In both cases you were turning on Booklet in the driver and the application (or the file itself is already in booklet format), there is no other way for that to happen.
I'm going to skip publisher because it is such a bad print program.
Assuming you have a document, in pdf format, that is Letter sized, and going on tabloid paper, and is one page per page as shown right here in the Acrobat window. (Must be auto, must show only one page in the preview)
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Then go to Properties > Finishing > Booklet Creation (Do not set anything for sizes or duplex here)
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Choose Booklet fold and staple, deselect Page borders , then click the Weird thingamajig
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Choose exactly the highlighted entries and print the job
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And that job will print properly, unless your job does not match mine, in which case, provide the file and I will explain yours (pdf, not pub, I'm not willing to use Publisher)