Templates/booklets

[Matt0686]

Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Before it could no longer work on my newer Macintosh I used a flat database application to produce booklets I could carry with me that showed addresses, birthdays, phone numbers, etc. I would like to be able to create a booklet with pages laid out properly without having to create one long column and cutting it and pasting it (manually) into a booklet, then photocopying the resulting pages and then assembling them. Is there a template out there that automatically paginates multi-column pages for a booklet?

 

[John McGhie]

Mac Word cannot (yet!) produce booklets automatically: the next version will
have VBA back, so it will be practical to add the ability. There is already
a macro to do it, but Word 2004 can't run the macro because its VBA is too
old.

That said, the manual way of doing it is quite straightforward and can be
done easily on a Mac.

One method is here:
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/BookletsCut.html

Another is here:
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/BookletsFold.html

Hope this helps

Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
Before it could no longer work on my newer Macintosh I used a flat database
application to produce booklets I could carry with me that showed addresses,
birthdays, phone numbers, etc. I would like to be able to create a booklet
with pages laid out properly without having to create one long column and
cutting it and pasting it (manually) into a booklet, then photocopying the
resulting pages and then assembling them. Is there a template out there that
automatically paginates multi-column pages for a booklet?

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matters unless you intend to pay!

 

[Matt0686]

Thank you for your answer. It looks like it might be the second choice that gets closer to what I need. I did not make it clear enough earlier-and I should probably get an iPhone or iPod Touch and just update my address book and synchronize, but I'm still waiting for a Verizon compatible iPhone-but this little booklet, which when closed measured about 3.5 inches x 4.5 inches had two columns on each page. It came out of the printer almost ready to use. I can't understand why MyDataBase didn't stick around to be part of the newer Apple designs and the beginning of the second Apple revolution.

Thanks for your help.

Matt

 

[Matt0686]

I just saw this message when trying to download CocoaBooklet:

"Snow Leopard compatibility:

Without warning, Apple has completely removed all the Cocoa-Java components in Snow Leopard. Since all of my applications rely heavily on Cocoa-Java and Java, they will all require a complete rewrite to work with Snow Leopard.

Since developing software applications is a hobby and since I have a full time job to pay the bills, I cannot spend my whole time working on rewriting my applications.

Therefore, I cannot make any promise for a new release date, but I will do my best.

UPDATE Oct. 8 2009: A first beta version of SmallImage is now available."

We will see. Thanks again.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Matt:

I can't understand why MyDataBase didn't stick around to be part of the newer
Apple designs and the beginning of the second Apple revolution.

Because Apple has been focussing on the user group that cannot understand
databases.

You have Excel, and if you become a little inventive you can print simple
booklets just fine from Excel and do most other database-style manipulations


Cheers

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