Numbers Print Two Copies per Page

Bruce Kieffer wrote:

This works, but the size is shrunk too much.

As you already found, one page of PDF will fill the half of paper sheet on 2-copy/page printing.

You can try to adjust orientation and scale to make the sheet (tables, etc) fit in one page.

Numbers: [ Orientation=portrait, Fit=on ] (default)

Numbers: [ Orientation=landscape, Fit=on ] -> Open PDF in Preview

Preview: [ Copy per page=2, Orientation=portrait, Scale to Fit: & Fill enter paper=checked ]

With these steps, I don't see difference much in the size of first one and last one.

You can do 2-page/sheet printing in Details setting of Print dialog. ( actually up to 16 page/sheet )

For your case, adjust the scale (and change the orientation) to fit the table in one page on Print Preview.

Then,

1. Hit the [Print...] button (bottom right), which brings up Print dialog.
2. Hit [Show Details] button at bottom ( if Details is hidden )
3. Choose [Layout] ( 1 in fig )
4. Choose Pages per Sheet ( 2 in fig )

This is standard feature on OS X and works on almost every applications.

Hi Bruce,

The 'multiple pages on one sheet (of paper)' setting in the print dialogue when set to '2' will print pages 1 and 2 on the first sheet of paper, pages 3 and 4 on the second sheet, etc. It will not print two copies of the same page on the same sheet (unless you provide two copies of that page in the document).

IdrisSeabright's solution will give the result you want, and could be tweaked to avoid the need to edit both copies when changes are made in the table(s).

Here's an example:

Table 2-1 is a copy of Table 2.

After copying, I replaced the contents of Table 2-1 with this formula, entered in cell A1, then filled down and right to the rest of the cells in the table:

A1: =Table 2::A1

I then locked Table 2-1 to prevent editing or moving that table, then made the changes show in the center block of Table 2:

Results are shown in Table 2-1. Note that the Content, including the formatting (bold) of that content is transferred, but the formatting (colour fill) of the Cell(s) is not. Cell highlighting applied by a conditional highlighting rule would not be transferred, but if the corresponding cells on each table had the same CH rules applied, their highlighting, controlled by the rule(s) and the cell's content, would also match.

Regards,

Barry

Sorry, in the case, I do it as below with standard feature only.

1. In the Print dialog, choose "Open PDF in Preview" from [PDF] menu on lower left corner.
2. Print it with Details setting with 'Preview'>'Copies per Page' as 2.

Can you just copy the content you have and paste it into the extra space on the page? Then print that page?