Page Layout Best Practices

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BAndrews

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!
 
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Cindy M -WordMVP-

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.

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. :)
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Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Oz Springs

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
 
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Cindy M -WordMVP-

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)
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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

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Oz Springs

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.
 
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Cindy M -WordMVP-

Hi Oz,

Your original post:
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)
Click to expand...
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.
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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

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