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Is there a way to set so many words per page?
My friend is writing a play and needs to have 300 words per page. Is there
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Is there a way to set so many words per page?
In general, screenplays seem to require a lot of things that Word isn't
so great at doing, and there's certainly no easy checkbox to tell Word "I want 300 words per page". Dedicated screenplay software exists for a reason, and I'd suggest your friend try out some of those programs. You might also Google for screenplay template or search here, in case something has been set up that works. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/te...s/default.aspx Someone else may have a better answer, though. Marcie wrote: My friend is writing a play and needs to have 300 words per page. Is there any way to set this up in Word? |
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Is there a way to set so many words per page?
Thank you. I gave this information to him. Maybe someone else might still
have a suggestion on how to do this in Word. Thanks for trying. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: In general, screenplays seem to require a lot of things that Word isn't so great at doing, and there's certainly no easy checkbox to tell Word "I want 300 words per page". Dedicated screenplay software exists for a reason, and I'd suggest your friend try out some of those programs. You might also Google for screenplay template or search here, in case something has been set up that works. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/te...s/default.aspx Someone else may have a better answer, though. Marcie wrote: My friend is writing a play and needs to have 300 words per page. Is there any way to set this up in Word? |
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Is there a way to set so many words per page?
As Daiya suggests there is no easy way of setting up Word to limit the page
length to only three hundred (or any other number) words. There are a number of problems, not least of which are the random spacing of proportional fonts and the definition of what Word actually considers to be a 'word'. You cannot for example simply move the cursor along three hundreds 'words' and insert a break. The following macro will locate and insert a page break at the start of every 300th word, but the macro is slow and clumsy because of the loops, so I have cross posted the reply to the vba forum where better programmers than me may be able to refine it. Even as it stands it will insert page breaks leaving 300 words per page, which, if you double space the text and set the margins appropriately should fill the 'pages' with 300 words. However, if you then add or remove words during a later stage of editing, all the breaks will be in the wrong places, so you would have to remove all the breaks from the document and re-run the macro. As you can see, Word is not the best tool for this job: Sub Test5() Dim i As Long Dim iPages As Integer Dim iCount As Long iPages = ActiveDocument.Range.Words.Count iPages = iPages / 300 iCount = 1 Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory Do Until iCount = iPages With Selection.Find .ClearFormatting .Replacement.ClearFormatting .Text = "[0-9a-zA-Z]" .Replacement.Text = "^&" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchAllWordForms = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchWildcards = True End With For i = 1 To 301 Selection.Find.Execute Next i With Selection .MoveLeft wdCharacter .InsertBreak wdPageBreak End With iCount = iCount + 1 Loop End Sub http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Marcie wrote: Thank you. I gave this information to him. Maybe someone else might still have a suggestion on how to do this in Word. Thanks for trying. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: In general, screenplays seem to require a lot of things that Word isn't so great at doing, and there's certainly no easy checkbox to tell Word "I want 300 words per page". Dedicated screenplay software exists for a reason, and I'd suggest your friend try out some of those programs. You might also Google for screenplay template or search here, in case something has been set up that works. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/te...s/default.aspx Someone else may have a better answer, though. Marcie wrote: My friend is writing a play and needs to have 300 words per page. Is there any way to set this up in Word? |
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