using the built-in themes on the Design tab of the ribbon. May 14, 2019 Follow these steps to set up your document as a booklet: Display the Page Layout (Layout in Word 2016 or later versions) tab of the ribbon. Click the small icon at the bottom-right corner of the Page Setup group. Make sure the Margins tab is displayed. (See Figure 1.) Using the Multiple Pages.
Is there any chance you have a Next page section break, or your booklet starts with a heading that has the 'next page' attribute.
It is hard to guess at the cause. Could you upload an example file with this problem. The following instructions include a macro to randomize your text to protect your content.
Trouble shooting problems in files can be like a visit to the dentist, a long, slow painful process of us trying to “extract” the clues needed to recognize the problem in a back and forth flow of questions and answers so that we can come up with a / “the” solution.
Often it is faster and easier for everyone if we have a “sample file” get 'hands on', to look at, and to “play with”.
This next link provides some tips on setting up a sample file and specific instructions for uploading and 'sharing' it for us to access:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_other-winapps/trouble-shooting-share-onedrive-file/a231a097-bcbf-4e34-ad6c-a33118baf471?tm=1523189328156
Includes a link to a macro to randomize text in Word.
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Earlier, we posted a video on making a booklet in Word 2007.
Now, let’s take a look at Word 2010.
In the document that you want to print as a booklet, click the Page Layout tab and then click the Page Setup Dialog Box Launcher.
In the dialog box, in the Multiple pages list, click Book fold.
If you want to print separate signatures that can later be bound into one book, click the number of pages that you want in each signature in the Sheets per booklet list.
Adjust the margins and, if you want, specify a margin for the gutter (so that your words don’t get swallowed by the binding in the middle of a thick book).
Click OK.
Booklet Printing Microsoft Word Labels
If you want to have odd and even headers or footers–for example, if you want the page number on the outside corner of every page–double-click in the header or footer, and then click the Different Odd & Even Pages check box in the Options group.
Now you’ll add those page numbers or headers and footers separately–one for the odd pages and one for the even pages. If you’ve already added a page number or a header or footer, you’ll need to add it again on an even page.
If your booklet includes sections that aren’t linked, select the Different Odd and Even Pages check box and add the page number, header, or footer for each section in your booklet.
Now, click the File tab, and then click Print.
If your printer supports double-sided printing, click the Print on Both Sides option that has the correct paper-flipping edge–quite likely the short edge.
Printing A Book In Word
If your printer supports manual duplex printing, click Manually Print on Both Sides, and then make sure that you flip the pages the right way (again, probably on the short edge).
Microsoft Word Booklet Printing Problems
— Joannie Stangeland