Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us
Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network
Home
DiscussionsAccessExcelInfoPathOutlookPowerPointPublisherWord
DirectoryUser Groups
Related Topics
Outlook ExpressInternet ExplorerWindowsMS Server ProductsMore Topics ...

MS Office Forum / Word / Long Documents / August 2005

Tip: Looking for answers? Try searching our database.

print table columns on facing pages

Thread view: 
Enable EMail Alerts  Start New Thread
Thread rating: 
Marjorie - 17 Jul 2005 15:48 GMT
Hi !
I have a single document, containing a table with two columns and
several rows. On the left column is an english novel, and on the right
column its translation in another language. Each paragraph is in a
different row, so that the original text and its translation are
perfectly aligned. All this is spiced by the presence of footnotes
attached to the text in the left column !
My problem is that I would like to split my table on two facing pages
(left column on the left page, right on the right page). Is it possible
with Word, maybe with a little help from macros and VB ?
Thanks !
Marjorie
Suzanne S. Barnhill - 17 Jul 2005 16:12 GMT
It's not something I'd attempt. I can think of two ways to do it, neither of
them really satisfactory and both every labor-intensive, especially if you
want to preserve the equal row height of the two languages so that the
paragraphs are parallel.

A third possibility, equally labor-intensive but with at least some hope of
success, would be to split the table into page-size chunks and repeat each
chunk on the following (facing) page. Set each column to the margin width
and make the even-page table chunks left-aligned and the odd-page tables
right-aligned. Then select all the text on each page that falls outside the
margins and format it as Font Color: White. This assumes that your table has
no borders (which will print even if the text is invisible). You need the
text to be White rather than Hidden to preserve the row height.

It's possible that the text could be formatted in such a way that it would
sense whether it was on an odd or even page and be White or Auto
accordingly, but that would probably require some VBA (or at least some
intensive work with fields). Something similar could perhaps be done for the
table alignment. But I suspect you'd need very sophisticated VBA to break
the text up into page-sized chunks and repeat them on the next page.

Signature

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

> Hi !
> I have a single document, containing a table with two columns and
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> Thanks !
> Marjorie
jay m - 22 Jul 2005 21:40 GMT
What happens if you set up the doc with a page size of the two facing
pages?
That would allow you to have a single table with two columns an a wide
gutter (or narrow column)between them.

I really don't know how you'd print the thing, but that might be
feasible...

cheers
Jay
CyberTaz - 06 Aug 2005 04:30 GMT
IMHO, you would be much better off doing something like this in a true Page
Layout program. Even Publisher would make for a simpler & more effective
approach.

The difference is that page layout programs actually work with physical
pages, whereas word processors deal with continuous text flow.

Good Luck |:>)

On 7/17/05 10:48 AM, in article 42DA6FCA.2090106@online.fr, "Marjorie"
<marjorie.burghart@online.fr> wrote:

> Hi !
> I have a single document, containing a table with two columns and
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> Thanks !
> Marjorie
 
Sign In
Join
My Latest Posts
My Monitored Threads
My Blog
My Photo Gallery
My Profile
My Homepage

Start New Thread
Enable EMail Alerts
Rate this Thread



©2008 Advenet LLC   Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.