Newsletter template

[Regi]

Hi:

I am using Word2003. I have downloaded few newsletter templates recently.
When I open it all contents are appearing in text boxes (including even page
numbers). Can sombody tell me why this is so?

Thanks, Regi

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Because you are trying to create a desktop publishing project with a word
processor. May I suggest you consider using Publisher? It's fantastic with
tasks like newsletters.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

 

[Johnbes]

I agree with JoAnn regarding Publisher. To jump start the process there are
a bunch of newsletters on Office.Microsoft.com you can download. Here's a
link
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/t...ryID=fM3BKyCD60&av=TPL000&sc=4&trc=100&stt=26.

Because you are trying to create a desktop publishing project with a word
processor. May I suggest you consider using Publisher? It's fantastic with
tasks like newsletters.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

Hi:

I am using Word2003. I have downloaded few newsletter templates recently.
When I open it all contents are appearing in text boxes (including even
page
numbers). Can sombody tell me why this is so?

Thanks, Regi

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Honestly, I don't understand why more people don't use Publisher. It's not a
terribly expensive product and creating newsletters, brochures, and the like
is a breeze. I've had to struggle with using things like Word at
work.....and I usually end up with something that I am less than proud to
call my own. And that's after a few colorful words (not WordArt).

--

JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

I agree with JoAnn regarding Publisher. To jump start the process there
are
a bunch of newsletters on Office.Microsoft.com you can download. Here's a
link
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/t...ryID=fM3BKyCD60&av=TPL000&sc=4&trc=100&stt=26.

Because you are trying to create a desktop publishing project with a word
processor. May I suggest you consider using Publisher? It's fantastic
with
tasks like newsletters.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

Hi:

I am using Word2003. I have downloaded few newsletter templates
recently.
When I open it all contents are appearing in text boxes (including even
page
numbers). Can sombody tell me why this is so?

Thanks, Regi

 

[Fibromightseattleite]

Honestly, I don't understand why more people don't use Publisher.

Actually, I'll tell you why I don't. I sent out a quarterly newsletter for
a Fibromyalgia support group via email. I've tried doing it using Publisher,
and I've had dismal results. Many of the people on my email list have very
old computers who respond to me and tell me that they can't read the document
that I send them prepared with Publisher, which I then have to send them
reformatted as a .txt doc. It's just easier for me to do it as a Word doc
and then 99% of them are able to read it. I still can't use all the bells
and whistles I would like to for desktop publishing, but at least it's
legible.

 

[Mary Sauer]

You need to learn how to print a PDF, almost everyone has the free Acrobat
Reader. There are free PDF converters around, do an Internet search.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=free+pdf+converter

There is an Office add-in if you are using 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...11-3E7E-4AE6-B059-A2E79ED87041&displaylang=en

 

[Fibromightseattleite]

Not the people in my group. Most of their machines are so ancient that they
won't run Adobe. I also have people in my group who just have email reading
machines, not PCs or Macs. They are seriously NOT tech savvy. I've tried
sending things out as PDFs and that caused more trouble than it was worth.

One month I tried sending the newsletter out in four different formats to
see which worked the best, Publisher, PDF, Word doc or .txt, and the Word doc
got the most votes/comments. So that's what I've stuck with. The .txt is
hard to read, so preparing it as a Word doc seems to work best. Just my
experience.

 

[Mary Sauer]

It seems to me if you have folks who are challenged by PDF attachments you would
worry about their opening attachments period.

Messages sent via Word are rife with virus if macros are involved. Your messages
maybe safe however if your group is not tech savvy then you can bet they are
plagued with virus and Trojan horses from other attachments they have opened.

 

[Fibromightseattleite]

I guess I wasn't clear enough. I type the document in Word and then paste it
into Outlook as an email. It maintains the formatting of the Word document,
but looks like a newsletter. It can be as long as I need it to be, but as
professional as I want it to be. It's readable by almost (and therein lies
the rub) all of the people on my list. For the one or two who write and tell
me they didn't get it, I reformat it as a .txt doc and resend it. Still a
pain, but not as much a pain as just sending it to 150+ people as a .txt doc.
Especially when it's 6-8 or more pages long. (Yes, I that's a long email,
but this is a quarterly newsletter, and no I can't send it out more often.
It's a chronic pain issue and involves how often I'm able to muster the
energy to sit at the computer and compile the document).