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Old 06-27-2010, 11:09 AM
cindymiller cindymiller is offline Three easy (certainly for experts!) Word-questions Windows Vista Three easy (certainly for experts!) Word-questions Office 2003
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First of all, I'm totally new to Word, so please bear this in mind while reading my questions of answering them...

For a newsletter I have finally managed to make a reasonable template that I can use throughout the entire Newsletter, apart from a few minor changes on certain pages. The skeleton is now ready. However:



1. I have made three skeleton pages apart from each other, but HOW do I combine them into ONE document? Because of the fact that this Newsletter is made up of text-boxes, a SELECT ALL does not work, so I cannot copy my one page and paste it after an existing one. How does one use SELECT ALL on a page that is made up of textboxes and how can I paste that after an existing page?

2. My second questions is related to that: if I select the option Textbox, on the page it says "Make your drawing here" (I have a Dutch Word-version, so forgive translation-errors!). Why do I get a message about making a drawing, while all I want to do is have a container for plain text?

3. When invoking graphics, how can I exactly determine where on the page I can place the graphic? If I do this, it places the graphic somewhere on the page, but I cannot drag it to the place I want to.

Hope my questions are making sense and that someone can help me.

Best regards,
Cindy Amsterdam
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Old 06-28-2010, 02:58 PM
BrazzellMarketing BrazzellMarketing is offline Three easy (certainly for experts!) Word-questions Windows XP Three easy (certainly for experts!) Word-questions Office 2007
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First, something that could be helpful in the long run but that you probably don't want to hear. For multi-page newsletters, Microsoft Publisher will be the better software to use in the long run. Word is more for single page documents, letters, and reports. You will find the built-in functionality of Publisher more helpful with multi-page newsletters - especially newsletters with columns.

If CTRL+A is not picking up your text boxes, I think you will have to individually select, copy, and paste each text box.

When you start inserting a text box, I think the message is supposed to be "Draw textbox," not "Make your drawing." However, Word does want you to "draw" the text box by clicking and dragging the tool to determine the box's starting dimensions and location.

In 2003, for both graphics and text boxes, you can gain more control over the placement by formatting the object. Right click the object in question. Select "format" image or whatever. Go to the layout tab. Click advanced at the bottom of that tab. Notice the horizontal and vertical picture position options. Because Word is more for letters and reports, it defaults that pictures should flow with text rather than having a fixed position on the page. This is alignment relative to paragraph and column. You can fix an object's position on the page by choosing an alignment relative to the page or its margins. Also notice the advanced text wrapping options while you're in there.

Good luck!
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Old 06-30-2010, 03:32 AM
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Very similar response to Brazzell, however, simply double click at the bottom of your page and hit Ctrl (Control) and Enter....this creates a page break and will create a new page for you. Open the other document (which contains the text boxes), hit Ctrl + A (Select All), copy the area by hitting Ctrl + C (Copy) and then hit Ctrl + V (Paste) into the new page, follow this process to insert any further pages and text boxes.

Now for the next question....

When you insert a text box a canvas will appear that reads "Create your Drawing Here", you will also notice an icon shaped like a cross has replaced your little arrow...use this to draw your text box, don't worry about shape and size for now, anything will do as you can change the size later. Once created move the text box, simply select once of the four sides and drag it outside of the drawing canvas. You will notice that the canvas has dissapeared but screwed everything else up, don't worry, it's still there and causing problems. Select the area where it used to be and you will notice that it re-appears again, hit delete and 'whalla', you've kept your new text box and the canvas has gone( Unfortunatley I'm unsure of how to remove this drawing canvas so this process will have to be follwoed everytime, unless you just copy and paste the text box you have just created)

Hope this helps.


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Old 12-26-2010, 02:18 AM
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Doom and Brazzel, thanks for your replies, which I have considered the last few months. I've decided to try Brazzel's suggestion and use Microsoft Publisher. He (or she) is right! Publisher indeed is the tool I was looking for and I'm currently doing this newsletter in Publisher, much to my and everyone else's satisfaction. Thank the both of you for your replies!

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