Shifting text boxes

[jmgetz]

I currently creating a course manual for students in Publisher. I have
designed a template where I have left an outside margin for notes etc on both
pages, and thus my main text box only covers 2/3 of the page.

My problem is when the text boxes shifting around everytime I insert a page
into the document - the whole document obviously gets shifted around. Is
there any way where the text boxes can shift with the changing template or do
I have to move them all manually in an 80 page plus document....

The only other solution was to keep adding 2 pages, but I don't always have
enough content for 2 pages. Any other suggestions?

 

[Mary Sauer]

Are you linking the text boxes so the text flows?
How are you setting up the booklet; are you setting your margins to reflect the one
third blank space? You can click "Duplicate all objects on page x", then delete the
new text boxes; the others will remain in place.

 

[jmgetz]

No I am not linking the text boxes. And as per your suggestion I did set the
margins according to the size of my text boxes and that did not seem to help
or make much difference to the postition of the text boxes. I also
duplicated all objects on a page - yet when I try this, it is duplicating
only the one page, thus the text box is duplicated in the same place on both
pages when what I want is the mirrored image of that. If I had an option to
duplicate 2 pages at once this may solve my problem, but obviously this does
look like an option. Do you have any other suggestions or should I give up
the idea of having a side bar on the outer edges of my page? Is theer not a
way to lock them down because I am really getting discouraged.....

I apprecaite any other suggestions or help you can give me. Thanks so much!

 

[Mary Sauer]

Use the Master Page. If you are using Publisher 2003 you can create any number of
Master Pages and apply it to any page. You maybe better off viewing one page rather
than a two page spread. The copy/paste will be in the correct place.