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Word template for whitepaper preparation?
Looking for a template to handle 3 column whitepaper preparation. Main text
in middle column, graphics and quotes in smaller columns on each side. |
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The solution that comes to my mind is to set your document margins to the
desired dimensions of the center column where your main text is. On each side of that you would create a text box that is set to the dimensions of your desired side columns. The center column (actually the only 'real' column) is naturally linked from one page to the next, just as any typical document (text flows from page to page). The side columns (fake columns that are really text boxes) can be linked from one to the next (if that effect is desired), but it has to be done manually. You can set up the document so that text boxes along the left side are linked to each other and so that the text boxes along the right side are linked to each other. In that way, text in the side 'columns' can start on one page and flow to their linked boxes on the next page. A page layout application is designed to do this without much effort, but if it must be done in a word processing application (i.e., Word), the linked text box method is the workaround I would think of using. It is a bit labor-intensive to set up, but is doable. The text boxes must each, individually be set to NOT move with text and be positioned absolutely on its appropriate page. This is the case regardless of whether or not the boxes are linked to each other. It doesn't sound like in your case you need to link the boxes€”just an option to consider if annotations at the bottom of one page needs to continue onto the next page along with the main body text. No matter how well such a template is set up (links or not), care must be taken in its use to avoid accidentally wiping out text boxes, etc. It is not a template for an average user, but rather someone who is familiar with the techniques and just wants to have it ready and have some of the busy-work out of the way when the document content is provided. A penny doesn't go a long way anymore, but that's my 2¢. "DrScott" wrote: Looking for a template to handle 3 column whitepaper preparation. Main text in middle column, graphics and quotes in smaller columns on each side. |
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The solution provided will certainly work and is likely what I will use. I
was (am) hoping that somewhere out there is a template along these lines that someone would share and save me setting this thing up. Thanks to gnomom for the quick and useful reply. "gnomon" wrote: The solution that comes to my mind is to set your document margins to the desired dimensions of the center column where your main text is. On each side of that you would create a text box that is set to the dimensions of your desired side columns. The center column (actually the only 'real' column) is naturally linked from one page to the next, just as any typical document (text flows from page to page). The side columns (fake columns that are really text boxes) can be linked from one to the next (if that effect is desired), but it has to be done manually. You can set up the document so that text boxes along the left side are linked to each other and so that the text boxes along the right side are linked to each other. In that way, text in the side 'columns' can start on one page and flow to their linked boxes on the next page. A page layout application is designed to do this without much effort, but if it must be done in a word processing application (i.e., Word), the linked text box method is the workaround I would think of using. It is a bit labor-intensive to set up, but is doable. The text boxes must each, individually be set to NOT move with text and be positioned absolutely on its appropriate page. This is the case regardless of whether or not the boxes are linked to each other. It doesn't sound like in your case you need to link the boxes€”just an option to consider if annotations at the bottom of one page needs to continue onto the next page along with the main body text. No matter how well such a template is set up (links or not), care must be taken in its use to avoid accidentally wiping out text boxes, etc. It is not a template for an average user, but rather someone who is familiar with the techniques and just wants to have it ready and have some of the busy-work out of the way when the document content is provided. A penny doesn't go a long way anymore, but that's my 2¢. "DrScott" wrote: Looking for a template to handle 3 column whitepaper preparation. Main text in middle column, graphics and quotes in smaller columns on each side. |
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