Templates for a yearbook

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D.M.Gray - 30 Jul 2006 02:03 GMT

My friend and I have gotten ourselves volunteered to do the yearbook for this
past year for the elementary and middle school. The photograpghers that took
the school pictures sold us on digital photos. We assumed that a template
would come with the pictures - we were wrong. We have to use Publisher and
we are not familiar with it. Is there already a template made for rows and
columns to place pictures of the kids? We have about 1000 children to place
in this template grouped according to grade and teacher. If there is already
one, how can I get and if not -how can I make one and reproduce it for about
75 pages. Please help.

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Chuck Davis - 30 Jul 2006 02:12 GMT

> My friend and I have gotten ourselves volunteered to do the yearbook for
> this
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> about
> 75 pages. Please help.

Google returned 166 pages for "yearbook template"

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Ed Bennett - 30 Jul 2006 11:06 GMT

> We have to use Publisher and
> we are not familiar with it. Is there already a template made for rows and
> columns to place pictures of the kids? We have about 1000 children to place
> in this template grouped according to grade and teacher. If there is already
> one, how can I get and if not -how can I make one and reproduce it for about
> 75 pages.

You can use the Catalog Merge for this. You'll have to set up a database
(using Access or Excel) with the name of each child, the path to the
photograph, the child's grade and teacher. Then use the Catalog Merge to
set up how you want a single child to look, and connect it to the
database (sorted by Grade and Teacher). Publisher should then
automatically create 1000 copies of this with a different child in each
one. Look up Catalog Merge in the Help files to find out more detail
about how to merge.

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Rob Giordano (Crash) - 30 Jul 2006 16:15 GMT

...also, you may want to download IrFanview which will aid you in
resizing/renaming all the images in batch mode.. it will make your life
easier.

| My friend and I have gotten ourselves volunteered to do the yearbook for this
| past year for the elementary and middle school. The photograpghers that took
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| one, how can I get and if not -how can I make one and reproduce it for about
| 75 pages. Please help.

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