Hi Pete
Pete wrote:
I am helping the editor of a (very low budget) journal to format books.
These are fairly complex and long documents (although, in the scheme of
things, probably not too complicated). I would estimate that we are
intermediate level users. We both have macs (mine is a Macbook Pro
using OS X version 10.4.8) and are working on Word 2004 version 11.3.
Here are some of the formatting needs of the books we are working on:
The goal is to have a book (probably in the 200 - 300 page range) with
continuous pages from start to finish. Book chapters need to start on
odd number pages. Sometimes we have to insert a blank page to fulfill
this requirement. The blank page must have a page number and "Blank" in
the header and both must show. For some reason this has been difficult.
Is there an automatic way to create a non-blank, even-numbered page at
the end of a chapter, if the chapter would otherwise end on an odd page?
(by John McGhie)
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/tblsfldsfm...hapcontent.htm
We have also struggled with when we make a change, the rest of the
document shifts (header titles revert to the previous section, page
numbers shift).
Not quite clear what this means. It's natural that the pagination
changes with the flow of text as new content is added or old content
deleted, but other than that ...
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1) Does anyone recommend a resource (book, training, website) that
would answer these questions?
Creating a Template (Part II, by John McGhie)
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm
2) Would we be better served, given our experience level, by having
someone else do the formatting for us? If yes, how would you recommend
that we find such a person (we have a small amount of money)?
Well, that's a tricky question for many things one does: Make or Buy? :-)
Personally, I don't think you will be better off by outsourcing the
formatting _of each and every book_.
But you need a template to work with, supposedly all books will have the
same layout.
You can certainly learn to do a lot yourself, by reading the above
articles, applying the knowledge, coming back here when you are stuck).
This takes your time. When you are payed for that, your employer can
usually decide whether doing it in-house or somewhere else is worth the
time.
When you work for free, the answer at hand is often: of course, it's
cheaper if I do it myself then.
Can be tricky, because maybe it would be better for your project to work
somewhere else in the meantime, and donate some money you make there for
the project. With, say, NGOs, this makes a lot of sense often (it does
not give you the same immediate "good feeling" for your work though --
and the whole point probably does not apply in your case anyways).
If you are looking for Word experts, the mvps.org page has a section
where many of us who do such work are listed. I can't find fault with a
posting inhere looking for a template designer (naturally :-)).
Greetings
Robert