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How to put graphics on envelopes?
You can't upgrade STE. You can buy Publisher without have Office Pro - or
Office anything. Publisher is available as a standalone product. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Steve Koenig" wrote in message ... JoAnn Paules, Thank you for the suggestion. After spending quite a bit of time on the Microsoft web sites and through Google searches about possible upgrades from my student/teacher version of Office, I am now under the impression upgrades aren't available to Office Professional. All I really wanted to add was, in fact, Publisher, which I currently do not have. You make a compelling arguement to do the upgrade that would include Publisher. Well, it wouldn't technically be an upgrade but a brand new purchase. That would be my only choice in adding Publisher, would it not? The $300.00 plus upgrade seemed a shame to be adding one missing component of my student/teacher version, but it is what it is, is it? Best Regards, Steve Koenig "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: The easiest way to pub a graphic on an envelop is to use Publisher. But you didn't ask which program might make the process easier. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Steve Koenig" wrote in message ... Charles, Thank you for the very exhaustive list of web sites regarding Word/WordPerfect differences and other Word tutorial sites. I must remind even myself my goal was to print a graphic on an envelope, not to become a Word MVP. I feel like the parent that called the doctor to inquire about treatment for my son's scrapped knee to be given a semester by semester profile of course requuirements that would eventually lead to a residency in medicine. What I got out of the essays regarding Word versus WordPerfect was that reveal codes does not work in Word as well as in WordPerfect because in Word the formatting isn't placed in the document at the point where it was entered but in an unreadable (via hex text editor) portion of the file as an appendage to the text. Also Word has formatting at various levels, such as individual character, paragraphs then on an even more macro level in what are called styles. Like circles within circles, which, unfortunately isn't how I think. Perhaps these impressions are all wrong and if so, please help me to better understand what I missed. I checked with several people I know that work full time positions in an offrice setting and asked about their use of styles and other concepts I was introduced to in my quest to print a graphic on an envelope and each one said they just typed the business letter or cover sheet and that was it. These aren't obviously publishers of complex documents but what I would consider the majority of users. When teaching statistics, when asked a question I could not answer clearly and informatively, I would instead throw a bushell basket of statistical knowledge their way and hope it appeased them. I will use your reference material as a source for advanced Word training, but getting that graphic on the envelope is still an elusive matter. Thank you, Steve Koenig "Charles Kenyon" wrote: I guess you are one of us. I, too, started with a dedicated Word Processing machine (Dictaphone). Moved to MultiMate, then WP. In none of these was an envelope at all easy. WP has never been straightforward but it has one way of looking at a document and Word has a completely different way of doing things. Neither is especially intuitive. I haven't used WP since version 9. At one time, I had WP macros I had written that were hundreds of lines. Here is some general info on moving from Word Perfect to Word: Word and Word Perfect work very differently from one another. Each program's methods have strengths and weaknesses; but, if you try to use one of these programs as if it were the other, it is like pushing on a string! You can easily make a lot of extra work for yourself. In the (short) long term (weeks rather than years) spending the time to learn Word will save you time if you are spending any time at all (more than an hour a day) using Word. See http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordperfect.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...ordPerfect.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...AndGotchas.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...Converters.htm http://businesssoft.about.com/comput.../blconvert.htm for information on Word for Word Perfect users. For mo http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Custom...platePart2.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Custom...platePart1.htm http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Number...gExplained.htm http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Custom...latesStore.htm Function Keys In Word 2000 (or later) You can get the function keys to display in a special toolbar at the bottom of the screen if you want (something like pressing F3 twice in WP). The following macro will do this. Sub ShowMeFunctionKeys() Commandbars("Function Key Display").Visible = True End Sub Word's Extend key (F8) gives something similar to block processing. The F4 key will repeat the last action, although sometimes gives very strange results. Formatting and Styles Learn about Styles - really learn! http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm I resisted for years and now regret every day of those years because although that string was still very hard to push, it kept getting longer and longer, and had some very important projects tied to it! Once you understand styles