Hi Ed.,
Side note:
Is this really a thesis? As in, for an academic degree? It's more common,
with theses, to print the chapter title in the header. Theses also tend to
have specific formatting requirements, especially about margins, so make
sure this request doesn't contravene them before you put effort into it.
Arguably, a chapter title in the top right header would be easier for people
to use. People are quite accustomed to looking at the top right to navigate
dictionaries and phone books. When the edge is used, it is usually
accompanied by either cutouts on the page edge (e.g., in dictionaries), or
by solid color changes right up to the page edge, which is difficult to
accomplish in Word.
People are not, however, particularly accustomed to reading letters stacked
on top of each other, though you could probably do sideways text--which
again, demands a head tilt to read.
I just looked at the various magazines and phone books around my apt, and
don't see any of them using this style consistently. In short, I'm asking
"why bother?" I don't think this would be very difficult to do, but it
seems like a fancy visual trick that doesn't actually make life any easier
for the reader. If your aim is to allow easy navigation, I'm not sure this
is the best approach.
If you must do it, consider using chapter titles as well--seeing "chapter 5"
in the margin, again, does not really provide enough information to tell a
reader *this* is the place she wants (unless she already studied the TOC, in
which case it's easier for her to flip to the page number and ignore the
marginal text).
Re your original request--Investigate anchoring a frame or text box in the
header of each chapter, though I'm not very familiar with either and someone
else may suggest a better method. I'd experiment on a COPY of the document
until you get it all perfected.
On 10/9/06 9:05 AM, " wrote:
Hello,
I am formatting a document and want to add the chapter's name and the
page number in the margin, using Word 2003.
I want to do like in magazines, where you have the text in the middle
and the article's name in the margin (vertical text). Each chapter
would be at a different place, allowing easy navigation through the
text (like phone books)
Here's a quick example of what I want.
[ Article text ]
[ Article text ] c
[ Article text ] h
[ Article text ] a
[ Article text ] p
[ Article text ] t
[ Article text ] e
[ Article text ] r
[ Article text ]
[ Article text ] V
[ Article text ]
[ Article text ]
[ Article text ] p. 10
I don't want to go the publisher way, as the whole thesis is in word
and I don't want to start over.
Any idea?
Best,
Ed.
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