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MS Office Forum / Word / Page Layout / January 2005Page Layout Best Practices
We have been trying to get our heads around the best way to layout docs for templates such as case studies, newsletters, etc. We cannot effectively use illustrator for everything. :\ We figured out that drawing canvases help somewhat, but really feel a little lost with some formatting issues. Before i go into questions, are there resources that i can send my designers to so they can get a handle on this? A site called "Word for Illustrator users" would be cool. :) Thanks! Hi BAndrews, Word wasn't really meant to do this kind of thing; Publisher or Page Maker are more what you'd need, I'd think. The only book I've seen that might help you would be "Microsoft Office Document Designer" by Stephanie Krieger, from MS Press. It has a lot of ideas on how single pages can be set up for display (resembling PowerPoint slides, for example) and comes with a CD with sample pages and tools. > We have been trying to get our heads around the best way to layout docs for > templates such as case studies, newsletters, etc. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > to so they can get a handle on this? A site called "Word for Illustrator > users" would be cool. :) Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Alas, I have just bought this book and find that it is for PC Microsoft Office only - at least the CD is. I use Office 2004 on a Mac I haven¹t opened the CD yet, so can anyone tell me if the templates etc. are available separately on the CD rather than within the installable MODD? I¹d be able to open up templates on a Mac, but not use an .exe (if the MODD app is an .exe) Thanks for any help Oz On 8/1/05 10:31, in article VA.0000a564.00541719@speedy, "Cindy M -WordMVP-" <C.Meister-C@hispeed.ch> wrote: > Hi BAndrews, > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or > reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Hi Oz, > I haven¹t opened the CD yet, so can anyone tell me if the templates etc. are > available separately on the CD rather than within the installable MODD? I¹d > be able to open up templates on a Mac, but not use an .exe (if the MODD app > is an .exe) As far as I can tell, the tools for Word are all contained in templates. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) So I opened the CD following this advice only to find that installing the templates is via an .exe therefore they are utterly unusable by me or anyone using a Mac. On 12/1/05 12:42, in article VA.0000a5b7.003f00b9@speedy, "Cindy M -WordMVP-" <C.Meister-C@hispeed.ch> wrote: > Hi Oz, > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or > reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Hi Oz, Your original post: <<> I haven¹t opened the CD yet, so can anyone tell me if the templates etc. are > available separately on the CD rather than within the installable MODD? I¹d > be able to open up templates on a Mac, but not use an .exe (if the MODD app > is an .exe) As far as I can tell, the tools for Word are all contained in templates.>> > So I opened the CD following this advice only to find that installing the > templates is via an .exe therefore they are utterly unusable by me or anyone > using a Mac. It wasn't advice; it was a statement of fact: the tools are contained in templates. I'm sorry, if I misunderstood your question. I read it to mean whether the tools themselves were in templates, or as COM Addins. On reading it again, I see I misinterpreted what you were asking. Probably because I assumed, on reading the instructions in the book about installing the CD, that it was obvious the setup is an EXE (and that the tools were designed for WINWord), so no one could possibly be asking about that. That the addin tools are templates and not COM-Addins is NOT obvious from the text in the introductory chapter, however, so I opened *my* CD envelope to explicitly check on this fact for you. Perhaps you can "borrow" a colleague's PC to extract the templates. But it's not at all certain they'll run on a Mac because, from the text in the book, I assume they do a lot of writing to the Windows Registry. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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