Please, PLEASE add the ability to add PMS spot colors to Word.

[OboroGuy34]

Every day people use word to give to commercial printing companys to have to
piece together. One of the downfalls of word is the ability to produce spot
colors. When a .pdf file made from a 80-page word document has to be opened
in Adobe Illustrator (page by page), recolored, resaved and re-pieced
together, it is a waste of our time and, to me, makes microsoft really like
the lower end of the software world. Even Microsoft Publisher has been
improved some.

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[Jezebel]

So why are you farting around with Word, given that it won't do what it's
not designed to do?

 

[Jay Freedman]

I have to come to the defense of OroboroGuy, the original poster. If you
read his preceding post that I answered, you'll see that his company *is* a
commercial printing service. His problem is that his customers hand him Word
files and expect him to make spot color separations from them. He's in a bad
situation, because he can't reasonably hand the file back to the customer
and say "start over and do it right", but Word doesn't have the tools to let
him do the job without expensive manual work.

I don't have experience as a commercial printer to be able to suggest a
better method. Maybe some of our other readers do. I know that MVP Klaus
Linke works for a printing firm, and he might have a suggestion.

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Jay Freedman
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[CyberTaz]

Thanks for pointing that out, Jay - I didn't see the other post until
somewhat later. Like you, I sympathize with his plight - to a certain
extent.

However, I have seen a number of commercial concerns seize upon such
situations as a 'value-added' opportunity to provide education, training &
consultative service to their clientele. In the majority of cases it not
only produces additional *immediate* revenue, but also helps solidify an
ongoing relationship that's more profitable for both parties. And in *all*
cases it has been a far more productive approach than simply whining about
the software not having features it has never been intended to include. The
unfortunate fact is that even if Word *did* have the features he wants to
see the odds are that without proper use by his clients the extent of
reworking on his end would be virtually the same... he'd just be able to do
it in Word

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

CyberTaz wrote:
[..]

The
unfortunate fact is that even if Word *did* have the features he wants to
see the odds are that without proper use by his clients the extent of
reworking on his end would be virtually the same... he'd just be able to do
it in Word

Good point!
Robert

 

[CyberTaz]

CyberTaz wrote:
[..]

The
unfortunate fact is that even if Word *did* have the features he wants to
see the odds are that without proper use by his clients the extent of
reworking on his end would be virtually the same... he'd just be able to do
it in Word

Good point!
Robert

<blush>
Thank you, kind Sir!... I surprise even myself on occasion )

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac