M
marcelo - university of nebraska
First of all, as a graphic designer I absolutely despise Microsoft Office
when it comes to desktop publishing. I need to create a set of templates that
my office staff can use for smaller projects that do not require my hands on
them.
I had set to create word documents as templates with the right graphics and
so on and have the staff only open the document and change the text inside.
Well, little did I know that I was dumping myself into Microsoft HELL...
I managed to put my elements on the page, and use text boxes for extra
control over text placement, but the smart Office developers don't give an
option to center a text vertically inside a text box in Word (SMART, isn't
it?). So, since I didn't want my staff to keep moving the text box around
(which by the way, there's no way to lock down or move freely without
increments of .125 inch or so...), I had to drag all my word stuff into
publisher and utilize it for the centering text vertically within a text box.
Little did I know that HELL was getting hotter and hotter. Besides not being
able to lock the text boxes in place, when I saved stuff as templates, I had
to save it within Microsoft's template folder in my own computer, because if
I save it elsewhere, then they are not going to be templates (I MEAN THAT'S
INCREDIBLY RETARDED), how am I going to have my staff get access to the
templates if they are only templates when saved to my computer?
So, I had to educate everyone to do a save as instead of a regular save,
because if they just do a save, then what are supposed to be the templates
become their own individual document...
Man, tell me if I'm wrong, but why can't these extremely basic things not
have been thought of by the smart developers at Microsoft???
Hopefully I'll have some good answers to my problems from you guys, because
I'm not expecting more than just crap at this point.
Oh boy, I'm already covered in blisters with my 400th degree burns...
when it comes to desktop publishing. I need to create a set of templates that
my office staff can use for smaller projects that do not require my hands on
them.
I had set to create word documents as templates with the right graphics and
so on and have the staff only open the document and change the text inside.
Well, little did I know that I was dumping myself into Microsoft HELL...
I managed to put my elements on the page, and use text boxes for extra
control over text placement, but the smart Office developers don't give an
option to center a text vertically inside a text box in Word (SMART, isn't
it?). So, since I didn't want my staff to keep moving the text box around
(which by the way, there's no way to lock down or move freely without
increments of .125 inch or so...), I had to drag all my word stuff into
publisher and utilize it for the centering text vertically within a text box.
Little did I know that HELL was getting hotter and hotter. Besides not being
able to lock the text boxes in place, when I saved stuff as templates, I had
to save it within Microsoft's template folder in my own computer, because if
I save it elsewhere, then they are not going to be templates (I MEAN THAT'S
INCREDIBLY RETARDED), how am I going to have my staff get access to the
templates if they are only templates when saved to my computer?
So, I had to educate everyone to do a save as instead of a regular save,
because if they just do a save, then what are supposed to be the templates
become their own individual document...
Man, tell me if I'm wrong, but why can't these extremely basic things not
have been thought of by the smart developers at Microsoft???
Hopefully I'll have some good answers to my problems from you guys, because
I'm not expecting more than just crap at this point.
Oh boy, I'm already covered in blisters with my 400th degree burns...