Choosing What Printer Paper Trays to Use

By default, Word pulls paper from the default paper tray in your printer. If your office uses preprinted letterhead, you probably want to use the letterhead for the first page of your documents and plain paper for the remaining pages. To do this, you need to instruct your printer to pull the paper for the first page from one paper tray and the paper for the remaining pages from another. (This assumes that your printer has more than one paper tray.)

Follow these steps to tell Word which paper trays to use for the first page and remaining pages of your document:

1. Choose File, Page Setup to display the Page Setup dialog box.

2. Click the Paper tab if it isn't already in front (see Figure 8.16).

   Figure 8.16. Use the Paper tab of the Page Setup dialog box to specify which paper trays your printer should draw paper from.

   

3. Choose the paper tray to use for the first page in the First Page list, and choose the tray for the remaining paper in the Other Pages list. (The names of the trays vary depending on your printer. If you aren't sure which trays to choose, check your printer manual.)

4. Click OK .