Trying to get WYSIWYG layout

  • Thread starter Charles C. Perkins
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Charles C. Perkins

I need to create a program, and I usually use Adobe Pagemaker for this
type of layout, but I now need to use Word.

The problem with MS Word is that I cannot get exact placement of text
and graphics. Is there any way to do this in Word, or create it in
another document, like publisher and export to word, and have it save
the format?

Thanks in advance!

Chaz
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

It *is* possible to get exact placement of text and graphics in Word, but
you do need to know a bit about how Word works to do it. Though it can
usually be accomplished by judicious use of indents, tabs, Space
Before/After, etc., most novices use a lot of text boxes or Click and Type.
 
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Marcel

For example:

I use the { ADVANCE /y XXX } field to position text relative to the top
of the page.
can also be used to position relative to the column or frame in a
horizontal position using the /x switch.

I see a lot of use of paragraph markers in documents that are sent to
me to do this, but sooner or later this usually results in the relevant
paragraph spanning a page break.

Marcel
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