I have to print some names on ready-made certificates for our
university.
Is there a utility/add-on that would allow me to get right on the line
(or 1 or 2 mm above the line?)
I do have Office 2003 but wondered if there was a recommended app to use
or is easy to do in Office 2k3?
If I scanned the certificate, is there any way to make a "tracing" of it
appear in my document as a "background" and from there use the document
as a template so I can choose where the text box goes?
Thanks

Dear ©®,

You can insert the image of the certificate in the header. If you select it,
the Picture-toolbar appears. You can modify the colors of the picture in the
document with the 2nd to the 6th buttons.

From there on you can place a table in the main document that allows you to
align the text box.

My experience is that aligning with preprinted documents is a tricky job,
that consists of repeatingly printing, checking (measuring), and adjusting...
and what is right for printer 1, does not work for printer 2. I strongly
advise my customers (I've been building Word templates for over 10 years now)
not to us preprinted paper.

Success,
Cooz
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Thanks.

"©®" wrote:

I have to print some names on ready-made certificates for our
university.
Is there a utility/add-on that would allow me to get right on the line
(or 1 or 2 mm above the line?)
I do have Office 2003 but wondered if there was a recommended app to use
or is easy to do in Office 2k3?
If I scanned the certificate, is there any way to make a "tracing" of it
appear in my document as a "background" and from there use the document
as a template so I can choose where the text box goes?
Thanks

You could scan it and place it full size as a background image (properties
layout behind text) or simply measure and use paragraph formatting to
place the text where you want it.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


©® wrote:
I have to print some names on ready-made certificates for our
university.
Is there a utility/add-on that would allow me to get right on the line
(or 1 or 2 mm above the line?)
I do have Office 2003 but wondered if there was a recommended app to
use or is easy to do in Office 2k3?
If I scanned the certificate, is there any way to make a "tracing" of
it appear in my document as a "background" and from there use the
document as a template so I can choose where the text box goes?
Thanks