Word cross platform incompatability

This might not be the best place to post this question as it relates to Word...
But my son is getting all sorts of grief working on my Mac, and then having to go off to his mum's place to use her PC, all because Word for Mac doesn't seem to have Pagefold.
In case you don't know what that is, it's a part of MS Word [PCs] which collates all the pages so that a booklet will print out in the right order etc ready for stapling.
When he puts his saved work into the PC the MS Word there decides to change the size of the area his work fits on the page. He then has to resize everything. One of his pages got really messed up.
He's in a foul mood, and I don't blame him - he's spent ages trying to do this, and is late for hand-in, which is against his principles,,
So..... my question is: does anyone know if there is an equiv for Pagefold?
My research comes up with nothing - except some weird and complicated way of printing the thing, which I can't follow!
I wonder why Mac didn't include such a useful tool in their Word version???
Thanks
John

john fuller3 wrote:
I wonder why Mac didn't include such a useful tool in their Word version???
That is a Microsoft question. I have no idea. Also, I've never heard of PageFold even on the Windows version of Word. I strongly suspect that is a 3rd party addition that has nothing to do with Microsoft, let alone Apple.
There are at least a dozen similar 3rd party tools for the Mac that will do the same thing. Try CocoaBooklet for a free, very basic tool. For something much fancier and more powerful, look at PDFClerk.

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