Re: Place word document content that is outside of print area

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From: Mary Sauer (gsauer_at_mycolumbus.rr.com)
Date: 08/18/04


Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 04:22:59 -0400

What is preventing your setting the margins to zero in page layout? You will get a
dialog, but you can click ignore.

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"timtak" <timtak@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:DABE2238-95EF-4785-838E-C044363492D0@microsoft.com...
> yes, I think that if I did the layout again, I would be able to succeed where
> Word failed. (But then again, if I were going to do it all again, I would use
> InDesign as opposed to Publisher.)
>
> I have done the layout in word, I just want to add some page numbers
> and stuff in the margins of every page.
>
> So I would still like to know how to place word documents to the edges
> of the page.
>
> Timothy
>
>
>
> "Mary Sauer" wrote:
>
>> Publisher does not suffer the dreaded jumping image syndrome.
>> On the toolbar, arrange, click layout guides, set on the margins to all to zero.
>>
>> Create a text box in Publisher, on the toolbar, insert, page, create another text 
>> box
>> on this page too, on page one, select the text box, click the "connect text 
>> frames"
>> and connect the two text boxes. Highlight all the text in your Word document, copy
>> and paste into the first text box in Publisher. Publisher will automatically 
>> create
>> pages and text boxes for any over flow.
>> Now insert your images, bring them to the front, the text will flow around them. 
>> You
>> can make your text boxes transparent, ctrl+t...
>>
>> -- 
>> Mary Sauer MS MVP
>> http://office.microsoft.com/
>> http://www.mvps.org/msauer/
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>> "timtak" <timtak@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:85B591CC-1C17-4E3D-B6D0-E8A2CF206983@microsoft.com...
>> > By the way, I will be sending my stuff to a publisher that will be using a
>> > "tonbo" in Japanese ( I don't know how to say it in English) which is a spare
>> > area of page around my manuscript that is cut off afterwards. Thus he can
>> > print right to the edge
>> > of the page.
>> >
>> > However, as I have just posted elsewhere I find that when I place a
>> > word document into a publisher document, the unprintable part of my word
>> > document is not placed into the publisher document, even if I move that word
>> > document into the center of a large page. It is as if the word document comes
>> > as a bit map produced by my printer driver. But that is not the case.
>> >
>> > Or at least that is why I think I am not seeing the edges of the word document
>> > that  I am placing.
>>
>>
>> 


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