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how can I add legal "racing stripes" to a document
legal documents often contain vertical stripes down each side of mthe page --
hwo does one add such to a legal template? |
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You draw graphic lines, formatted to be behind text, in the header or
footer. If you have different first-page headers/footers, you need to put them in both the first page header or footer and the continuation page header or footer. I have these in a separate document. My pleading templates automatically copy them from that document and put them where they belong in new documents based on the template. -- 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://www.mvps.org/word 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. "w_e_coyote" wrote in message ... legal documents often contain vertical stripes down each side of mthe page -- hwo does one add such to a legal template? |
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On Tue, 3 May 2005 14:03:53 -0500, "Charles Kenyon"
wrote: You draw graphic lines, formatted to be behind text, in the header or footer. If you have different first-page headers/footers, you need to put them in both the first page header or footer and the continuation page header or footer. I have these in a separate document. My pleading templates automatically copy them from that document and put them where they belong in new documents based on the template. Hi Charles, Is there a reason not to use page borders? In the Format Borders & Shading Page Borders dialog, choose the line width and color, then click the left and right edges of the preview to turn on only the vertical borders. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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They'll need to be "From text" rather than "From edge of page," of course.
-- 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. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Tue, 3 May 2005 14:03:53 -0500, "Charles Kenyon" wrote: You draw graphic lines, formatted to be behind text, in the header or footer. If you have different first-page headers/footers, you need to put them in both the first page header or footer and the continuation page header or footer. I have these in a separate document. My pleading templates automatically copy them from that document and put them where they belong in new documents based on the template. Hi Charles, Is there a reason not to use page borders? In the Format Borders & Shading Page Borders dialog, choose the line width and color, then click the left and right edges of the preview to turn on only the vertical borders. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Is there a reason I don't use page borders?
(1) The lines delineate the left and right margins. These are not symetrical; there is a wider left margin than right margin. (2) I include text information such as my name, address, and phone number outside the lines. I suppose I could add these in a header/footer instead. (3) for many users, there is also line numbering outside the lines - i.e. in the margin, same as above. My main reason for doing it this way is that (I think) I learned the method from the pleading wizard at some time in the distant past. That isn't a good reason for doing anything, since I don't like the pleadings it produces. I just checked and I can use page borders, set, as Suzanne suggested, at a given distance from the text. I can put a frame with my text and a graphic in the margin in the header that is outside the border. I am sure I could put the page numbers there as well. Eventually I may switch over, especially if it produces smaller documents. -- 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://www.mvps.org/word 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. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Tue, 3 May 2005 14:03:53 -0500, "Charles Kenyon" wrote: You draw graphic lines, formatted to be behind text, in the header or footer. If you have different first-page headers/footers, you need to put them in both the first page header or footer and the continuation page header or footer. I have these in a separate document. My pleading templates automatically copy them from that document and put them where they belong in new documents based on the template. Hi Charles, Is there a reason not to use page borders? In the Format Borders & Shading Page Borders dialog, choose the line width and color, then click the left and right edges of the preview to turn on only the vertical borders. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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On Tue, 3 May 2005 16:06:42 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote: They'll need to be "From text" rather than "From edge of page," of course. Ah yes, I keep forgetting that I'm blessed with seemingly the only printer in the known universe that doesn't care how close to the edges I go. :-) -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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The following macro comes close to what I want for the borders. May be of
use to others. Sub Macro3() ' ' Macro3 Macro ' Macro written 5/3/2005 by Charles Kyle Kenyon ' Inserts page borders and sets margins for pleadings. With Selection.Sections(1) With .Borders(wdBorderLeft) .LineStyle = wdLineStyleDouble .LineWidth = wdLineWidth050pt .Color = wdColorAutomatic End With With .Borders(wdBorderRight) .LineStyle = wdLineStyleSingle .LineWidth = wdLineWidth050pt .Color = wdColorAutomatic End With .Borders(wdBorderTop).LineStyle = wdLineStyleNone .Borders(wdBorderBottom).LineStyle = wdLineStyleNone With .Borders .DistanceFrom = wdBorderDistanceFromText .AlwaysInFront = True .SurroundHeader = False .SurroundFooter = False .JoinBorders = False .DistanceFromTop = 24 .DistanceFromLeft = 4 .DistanceFromBottom = 24 .DistanceFromRight = 4 .Shadow = False .EnableFirstPageInSection = True .EnableOtherPagesInSection = True .ApplyPageBordersToAllSections End With End With With ActiveDocument.PageSetup .TopMargin = InchesToPoints(1) .BottomMargin = InchesToPoints(1) .LeftMargin = InchesToPoints(1.5) .RightMargin = InchesToPoints(0.8) End With End Sub -- 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://www.mvps.org/word 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. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Tue, 3 May 2005 14:03:53 -0500, "Charles Kenyon" wrote: You draw graphic lines, formatted to be behind text, in the header or footer. If you have different first-page headers/footers, you need to put them in both the first page header or footer and the continuation page header or footer. I have these in a separate document. My pleading templates automatically copy them from that document and put them where they belong in new documents based on the template. Hi Charles, Is there a reason not to use page borders? In the Format Borders & Shading Page Borders dialog, choose the line width and color, then click the left and right edges of the preview to turn on only the vertical borders. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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No, that's not the issue. The issue is that the lines need to be very near
