Commands to Print Word Document in Reverse Order and Only Evens or Odds

Question

I have an HP Photosmart printer that doesn’t have automatic duplex printing, so instead of manually printing the odds and then flipping the paper and printing the evens, I decided to write a script (I’m very new to script writing, so go easy on me):
tell application "Microsoft Word"
print out active document print out page type print odd pages only
end tell
display dialog "After the papers finish printing and after you place the papers back into the printer, rotated 180º, click OK." buttons {"OK"} ¬
default button "OK" with icon note
set the user_choice to the button returned of the result
if the user_choice is "OK" then
tell application "Microsoft Word"
print out active document print out page type print even pages only
end tell
end if
The only things that are working are the printing and the dialog box. The odd pages and even pages scripts don’t seem to work (though I read this passage from Guy Hart-Davis’s +AppleScript: A Beginner’s Guide+ http://books.google.com/books?id=9uBeokAwNLsC&lpg=PA303&ots=ICfmxTfG-W&dq=apple% 20script%20print%20odd%20number%20pages&pg=PA303#v=onepage&q&f=false) and I can’t find any command that will print my even pages in a reverse order. Any help would be so much appreciated.
Message was edited by: mattshank

Answer 1

I believe I got the script to print the second round in reverse order, but I still can’t get it to print odd pages only and even pages only.
tell application "Microsoft Word"
print out active document
end tell
display dialog "After the papers finish printing and after you place the papers back into the printer, rotated 180º, click OK." buttons {"OK"} ¬
default button "OK" with icon note
set the user_choice to the button returned of the result
if the user_choice is "OK" then
tell application "Microsoft Word"
print with properties {print reverse}
end tell
end if