editing frustrations in pulication view( HELP!)

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Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel What im trying to do is design a template where every single page has the same layout, so i can just go through and fill out the info in the appropriate places. In publication view, under master page, i got it all set up. When I go back to what i considered was regular view to start filling in what i need i face a few troubles. For one the header foot window thing shows up and wont go away unless i click the X, but then that grays EVERYTHING out and I cannot work on my document. so i click around to make it pop back up, and i ignore as I start working on the first page. But when i insert a second page, it contains all the information I just entered on the previous page. Erasing it from there just erases it from the first page. I am no longer in publication view when making these changes! Why is it acting like I am editing the master page???!1

 

[John McGhie]

Because you are

A "Master Page" is, in fact, the header of that section of the document. It
is not a "separate page", it's the header of the current page.

You may be better off storing what you want as a Document Part, but that
mechanism is not exposed in Mac Word, you would need to use Word 2007 if you
wanted to do that.

I expect Document Parts will re-appear in Word 2010 on the Mac.

Cheers

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
What im trying to do is design a template where every single page has the same
layout, so i can just go through and fill out the info in the appropriate
places. In publication view, under master page, i got it all set up. When I go
back to what i considered was regular view to start filling in what i need i
face a few troubles. For one the header foot window thing shows up and wont go
away unless i click the X, but then that grays EVERYTHING out and I cannot
work on my document. so i click around to make it pop back up, and i ignore as
I start working on the first page. But when i insert a second page, it
contains all the information I just entered on the previous page. Erasing it
from there just erases it from the first page. I am no longer in publication
view when making these changes! Why is it acting like I am editing the master
page???!1

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McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
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Thank you for the reply but that still doesnt help me out really. I thought that the master page was what would appear on every page and once i got it setup I could work on my document as normal- everypage being setup exactly the same. How do I get out of master page edit mode? I though I was doing that by going to print layout view.

 

[CyberTaz]

First & Foremost: Word's Publishing Layout View is *not* the equivalent of a
desktop publishing program... Regardless of how much the MS marketing
department would like us to believe it is. You're still dealing with Word's
flow-based structure "under the hood", in which there are no 'pages'. The
"Master Pages" are actually just a visualization of Headers & Footers.

The net result is that there is a Master Page for each page of your
document. If you don't make any change to the Master for page B it will use
the same master as page A. If you do change the master for page B it will be
used for page C unless you change page C's master *after* it has been
created... And so on throughout the document (aka: running header/footer).

If you modify a Master Page Word changes the type of Section Break that
created it. That's the equivalent of removing the "Link to Previous" check
for Headers & Footers and specifying L/R Facing Pages. You cannot base a new
page on a pre-existing master of your choice such as you can in InDesign,
PageMaker, QuarkXPress... Even MS Publisher on the PC.

IMHO, Publishing Layout View is a superficial feature which does a
reasonably nice job for someone with very simple needs and/or has little
understanding of or concern for how the program works. For anything beyond
that a true page layout program -- even a cheap one -- is the way to go. It
is, in fact, just another *view* of the Word document, however.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

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ok thank you for that reply. So are you saying I cant do what i thought master pge would let me do? For example I wanted master page to simply contain a few text boxes which would appear on every page, so that each page i could quickly put in the approriate information for each box. So you are saying that I cannot do that? I know there is a way to do that, theres gotta be!

 

[John McGhie]

Yes, that's what he is saying.

Yes, there is a way to do what you want, but Master Pages is NOT that way:
it will NOT do what you want.

In the Word Help, look for the topic "Have Word complete your typing"

That gives you a basic description of how to use AutoText, and it is
AutoText that you need to use for this, not Master Pages.

Hope this helps

ok thank you for that reply. So are you saying I cant do what i thought master
pge would let me do? For example I wanted master page to simply contain a few
text boxes which would appear on every page, so that each page i could quickly
put in the approriate information for each box. So you are saying that I
cannot do that? I know there is a way to do that, theres gotta be!

--

The email below is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
matters unless I ask you to; or unless you intend to pay!

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]