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Fish''s Mermaid - 30 Mar 2007 22:04 GMT

I will have a hundred grouped text boxes and photos in my project. Each group
will contain three or four text and photo boxes. These groups do not require
autoflow to other text boxes. However, I will need to rearrange them and edit
them in my publication. When I add a new group or move one I want the
remaining boxes to flow automatically from page to page. I new to publisher
and lost.

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Mary Sauer - 31 Mar 2007 19:37 GMT

Not quite sure what you are asking. If you have, say, three text boxes and a
couple of pictures grouped, there is no way for two of the text boxes to be on
one page and the rest of the group flow to the next page. The group will have to
be ungrouped and arranged manually.

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>I will have a hundred grouped text boxes and photos in my project. Each group
> will contain three or four text and photo boxes. These groups do not require
> autoflow to other text boxes. However, I will need to rearrange them and edit
> them in my publication. When I add a new group or move one I want the
> remaining boxes to flow automatically from page to page. I new to publisher
> and lost.

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Fish''s Mermaid - 31 Mar 2007 20:28 GMT

Maybe I can make my problem clearer. I want to create a hundred text boxes in
a publication. They will all be identical is size originally but will change
as editing takes place. In each of those text boxes I will be adding a photo
and text that will remain entirely in the original text box and not flow into
another text box. Each text box will be an independent group of text and
photo. I will expland each text box manually to accommodate this text when
editing is necessary. What I need to do is have these text boxes move from
page to page as the size of each text box changes. Hope this is clear. To
explain further, this is a High School reunion yearbook and I am receiving
photos and histories daily and if I wait to do this job manually at the last
minute I will not have to time to produce it. The idea is to have a text box
for each graduate with their name and photo in it and add other information
and photo(s) when it arrives and have the book expand as required. Some send
nothing and others send a book length history. If Publisher 2003 cannot do
this, can you recommend a program? Thanx, Terri

> Not quite sure what you are asking. If you have, say, three text boxes and a
> couple of pictures grouped, there is no way for two of the text boxes to be on
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> > remaining boxes to flow automatically from page to page. I new to publisher
> > and lost.

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Mary Sauer - 31 Mar 2007 21:46 GMT

Have you considered the catalog merge?
Catalog merge
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/CH010504381033.aspx

You can link text boxes, this would be the only way your text will keep on
flowing from page to page. Publisher is not setup to function the same way as
Word.

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> Maybe I can make my problem clearer. I want to create a hundred text boxes in
> a publication. They will all be identical is size originally but will change
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>> > remaining boxes to flow automatically from page to page. I new to publisher
>> > and lost.

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Fish''s Mermaid - 31 Mar 2007 23:36 GMT

Thanks, I'll try that.

> Have you considered the catalog merge?
> Catalog merge
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> >> > remaining boxes to flow automatically from page to page. I new to publisher
> >> > and lost.

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