Formatting a book layout...

[Paul_Law]

I am trying write a short user guide where the left hand page will contain
some 'content' whilst the right hand page will contain editorial comments on
that content.

The comments will be quite detailed in most instances so the 'comment'
feature in word is not appropriate.

I've tried using columns but they don't seem to be able to solve the problem
(when adding new 'content' the text 'wraps' meaning the rest of the document
becomed out of sync).

Using a table with 2 columns is an option but this is incredibly awkward as
each paragraph effectively needs to be in its own row.

Is there any other alternative that I have missed?

Many thanks in advance for your help!

 

[Mary Sauer]

It the comments and the content are on the same page use separate text boxes for
the comments and place them in the appropriate places.

 

[Paul_Law]

Thanks for the suggestion.

I'm really looking to have the text on a separate page. i.e. the even pages
will have the general text whilst the odd pages will have the comments (if
any).

Not sure if this is possible though?

P.

 

[Paul_Law]

I should also have made it clear in my initial post that, up to this point,
I've been trying to do this in Word (which I'm pretty familiar with). Having
reached a 'dead end' with Word, I was hoping that Publisher might have some
more layout options. I've got Publisher 2007 but this is the first time I've
had the chance to use it.

One possible way of doing it may be to write the entire 'content' using Word
and insert comments using the comment feature. Then, once the guide is
complete, paste the 'content' into Publisher and break up the document by
inserting a new blank page after every page of text. Then, I could extract
and paste the comments from the Word document into text boxes on these blank
pages. (thinking about it further, this could also be done in Word)

The problem with this, again, is that all it would take would be the
addition or removal of one line or paragraph and the whole user guide would
need to be reformatted. To put this in perspective, my estimate at the
moment is that this guide will be 250+ pages so this is not really practical.

Thanks,

Paul.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Sure it is possible. When you select booklet in page setup what you see on your
screen is in the correct order, for example page two is next to page three. So
put the content on page two and the comments on page three.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Paul, I think you ought to do some serious help reading. I know exactly what you
are trying to do, but to explain it here is nigh on impossible. Learn about text
box linking and how to use Word documents in conjunction with Publisher. The
most satisfactory way is not to import.

Publisher 2007 Help and How-to
http://officebeta.iponet.net/en-us/publisher/FX100649111033.aspx