converting a legal document to letter

D

Dave

I have a bunch of legal documents that I need to convert to letter size.

Is there an easy way to accomplish this? I want the content of the legal
document to be resized to fit accordingly in the letter sized document.
 
J

Jean-Guy Marcil

Dave said:
I have a bunch of legal documents that I need to convert to letter size.

Is there an easy way to accomplish this? I want the content of the legal
document to be resized to fit accordingly in the letter sized document.

There si no easy way to modify the document. You would have to go through
each page in legal size, make the first paragraph on each page set with the
"Page Break Before" setting (So you know where each page starts). Then you
could convert to Letter size. Then you would have to find a way to place 3
inches worth of text back on the previous page. You could reduce font size,
font spacing, interline space, paragraph spacing, etc...

A big mess...

Instead, look in your "Printing" dialog (Ctrl-P). In the bottom right corner
there is a Zoom section. In that Zoom section you should have a Scaling
option. You can keep the document formatted in Legal size, but scale it down
to Letter size when printing. Keep in mind that this will create slightly
larger left/right margins as each page is shrunk to fit a a letter size page
(Letter and Legal size have the same width, just a different length).
 
D

Dave

Thanks for your response Jean-Guy

I really need to not only resize and print the documents but I need to
resize and save them in a letter size so that they can be modified.
 
J

Jean-Guy Marcil

Dave said:
Thanks for your response Jean-Guy

I really need to not only resize and print the documents but I need to
resize and save them in a letter size so that they can be modified.

I did address that issue in my first reply, and I quote:

"There si no easy way to modify the document. You would have to go through
each page in legal size, make the first paragraph on each page set with the
"Page Break Before" setting (So you know where each page starts). Then you
could convert to Letter size. Then you would have to find a way to place 3
inches worth of text back on the previous page. You could reduce font size,
font spacing, interline space, paragraph spacing, etc..."

Or do you have another question?
 

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