Create A Catalog

[ladiwolf]

I would like to create a catalog for my business. I have always sourced it
out, but now want to create my own. There are so many software programs out
there. I'm afraid that they won't work for me. I want a catalog with 2 rows,
up and down, with 8 items per row, per page. Will Publisher 2007 have a
template for this? I've tried downloading templates to my old version, but I
can't get the pictures to work properly. I was seeing if anyone has the
program and there is a catalog template in there before I buy. Thank you so
much in advance for any advice!!

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

Sure, why not?

You may resort to creating your own catalog though. Templates, to me at
least, seldom fit the bill.

However, if you're a busy business owner and don't know much about images,
and printing, graphics design; you may find it more cost effective to
continue to outsource it.



|I would like to create a catalog for my business. I have always sourced it
| out, but now want to create my own. There are so many software programs
out
| there. I'm afraid that they won't work for me. I want a catalog with 2
rows,
| up and down, with 8 items per row, per page. Will Publisher 2007 have a
| template for this? I've tried downloading templates to my old version,
but I
| can't get the pictures to work properly. I was seeing if anyone has the
| program and there is a catalog template in there before I buy. Thank you
so
| much in advance for any advice!!

 

[Mary Sauer]

Publisher comes with catalog templates built in. These consist of a cover and
the back page.

What you are wanting is something that has to be done manually and with a merge
database.

There are articles that will give you an idea how it all works. The Publisher
2003 how-to articles are far superior to 2007 versions. There is a training
article.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/CH010504381033.aspx

 

[John Inzer]

I would like to create a catalog for my business. I have always
sourced it out, but now want to create my own. There are so many
software programs out there. I'm afraid that they won't work for me.
I want a catalog with 2 rows, up and down, with 8 items per row, per
page. Will Publisher 2007 have a template for this? I've tried
downloading templates to my old version, but I can't get the pictures
to work properly. I was seeing if anyone has the program and there
is a catalog template in there before I buy. Thank you so much in
advance for any advice!!

=============================
The catalog you describe should be easy
enough to create in any version of Publisher.
Personally, I would just create a series
of text boxes and group them together...
8 in each column.

Please explain the problems you are
having with pictures.

Here are some tips that may help with
pictures.

1) When you are ready to import a picture...
click the "Picture Frame" button in your
Objects pane on the left of your screen.
When you choose "Picture from file"...
your pointer will change to a cross hair...
now...left click / drag a box the size you
want the picture to be in the location you
want it to appear. When you release the
mouse button, you will be able to browse
to the picture.

2) To replace an existing picture with a
different one...double left click the current
picture and the 'Insert Picture' window will
open so you can browse for a replacement.

3) Once you have a picture in the correct
position...Select it and the text box it's in
and group them together. Then if you happen
to move the text box...the picture will stay in
position.


--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[ladiwolf]

Publisher comes with catalog templates built in. These consist of a cover and
the back page.

What you are wanting is something that has to be done manually and with a merge
database.

There are articles that will give you an idea how it all works. The Publisher
2003 how-to articles are far superior to 2007 versions. There is a training
article.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/CH010504381033.aspx

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com




Thank you both so much! I downloaded a template from Microsoft and it looks almost identical to the out sourced one that I had created. I just couldn't get the pictures to go into the template properly. The right hand column pictures kept going to the left when I inserted them. I have a complete web page and I just wanted to cut and paste my information. I'm glad to see that there is a template and now I feel better about purchasing it. Thank you!

 

[ladiwolf]

=============================
The catalog you describe should be easy
enough to create in any version of Publisher.
Personally, I would just create a series
of text boxes and group them together...
8 in each column.

Please explain the problems you are
having with pictures.

Here are some tips that may help with
pictures.

1) When you are ready to import a picture...
click the "Picture Frame" button in your
Objects pane on the left of your screen.
When you choose "Picture from file"...
your pointer will change to a cross hair...
now...left click / drag a box the size you
want the picture to be in the location you
want it to appear. When you release the
mouse button, you will be able to browse
to the picture.

2) To replace an existing picture with a
different one...double left click the current
picture and the 'Insert Picture' window will
open so you can browse for a replacement.

3) Once you have a picture in the correct
position...Select it and the text box it's in
and group them together. Then if you happen
to move the text box...the picture will stay in
position.


--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk


Hi!

