Trying to print (as PDF) two A4 pages onto one A3 sheet

Hi...I am using Word 2013. I am trying to print two A4 pages onto one A3 sheet.  I need to print to PDF not a hard copy output to then send to a commercial print company.  In Word 2003, all I had to do was go to Print, select the option ‘two pages to a sheet’ and change the page size to A3.  I then selected CutePDF or NitroPDF from the printer options.  The result was a single A3 landscape page PDF with my two portrait pages side by side.

I cannot achieve this with Word 2013.  When I use the equivalent print settings, I get a single paragraph on the first page (landscape) and then the remainder of that original page content on a second page (portrait) and my original second page now as third page.  I do have section breaks and text boxes in the document – but that was never an issue in Word 2003.

I have trawled the web, chatted with an Answer Tech person and spoken to MS tech support in the UK – but with no success.  Can anyone help?

If CutePDF or NitroPDF is installed you select File>Print then select that PDF printer, and within that amend the print page settings
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Marvelleous! Thank you very much.

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I should've tested it better before I responded!  Unfortunately the printing settings in both CutePDF and NitroPDF won't let me achieve this either.  With both of them, the final output is to an A4 page, even when I select A3 in the settings.  Still looking for a solution.

Why could I do this easily in Word 2003 and not in Word 2013?

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