Help a PageMaker user start to use Word 2002!

[Per Stromgren]

Hi!

I have used Adobe PageMaker to layout and print a small club news
booklet (typically 12 or 16 pages), but cannot for different reasons
go on using PageMaker. In looking for a replacement, I just realized
Word 2002, at my fingertips, has a nice booklet feature, which would
save me a lot of trouble. I know that Word is not page oriented layout
program per se, but that it could the job at hand if I just can learn
a bit more about some of the features. Where do you think I should
look for wisdom on Word when used as a PageMaker look-alike?

The features I have problem with is the following:

1. I have a a two-column layout throughout the booklet, except for
first and last page which have single columns. I have suceeded in
getting this, but I don't understand exactly how this works. I
sometimes gets a one-column layout in the whole document.

2. I have a sidebar with editors name, etc on the second page. I want
this text area to always stay in the lower half of the left column *at
all times* while wrapping text around it. Can I do this?

I will probably get into more trouble like these, and welcome all help
from anyone using Word in this application.

Per.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This won't be a complete answer, but here are a couple of tips:

1. Word uses section breaks to separate single- and multi-column sections.
If you inadvertently delete a section break, then the portion of the
document that preceded it will take on the formatting of the subsequent
section. The formatting for the final (or a single) section is held in the
last paragraph mark in the document.

2. You'll want to put your sidebar in a text box or frame. You can anchor
this to a specific position on the page, but be aware that it will also be
anchored to a paragraph, and if that paragraph moves to the next page, so
will the text box/frame. An approach that might work for you is to anchor
the text box/frame to the header (it can still be anywhere on the page). In
order to have it just on the first page, check the box for "Different first
page" on the Layout tab of Page Setup. This will give you a separate First
Page Header to which you can anchor the text box/frame. Since you want this
on the second page, insert a Next Page section break between pages 1 and 2
so that page 2 becomes the first page of Section 2 (actually, you probably
already have a section break since your first page is single-column and the
second page has two columns).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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[Per Stromgren]

This won't be a complete answer, but here are a couple of tips:

1. Word uses section breaks to separate single- and multi-column sections.
If you inadvertently delete a section break, then the portion of the
document that preceded it will take on the formatting of the subsequent
section. The formatting for the final (or a single) section is held in the
last paragraph mark in the document.

2. You'll want to put your sidebar in a text box or frame. You can anchor
this to a specific position on the page, but be aware that it will also be
anchored to a paragraph, and if that paragraph moves to the next page, so
will the text box/frame. An approach that might work for you is to anchor
the text box/frame to the header (it can still be anywhere on the page). In
order to have it just on the first page, check the box for "Different first
page" on the Layout tab of Page Setup. This will give you a separate First
Page Header to which you can anchor the text box/frame. Since you want this
on the second page, insert a Next Page section break between pages 1 and 2
so that page 2 becomes the first page of Section 2 (actually, you probably
already have a section break since your first page is single-column and the
second page has two columns).

Thanks a lot, Suzanne!

The trick about anchor a page two frame in a first page header
paragraph was not trivial, and is not to be found in the help files...

This is the kind of information I needed; it solved those problems
nicely. Could you by any chance rekommend a book that has this sort o
f technical information? The world is flooded with books about MS
Word, but most of them tell me only how to do things, not why, like
your answers did.

Per.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't know of any book that offers the same level of information as
www.mvps.org/word (or these NGs.).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.