I downloaded the catalog. The first page was the first and last page of the
catalog and I put everything in. It was extremely difficult to put a picture
on the front cover, but I did it. Not sure how, but it happen. I went to the
second page where there were columns. I clicked on the picture they had,
deleted it, and than went to insert my picture. It immediately put the
picture in the column on the left. I couldn't move the picture after I click
on it. No matter what I did, it wouldn't move. I than tried to create a
test box and that moved it to that column but messed up the entire text. I
couldn't imagine doing that for every item so I gave up. I have an old
Publisher version, I wasn't sure if that was the problem. Again it was the
exact version I wanted. I thought I could just cut and paste from my web
site, but that doesn't seem to work. That is why I was hoping the new
version could do that for me. Can it? Or is that only in a perfect world!

 

[John Inzer]

I downloaded the catalog. The first page was the first and last page
of the catalog and I put everything in. It was extremely difficult
to put a picture on the front cover, but I did it. Not sure how, but
it happen. I went to the second page where there were columns. I
clicked on the picture they had, deleted it, and than went to insert
my picture. It immediately put the picture in the column on the
left. I couldn't move the picture after I click on it. No matter
what I did, it wouldn't move. I than tried to create a test box and
that moved it to that column but messed up the entire text. I
couldn't imagine doing that for every item so I gave up. I have an
old Publisher version, I wasn't sure if that was the problem. Again
it was the exact version I wanted. I thought I could just cut and
paste from my web site, but that doesn't seem to work. That is why I
was hoping the new version could do that for me. Can it? Or is that
only in a perfect world!

============================
It sounds like you need to spend some
time learning how to use the program.

Here's a good place to begin:

Creating a publication
http://tinyurl.com/32ew4l

Instead of deleting the default image
from the template...try double left clicking
the image. This should open the Insert
Picture window which would allow you
to browse to a replacement image.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Mary Sauer]

Right-click the picture, click change picture. Pasting from a web site is not a
good idea, you will get low resolution images most of the time. If you must
paste, select the picture in the catalog then paste, the paste will replace the
picture you selected. Publisher 2000 catalog is the same as a booklet.

Help here
http://web.archive.org/web/20000818153841/microsoft.com/enable/products/docs/publisher2000.htm
http://www.bcschools.net/staff/PublisherHelp.htm


The catalog feature in 2003-07 is nothing like 2000. It is merge based.

 

[Charlotte]

Hello: I have been trying for DAYS to create a catalog in Publisher. I have
tried to create a table, I have tried several things, but the pictures will
not all stay the exact same size. I have about 9 pages of the catalog that is
just going to be pictures (like a photo album) It will be 3 across and 6
down. I made all of the pictures the exact same size in a photo editing
program, but when I pull them into Publisher, they are all different sizes.
How is the best way to bring in 9 pages of photos EXACTLY the same size. I
cannot use the merge because I have no text or anything else that I am
merging - it's just graphics - nothing else! ANY HELP WOULD BE MOST
APPRECIATED AS I AM NEARING MY DEADLINE FOR THE COMPLETION OF THIS CATALOG
AND I CANNOT GET IT COMPLETE. THANK YOU!

 

[Mary Sauer]

What version Publisher? Are you using a merge for the pictures?

If you are doing all of this manually, use a table. With your cursor in the
cell, fill, fill effects, picture tab...

 

[Charlotte]

I have NOTHING to merge. This is just 9 pages of pictures that I want all the
exact same size.

 

[Ed Bennett]

I have NOTHING to merge. This is just 9 pages of pictures that I want all the
exact same size.

If the pictures are already in Publisher, the simplest solution would be
to write a macro to resize all of them (unless you were to delete and
start over).

If the pictures haven't yet been imported, then it would be easiest,
even though you don't have data to merge, to set up a merge just to get
them imported uniformly. Create a list of the filenames of all the
images you want to import, create a Catalog Merge Area with just a
single image based on the one field in your "database" (list), and merge
to a new publication.

 

[Charlotte]

Okay, I have played around with this and it seems the easiest thing for me to
do is to delete the pictures out and do the merge. I have just ONE more
question. I have 148 pictures. Do I have to insert each hyperlink
individually in the source document? Or is there an easier way to do that?
Sorry for so many questions but I am VERY new to this and I have not worked
with Publisher very much. Thanks for any help.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Okay, I have played around with this and it seems the easiest thing for me to
do is to delete the pictures out and do the merge. I have just ONE more
question. I have 148 pictures. Do I have to insert each hyperlink
individually in the source document? Or is there an easier way to do that?
Sorry for so many questions but I am VERY new to this and I have not worked
with Publisher very much. Thanks for any help.

It doesn't have to be an active hyperlink, just the image filename with
path.

To generate the list, try this program
http://home.a03.itscom.net/tsuzu/programing/en/