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Want to use Word for exact layout - booklet of images
My objective is to prepare a handwritten booklet to take to Office Depot for two-sided printing. The booklet is small and I want to get two of the 8" x 5" pages per sheet.
I am trying to use Word 2007 to do this exact layout. My goal is to put two images of one side of a page next to each other on one sheet, then put two images of the back of the pages on another sheet positioned so exactly that I can make two-sided copies that line up back-to-back. To that end, I scanned the first two pages (a front and a back) and saved them as .jpg. In Word I called up a blank sheet, turned it to landscape, added gridlines, and put a mark at exactly the middle of 11" and of 8 1/2 inches, as shown by the on-screen rulers. it took me awhile to figure out that part, what with the margins jumping around as I selected and de-selected the text boxes, and I re-sized the screen image and used an actual ruler to do this, but then I still have something I can't figure out. I inserted the first image into the text box. The image is saved to 8" x 5". However, the image does not fill the box. This is not a border problem, because I can drag both the vertical and the horizontal image handles and enlarge it a bit before the image bumps the box to a bigger size. This is tedious and I have an 80-page document. I need the images to just fill the boxes. I did not find an option for asking Word to fill the whole box with the image. Help? Last edited by Charles Kenyon; 03-31-2017 at 09:36 AM. Reason: Add to title to clarify reason for post |
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Why are you inserting the images into a textbox? Bare images (floating) are no harder to deal with than textboxes.
Word is a very poor program for this purpose. Do you have access to Publisher? It might be superior. Keep in mind that your pages will need to be a multiple of 8. |
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Thank you, Charles!
Charles, thank you for taking a shot at this.
The booklet-printing advice might work, although I would have to enlarge the pages a bit to fit the sheets. Then I would print one set at home and let Office Depot copy from that. I don't think I would lose too much quality that way. I'll also try positioning and sizing the .jpgs without the text boxes. If I use Publisher (I think I have Publisher 2000 on a CD of Office) I would also have to print the document first, or maybe Publisher saves to Word format. Office Depot is limited in the formats they accept. You have given me a lot of ideas to try! |
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The thing to keep in mind is that when you are printing two pages per side double-sided you have four images per sheet and if they are then being center-stapled, the images will need to be out of order. So, I guess it is multiples of 4 rather than of 8.
For a 4-page booklet, you would have the first sheet be page 4 and page 1 on side one and page 2 and 3 on side two. For an eight page booklet, you would have page 8 and 1 on side one, pages 2 and 7 on side two, pages 6 and 3 on side one, and 4 and 5 on side two of the second sheet. You can't easily get Word to flow this way. |
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For bulk image insertion, with image sizes automatically constrained to predefined dimensions, see: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-...html#post47919
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Cheers, Paul Edstein [Fmr MS MVP - Word] |
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Charles, the booklet is spiral-bound and the copies will be spiral-bound too. there are too many pages to comfortably saddle-staple anyway.
Paul, thank you very much. It looks like the guide you directed me to will make the whole project much easier! |
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