and the Word concept of organizing things into Chinese boxes everything falls into place and instead of pushing a string, you can push a button that turns on the very powerful text processing machine known as Microsoft Word and it will start doing your work for you instead of running around behind you trying to undo what you just thought you did. Converting documents Word / Word Perfect Some special characters in Word Perfect documents don't convert well to Word. There is a macro to assist with this described at http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/...html#macroword and can be found at http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/WPSymbolConv.bas. This was prepared by Edward Mendelson. Otherwise, look at the macro from http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=212396 Use these on _copies_! As for converting documents from Word Perfect to _use_ in Word... In a word, don't plan on it. I would not recommend using converted documents long-term. They will be filled with formatting anomolies that will get you at the worst time. This is especially true of any documents containing automatic numbering or bullets. Try recreating form documents in Word using the following process: In Word Perfect (if you still have it, in Word if not) save your files as text files. Use your converted files as references to show you how you want your formatting to look. Create a new document in Word and insert the text from the text file. Save this new document as a Word template. Format it the way you want using styles, not direct formatting. Save it again. To use a template within Word, use File = New and pick your template. This will create a new document for you. Merge documents have special problems and should be recreated from text files or retyped in Word. To convert data files, consider generating labels in WP as a document, converting that to Word, and then using http://www.gmayor.com/convert_labels...mail_merge.htm to get a new Word data file. Note that conversions usually do create documents that look passable and print OK; the problems I'm referring to have to do with editing / making changes, that is, using the documents long-term. (See below on reusing documents vs. using templates.) Conversion back to Word Perfect: There is a problem (in addition to the ones mentioned for conversion _to_ Word) with Version 2002 (XP) and later of Word. The conversion file only works for conversion _to_ Word, not from Word to Word Perfect! Earlier versions went both ways. To fix this, you need to find the old conversion file WPFT532.CNV from a Word 97 or Word 2000 installation and copy it to your new installation, replacing the file of the same name. Note, the change making the file one-way was done as a security measure. While I don't know of any problems the old file causes, keep the new installation's file somewhere as a backup just in case. Boilerplate and Forms In WP a lot of people use macros to hold chunks of text - boilerplate. In Word this function is filled by Templates, AutoText and AutoCorrect, not macros. Follow the links at http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebre...s.htm#AutoText for more information on these tools. You can use FILLIN and ASK fields or UserForms to query the user. For more about online forms, follow the links at http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm. Reusing Documents vs. Using templates General practice in WP is to have a document and copy and edit it to create a new document. This is not good practice in Word. In Word, construct a good, tight, template for your documents and use that template when constructing new documents. Among other things, this can avoid embarrassing "metadata" (http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/metadata.htm) and things like surprise headers and footers from creeping into new documents. It's a lot of reading, I know. It's OK to chunk it down and do a bit each day, but I would recommend that you make it a top priority to do that bit each day. In the (short) long run, it will save you both time and grief. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Steve Koenig" wrote in message ... Charles, Thank you for the reply. However, I will say that when you say, " I guess for those of us who struggled in the early days of word processing and computers to print an envelope, this seems relatively straight-forward," I had to laugh. I started word processing on a WANG before IBM launched their dual disk drive 8088 and did the six diskette shuffle with WordPerfect. Now that was straightforward from the beginning. Within the reveal code screen formattng codes could be viewed and changed. If I wanted a fancy return on an envelope, I simply created it as a document then selected paper type as envelope. I appreciate your suggestions to study the various levels of formatting within Word and have begun this process. In the mean time I am not any closer to getting a graphic on my envelope. Thank you for trying to help, Steve Koenig "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Hi, Sorry, but Word is complex. Some things require more knowledge of its complexities than do others. I guess for those of us who struggled in the early days of word processing and computers to print an envelope, this seems relatively straight-forward. If you are going to use Word effectively, it is essential that you learn how styles work. Until you do, you will be struggling uphill and it will feel like Word is working against you. http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies |
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