Poster/Flyer design

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John

I want to create a Word template that the sales people at my Real Estate
office can use to publish descriptions and pictures of new listings. I am
doing it at the moment for each agent but I really want them to be able to
do it themselves.

The requirements are that each agent be able to produces a poster that has a
Standard look - ie the Company heading, 2 columns of text and 2 or 3 photos
of same size down one edge.

My problem is trying to produce a template that has the text boxes (for the
pictures) that will remain fixed ie I don't want the users to be able to
move or re-size the text boxes.

Can Word do this or do I need to use something like Publisher

Thanks

JB
 
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Graham Mayor

Don't use text boxes for this, use a table.
Set your company heading etc in the page header and/or footer.
Put a three row x two column table on the page
Drag the bottom border of the bottom row down to the bottom of the page.
This gives you two huge cells and four narrow ones.
From the menu - Table > select > table
Table > autofit > distribute rows evenly.
You will now have six large cells.
Table > select table
Table > autofit > fixed colum width.
Format the table cells to remove any borders you don't want on the printed
result (probably all of them).
Save as a template.

You now have a template from which you can create documents. You can put
pictures in the left cells and they will adapt to the width of those cells.
You can put text in the right cells. From the last cell press tab to give
another identical row.

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John

Thanks very much your instructions worked perfectly - I was able to do
everything as you described.

One other question I have - is it possible to lock the contents of a cell so
that the data already in it (from the Template) cannot be altered or deleted
?

JB
Lower Hutt
NZ
 
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Graham Mayor

John said:
Thanks very much your instructions worked perfectly - I was able to do
everything as you described.

One other question I have - is it possible to lock the contents of a
cell so that the data already in it (from the Template) cannot be
altered or deleted ?

JB
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No. This is not possible. If you want to produce a viewable file that the
viewer cannot alter, you need Adobe Acrobat or one of its cheaper clones.
There are some options available via the favourites page on my web site.

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Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word
 
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