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- 08 Jun 2004 06:09 GMT

Is there a way to divide a page into equal sections that
function as "separate pages" like in Word Perfect? I
know that I could create a table that is 2 x 2, but it
doesn't automatically expand the table into 4 equal
squares like Word Perfect would.

Thanks for your help.

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Jezebel - 08 Jun 2004 06:54 GMT

There was a detailed discussion of this just a week or so ago, in this or
one of the sibling forums. The general answer was: no there's no way to do
it 'the way WP does it', but there are alternative and convenient ways to do
the things for which the WP split window is used. What are you actually
trying to do?

> Is there a way to divide a page into equal sections that
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- 08 Jun 2004 07:46 GMT

Hi,

I am a teacher - and sometimes I want to create say 6 of
the same form - and I want to change font/margins/edit
etc. so that I can have 6 of the same thing that fits on
one page when I print. In Word ... I can see how much
space I have to do one, and then just copy it into the
other sections. In Word, it doesn't expand the box for
me?

J.

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Jezebel - 08 Jun 2004 08:47 GMT

Not sure what you mean by 'expanding the box'; but you can do multiple
content by a) creating a textbox that contains what you want, then copying
and aligning it; or b) using a table and duplicating the cell contents; or
c) using frames; or d) using your printer's multi-image facility if it has
one.

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 08 Jun 2004 13:30 GMT

> Is there a way to divide a page into equal sections that
> function as "separate pages" like in Word Perfect? I
> know that I could create a table that is 2 x 2, but it
> doesn't automatically expand the table into 4 equal
> squares like Word Perfect would.

I take it the height is the major factor? Generally, when
you insert a new table, it does expand to fill the space
between the margins?

Then what you're looking for is how to set an "exact" row
height. You'd find this in Table/Table Properties/Row. Just
select the entire table, then type in the row height. (You
have to work it out yourself, Word won't do this for you.)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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