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Mike Van Pelt
I've got a problem I'm trying to solve -- a weekly program
which is printed 8x14 landscape, meant to be folded in
thirds. The secretary who does this likes to use text
boxes, because of the fine control they give her over
the positioning of the six "pages".
It's printed as a two page document (or front and back)
in this order of sub pages:
page1: 2 3 4
page2: 5 6 1(cover)
I want to come up with some automatic process to turn this into
a web page. Saving the document as html is no good at all.
Even if I didn't mind the insanely wide page, text gets cropped
off on both sides. I could probably live with the pages being
out of order, but ideally, I'd like to arrange them
appropriately.
I tried doing the "record macro" thing, but when I'm recording
a macro, Word 2003 simply refuses to do a cut operation on
a text box, and I didn't get any further with that.
My ultimate goal is to have some single operation (call a
macro) which will reformat the page to web-appropriate format,
and upload it to the server.
Trying to train the secretary to format the doucment some other
way is something I'd like to avoid having to do, unless the
"other way" is something I can explain simply, in a way that
will cause her to say "Wow, that's so much easier than what I
was doing, and it works better." Format->Columns->3 columns,
my preference, doesn't give her the fine control over where
the blocks of text go that she really wants. I tried re-creating
her document in three columns with text blocks, in the hopes
that switching back to one column format would at least line
them up vertically rather than horizonally, but that didn't
work; the text blocks stay side-by-side.
Any ideas on how I might accomplish this?
which is printed 8x14 landscape, meant to be folded in
thirds. The secretary who does this likes to use text
boxes, because of the fine control they give her over
the positioning of the six "pages".
It's printed as a two page document (or front and back)
in this order of sub pages:
page1: 2 3 4
page2: 5 6 1(cover)
I want to come up with some automatic process to turn this into
a web page. Saving the document as html is no good at all.
Even if I didn't mind the insanely wide page, text gets cropped
off on both sides. I could probably live with the pages being
out of order, but ideally, I'd like to arrange them
appropriately.
I tried doing the "record macro" thing, but when I'm recording
a macro, Word 2003 simply refuses to do a cut operation on
a text box, and I didn't get any further with that.
My ultimate goal is to have some single operation (call a
macro) which will reformat the page to web-appropriate format,
and upload it to the server.
Trying to train the secretary to format the doucment some other
way is something I'd like to avoid having to do, unless the
"other way" is something I can explain simply, in a way that
will cause her to say "Wow, that's so much easier than what I
was doing, and it works better." Format->Columns->3 columns,
my preference, doesn't give her the fine control over where
the blocks of text go that she really wants. I tried re-creating
her document in three columns with text blocks, in the hopes
that switching back to one column format would at least line
them up vertically rather than horizonally, but that didn't
work; the text blocks stay side-by-side.
Any ideas on how I might accomplish this?