Monday, December 4, 2017

Printing 4 Copies Per Sheet In Word 2016

Just the other day I was presented with a request to put a one page, letter size Word document 4 times on a single sheet of letter paper. The end goal was simply to be able to print out 4 copies per page to create postcard sized invitations. I wasn't sure how to go about this, but after putting together a few Google search results, I came up with the answer.

We'll start with the completed document, which was a full page Christmas party invitation.


  1. Click on 'File | Print', and chose the printer you wish to print to. Now, in my case, I wanted to be able to send the document to someone else for printing, so I chose 'Microsoft Print to PDF' for my printer.
  2. Under 'Settings', then 'Pages', enter 1,1,1,1   * This tells Word that you want page 1 of the document printed four times.
  3. At the bottom of the list of settings, change the number of pages per sheet from '1 Page Per Sheet' to '4 Pages Per Sheet'
  4. Click 'Print'


And that was it! Simple, but effective. Here is the resultant PDF document that was created.



While this is a fairly simple procedure, it actually took reading three different articles to figure out the steps to this problem. Hopefully this will save someone else the hassle of multiple searches.

Have a great week everyone!