Re: "Best" approach to create an INSTRUCTION manual? (Sheets? Pages ? Text Box?)

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I'd like to know too. What will the manual be instructing? It seems it is going
to be tiny. Take a look at this product:
http://www.pocketmod.com/ It is small and only uses one piece of letter paper.

I have a PDF on my web site for how to do it in Publisher.
http://msauer.mvps.org/publisher_projects2.htm

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"Rob Giordano (Crash)" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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ok I'm curious now...what is it exactly?
how you gonna fold it?



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On Feb 7, 5:13 pm, Alarm...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Feb 7, 2:56 pm, "Rob Giordano \(Crash\)"





<webmas...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sounds like he's over-thinking a booklet...or how a commercial press
person
may lay it out?

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"Mary Sauer" <mary-sa...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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| First of all, you probably cannot find standard stock in the size you
have
| quoted. Have you actually tried to fold something like this?
|
| Have you thought about a booklet setup?
|
| When you have a setup as you described you are better off using the
Arrange
| menu, Layout guides. It is so simple entering 6 columns, 4 rows in the
grid
| guide.
|
| Let us know exactly how you plan to present this manual. If you are
planning to
| cut, fold and staple the manual, it would become too thick to do
properly
| because of its small size.
|
| Maybe I'm thick, I just can't get a handle on the end product.
|
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| Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
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|news:ca2d315d-059d-4cf9-8c42-f2153003931e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > Hello,
| >
| >
| >
| > Previously, I went thru the MS Publisher online tutorial, but was
| > still left with questions.
| >
| >
| > I examined a stack of manuals to find something close to what I
would
| > like, and (hopefully) a standard paper size. It is 21 7/8" wide x 14
| > 7/8" high, with 1/4" margins. It is folded six times along the
| > width, and four times along the height, so there are what I will
call
| > 24 "sections".
| >
| > I have 24 images and need to provide a description below each pic.
| > Ideally, each pic and description would be "linked" together in case
| > they need to be moved arounf the page.
| >
| > I created a page 21 7/8" wide x 14 7/8" high, with 1/4" margins. I
| > then calculated that in order to have 24 equal spaced sections in a
6
| > wide by 4 high matrix, the size of each section would be 3.563" wide
x
| > 3.594" high. I then created a single text box with the 3.563" wide x
| > 3.594" high dimensions and copied/pasted 24 times.
| >
| > Then I started placing an image into the top half of each section,
and
| > planned on adding the text below.
| >
| > As I am new to Publisher, I want to see if I am going in the right
| > direction with this before I invest a lot of time. I am wondering if
| > there is a "better" way of going about this.
| >
| > I also created a new file that was a single sheet with 24 pages, but
| > got confused and was not sure if that is the right direction
| > either......
| >
| >
| > I also have Photoshop, but it appears that Publisher is a much
better
| > tool for this task.
| >
| >
| > Thanks,
| >
| > Tim
|

Hi Mary and Rob,

Thanks for your responses. I am most likely over-thinking this
setup, because I have not used Publisher much.

I have "modeled" my instruction sheet after those from two different
products. Both used the same size sheet, so I assume it is somewhat
standard.

I will try the Arrange Menu , Layout Guides to see how it works.

Although one of the instruction sheets of this size was folded 4x6,
the package for my product is larger so I could easily get away with
folding 2x3. Thanks again -- Hide quoted text -

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The "Arrange Menu , Layout Guides" worked well - Thank-you!




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