Newsletter question

[Joy]

Someone in an organization I belong to has taken over doing our group's
newsletter and is using Publisher. I'm not familiar with it, but my "job"
is proofreading her work for grammar and spelling. The particular question
I have for this NG (I just subscribed) has to do with columns. The previous
editor had the name of the group all the way across the page at the top.
Likewise the name (and description) of the speaker for our meeting. This
new editor has the speaker's description in two of four columns on the left
with other information in two right hand columns. Doing the speaker info
this way, with two narrow columns (instead of across the page) necessitates
too many hypnenated words. As I said, I'm not familiar with Publisher
(although I just discovered I have it in me MS Office 2003), but taking a
quick look I can't see any way in that program to have other than 4 columns.
Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Could be the original newsletter person used a table. He/she could have merged
the first cells... A text box can have any number of columns. Hyphenation can be
turned off in tools, options, edit tab.
I'm really not sure what you are asking. A separate text box may have been used
originally for the speaker information.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Joy -

What kind of an organization is it? I'm the region editor for our
organization. Always nice to talk to other editors.

 

[Joy]

JoAnn,

I'm not the editor, just the proofreader. <S> It's a chapter (in FL) of
the International Assoc. of Cancer Victors & Friends. Basically we try to
educate people (through speakers and books) about alternative treatments for
cancer and other degenerative diseases.

Joy

Joy -

What kind of an organization is it? I'm the region editor for our
organization. Always nice to talk to other editors.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Someone in an organization I belong to has taken over doing our group's
newsletter and is using Publisher. I'm not familiar with it, but my
"job" is proofreading her work for grammar and spelling. The particular
question I have for this NG (I just subscribed) has to do with columns.
The previous editor had the name of the group all the way across the page
at the top. Likewise the name (and description) of the speaker for our
meeting. This new editor has the speaker's description in two of four
columns on the left with other information in two right hand columns.
Doing the speaker info this way, with two narrow columns (instead of
across the page) necessitates too many hypnenated words. As I said, I'm
not familiar with Publisher (although I just discovered I have it in me
MS Office 2003), but taking a quick look I can't see any way in that
program to have other than 4 columns. Any help will be greatly
appreciated! Thanks.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

<shudder!> Tough job!! I have two of my fellow board members who proof for
me. I do what I can but sometimes I'm focusing more on the layout than I am
the content. Kind of like not seeing the knot in the tree for the location
of the forest.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

JoAnn,

I'm not the editor, just the proofreader. <S> It's a chapter (in FL) of
the International Assoc. of Cancer Victors & Friends. Basically we try
to educate people (through speakers and books) about alternative
treatments for cancer and other degenerative diseases.

Joy

Joy -

What kind of an organization is it? I'm the region editor for our
organization. Always nice to talk to other editors.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Someone in an organization I belong to has taken over doing our group's
newsletter and is using Publisher. I'm not familiar with it, but my
"job" is proofreading her work for grammar and spelling. The
particular question I have for this NG (I just subscribed) has to do
with columns. The previous editor had the name of the group all the way
across the page at the top. Likewise the name (and description) of the
speaker for our meeting. This new editor has the speaker's description
in two of four columns on the left with other information in two right
hand columns. Doing the speaker info this way, with two narrow columns
(instead of across the page) necessitates too many hypnenated words. As
I said, I'm not familiar with Publisher (although I just discovered I
have it in me MS Office 2003), but taking a quick look I can't see any
way in that program to have other than 4 columns. Any help will be
greatly appreciated! Thanks.