Re: Word should let me fit my document into a certain number of pages
From: Suzanne S. Barnhill (sbarnhill_at_mvps.org)
Date: 01/23/05
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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:19:45 -0600
This would be extremely processor-intensive for Word, which offers a lot
more formatting options than Excel. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/FitCopy.htm for some tips and tricks of
doing this manually.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Karen C. Frank" <Karen C. Frank@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D90EDDE2-EBBF-40C5-8CAA-25A095175A13@microsoft.com... > It would be really nice to have a "Fit to Pages..." command in Word that > would bring up a dialog where I could specify a number of pages (such as 5) > and click checkboxes to specify what can be adjusted: e.g., [] Font sizes, > [] Margins, [] Line spacing. Then Word would automatically adjust the > document content as needed to fit within the specified number of pages, while > leaving alone whatever is unchecked. If the user doesn't like the results, > she should be able to Undo and try again with a different combination of > scaling options. There should also be an option "[] Keep adjusting while I > edit" so that if I type more content, the existing content is adjusted as > needed so the document remains within the specified page limit. > There is already a somewhat similar feature to fit on a certain number > of pages when printing in Excel, and even Powerpoint has text boxes that > automatically adjust the font size of their content to fit on the slide. > This seems like a natural feature for Word, as many users are given > requirements that their document should fit on a certain number of pages.
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