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I want to prepare a document in which a Latin text is displayed on the left
hand page, and the English translation on the facing right hand page. the Latin text is about 5 pages long, and so is the translation. The translation should roughly line up with the original text. Is there a way to do this with Word? Any suggestions would be *Very* gratefully received! |
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There are others who will offer ways to force such a layout in Word, but
IMHO it would be far more practical to use a program such as Publisher. You could still do the Latin as a Word doc, do the translation as another, then insert each into a simple Publisher layout. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "DeeBee" wrote in message ... I want to prepare a document in which a Latin text is displayed on the left hand page, and the English translation on the facing right hand page. the Latin text is about 5 pages long, and so is the translation. The translation should roughly line up with the original text. Is there a way to do this with Word? Any suggestions would be *Very* gratefully received! |
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Agreed. This would also allow you to control the text flow from odd page to
odd page and even page to even page. -- 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. "CyberTaz" typegeneraltaz1ATcomcastdotnet wrote in message ... There are others who will offer ways to force such a layout in Word, but IMHO it would be far more practical to use a program such as Publisher. You could still do the Latin as a Word doc, do the translation as another, then insert each into a simple Publisher layout. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "DeeBee" wrote in message ... I want to prepare a document in which a Latin text is displayed on the left hand page, and the English translation on the facing right hand page. the Latin text is about 5 pages long, and so is the translation. The translation should roughly line up with the original text. Is there a way to do this with Word? Any suggestions would be *Very* gratefully received! |
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Two problems with that: (1) I don't think I have Publisher on my PC, and
more importantly, (b) I have to submit this article as a Word document. Even if I managed to get my hands on a PC with Publisher on it and set up the pages with it, would I be able to export it as a word document and still retain all the special pagination? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Agreed. This would also allow you to control the text flow from odd page to odd page and even page to even page. -- 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. "CyberTaz" typegeneraltaz1ATcomcastdotnet wrote in message ... There are others who will offer ways to force such a layout in Word, but IMHO it would be far more practical to use a program such as Publisher. You could still do the Latin as a Word doc, do the translation as another, then insert each into a simple Publisher layout. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "DeeBee" wrote in message ... I want to prepare a document in which a Latin text is displayed on the left hand page, and the English translation on the facing right hand page. the Latin text is about 5 pages long, and so is the translation. The translation should roughly line up with the original text. Is there a way to do this with Word? Any suggestions would be *Very* gratefully received! |
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"DeeBee" wrote in message ... Two problems with that: (1) I don't think I have Publisher on my PC, and more importantly, (b) I have to submit this article as a Word document. Even if I managed to get my hands on a PC with Publisher on it and set up the pages with it, would I be able to export it as a word document and still retain all the special pagination? In all probability, not with any satisfactory degree of success. With all due respect, whoever *requires* that this be done in a word processing program must have a severe sadistic streak If it *must* be done in Word I strongly recommend that you follow Suzanne's instructions in her first reply... & Good Luck! -- Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Agreed. This would also allow you to control the text flow from odd page to odd page and even page to even page. -- 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. "CyberTaz" typegeneraltaz1ATcomcastdotnet wrote in message ... There are others who will offer ways to force such a layout in Word, but IMHO it would be far more practical to use a program such as Publisher. You could still do the Latin as a Word doc, do the translation as another, then insert each into a simple Publisher layout. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "DeeBee" wrote in message ... I want to prepare a document in which a Latin text is displayed on the left hand page, and the English translation on the facing right hand page. the Latin text is about 5 pages long, and so is the translation. The translation should roughly line up with the original text. Is there a way to do this with Word? Any suggestions would be *Very* gratefully received! |
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There is no really satisfactory way to do this in Word, but for a text of
this length, a bit of handwork might give the results you want. You'll need to set this up so that each page contains a certain number of whole paragraphs of the corresponding language. Figure out, for any given page, which is longer, the Latin or the English, and establish page break points accordingly. For example, if four paragraphs of the Latin nearly fill a page, and the English translation will also fit on a page, then that is where you will have a page break. Once you've established your page break points: 1. Insert your first pageful of Latin, followed by the corresponding page of English. Repeat for each of the following pages. 2. If that's parallel enough for you, you can just insert page breaks and call it done. If you want the individual paragraphs to be parallel, select all the text and use Table | Convert | Text to Table, separating at Paragraphs. Make sure that the dialog shows that the result will be a one-column table. 3. Remove any borders Word may have added (Ctrl+Alt+U). Select the entire table, go to the Row tab of Table Properties, and clear the check box for "Allow rows to break across pages." 4. The next part will be rather tricky. Although you can display two pages side by side in Print Layout view, they won't be facing pages, so you'll have to do a bit of back and forth. For each paragraph, determine which is longer, the Latin or the English, and set the height of that table row to an Exact amount that will just accommodate it. Then set the height of the corresponding row in the other language to the same height. -- 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. "DeeBee" wrote in message ... I want to prepare a document in which a Latin text is displayed on the left hand page, and the English translation on the facing right hand page. the Latin text is about 5 pages long, and so is the translation. The translation should roughly line up with the original text. Is there a way to do this with Word? Any suggestions would be *Very* gratefully received! |
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