the margins. Have a look at the results of Word's Pleading Wizard to see what we're talking about. -- 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. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Tue, 3 May 2005 16:06:42 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: They'll need to be "From text" rather than "From edge of page," of course. Ah yes, I keep forgetting that I'm blessed with seemingly the only printer in the known universe that doesn't care how close to the edges I go. :-) -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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On Tue, 3 May 2005 17:46:25 -0500, "Charles Kenyon"
wrote: Is there a reason I don't use page borders? (1) The lines delineate the left and right margins. These are not symetrical; there is a wider left margin than right margin. (2) I include text information such as my name, address, and phone number outside the lines. I suppose I could add these in a header/footer instead. (3) for many users, there is also line numbering outside the lines - i.e. in the margin, same as above. My main reason for doing it this way is that (I think) I learned the method from the pleading wizard at some time in the distant past. That isn't a good reason for doing anything, since I don't like the pleadings it produces. I just checked and I can use page borders, set, as Suzanne suggested, at a given distance from the text. I can put a frame with my text and a graphic in the margin in the header that is outside the border. I am sure I could put the page numbers there as well. Eventually I may switch over, especially if it produces smaller documents. Hi Charles, Thanks for the explanation -- clearly there are more factors to consider than I thought. I've tried out the macro you posted. The result certainly looks good to this untrained eye. I also added line numbers, and they sit in the margin outside the border. If you're satisfied, so am I. :-) -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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how can I add legal "racing stripes" to a document
Charles,
I just found this reply to adding pleading formattig to a document. I have the opposite problem. I have a document that has 7 pages in it. Pages 3-6 have the pleading format. When I try to add page 7 without the pleading format, I get a series of bizaare results. The pleading formatting is contained in the Header and Footer. So far, I have tried using a Section Break/Next Page after the last line of page 6, disconncted the header of page 7 from the header of 6 as well as a few other things I've read. The best I've come up with is removing the formatting elements successfully BUT, when I try to reset the page margins for page 7, the pleading format from page 6 scoots over to the margin settings for page 7. I would like to fix this problem as it exists now, if possible. Maybe the easiest thing would be to use the macro listed on this reply. However, I'm not sure about how to use it to best advantage. Any suggestions? Thank You, MoJR "Charles Kenyon" wrote: The following macro comes close to what I want for the borders. May be of use to others. Sub Macro3() ' ' Macro3 Macro ' Macro written 5/3/2005 by Charles Kyle Kenyon ' Inserts page borders and sets margins for pleadings. With Selection.Sections(1) With .Borders(wdBorderLeft) .LineStyle = wdLineStyleDouble .LineWidth = wdLineWidth050pt .Color = wdColorAutomatic End With With .Borders(wdBorderRight) .LineStyle = wdLineStyleSingle .LineWidth = wdLineWidth050pt .Color = wdColorAutomatic End With .Borders(wdBorderTop).LineStyle = wdLineStyleNone .Borders(wdBorderBottom).LineStyle = wdLineStyleNone With .Borders .DistanceFrom = wdBorderDistanceFromText .AlwaysInFront = True .SurroundHeader = False .SurroundFooter = False .JoinBorders = False .DistanceFromTop = 24 .DistanceFromLeft = 4 .DistanceFromBottom = 24 .DistanceFromRight = 4 .Shadow = False .EnableFirstPageInSection = True .EnableOtherPagesInSection = True .ApplyPageBordersToAllSections End With End With With ActiveDocument.PageSetup .TopMargin = InchesToPoints(1) .BottomMargin = InchesToPoints(1) .LeftMargin = InchesToPoints(1.5) .RightMargin = InchesToPoints(0.8) End With End Sub -- 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://www.mvps.org/word 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. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Tue, 3 May 2005 14:03:53 -0500, "Charles Kenyon" wrote: You draw graphic lines, formatted to be behind text, in the header or footer. If you have different first-page headers/footers, you need to put them in both the first page header or footer and the continuation page header or footer. I have these in a separate document. My pleading templates automatically copy them from that document and put them where they belong in new documents based on the template. Hi Charles, Is there a reason not to use page borders? In the Format Borders & Shading Page Borders dialog, choose the line width and color, then click the left and right edges of the preview to turn on only the vertical borders. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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how can I add legal "racing stripes" to a document
MoJR wrote:
The best I've come up with is removing the formatting elements successfully BUT, when I try to reset the page margins for page 7, the pleading format from page 6 scoots over to the margin settings for page 7. Are you sure that "this section" is selected in File | Page Setup while you try to change the margins? HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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how can I add legal "racing stripes" to a document
Yes sir.
"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote: MoJR wrote: The best I've come up with is removing the formatting elements successfully BUT, when I try to reset the page margins for page 7, the pleading format from page 6 scoots over to the margin settings for page 7. Are you sure that "this section" is selected in File | Page Setup while you try to change the margins? HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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