[mso] Re: Newsletter Page Layout in Word 2002
- From: Ray Shapp <ras45@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:27:02 -0400
Hi Norman, Genevieve, Dian, and All:
Many thanks for your help.
With your help, my daughter and I did produce a 17-page newsletter for our
astronomy club. And we met our deadline too. You can see it at
www.asterism.org Click Newsletter > Aug-2006. We learned more about Word in
the past several weeks than I did in the many previous years of working with
that beast.
Norman, I never did get tables to work for multi-column layout. For example,
I was able to put a headline spanning the whole page in the top row, but I
couldn't get 3 newsletter columns to work in the next row beneath the
headline. Maybe it was because I wanted to wrap the text columns around a
picture in the columns. I even tried three tall linked text boxes
side-by-side to form the columns, but I gave up on that.
Genevieve, I tried defining the columns before adding section breaks and then
the reverse sequence. I never found a technique that worked consistently. It
was particularly frustrating when I had to alter an already completed page. I
had a little more luck when I began inserting a hard page break before
beginning the alteration. That isolated the succeeding pages while I worked
on the alteration. The last step was to eliminate the blank page. Otherwise,
my changes on the one page kept ruining the layout on the next page.
Dian, after we put our issue to bed, I played for several hours with the
example in your article at
http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=216
I was able to duplicate most of the features in it, however, I frequently
ended up with an extra horizontal line under some of the columns. I
experimented with Format > Picture > Layout > Advanced with in-line, square,
tight options, and with text on left only, right only, and both sides, but I
never did find the combo that consistently eliminated the horizontal line. Is
there an option to kill automatic insertion of horizontal line? I do have
Tools > Options View Text Boundaries unchecked. Also, I don't have any
visible borders set on the page, however I did select the option for a
vertical line between columns.
While moving some of the graphics (using the technique in the paragraph
above), I often obliterated whole lines of text. Where did they go? Thinking
that the text was hidden behind the graphic,I even deleted the graphic in some
cases, but the text never re-appeared. How do I avoid clobbering portions of
the text when moving graphics?
One final question that may be OT here: When I convert the Word document to
PDF, the hyperlink to our website in the footer of all pages appears blue
(indicating a hyperlink), but the link is not active in Adobe Reader v7.0.7.
All the URLs in the body of the document are active after converting to PDF.
The link is active in the footer of the Word document. Is there a special
option to preserve the hotlink feature when converting Word to PDF?
I have questions about two other problems, but I'll put them in a separate
email.
Again, many thanks for all your help.
Ray Shapp
Using Word 2002 and WinXP Home
Ps: If you do view our newsletter, I would be happy to receive any comments
(positive or negative) offline at ras45@optonline,net
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