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I want a template with a sheet of A4 divided into rectangular sections. I
want to save it as "name-cards.dotm" or "place-settings.dotm", for instance, and use it from time to time, putting what I want into each section, printing the sheet out and cutting it up. I want the size of the sections to be fixed. I try to make the template with the help of the "ruler" (in Word 2007) and once I have got over my irritation at finding it at the edge of the desktop instead of adjacent to the paper I go to page layout and use continuous breaks to draw the horizontal lines and columns to draw the vertical ones. Later, when I come to use the template, putting text etc. into the rectangles I find the vertical lines stay where they are, as I want, but the horizontal ones move about. A continuous break is not so many centimeters below the top of the page but so many lines and it moves if you change the size of your typeface. It must be possible to make custom templates because you can download them from the web or get them from Office publisher but how do we make our own to our own specifications? |
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"Philip Roe" wrote in message
... I want a template with a sheet of A4 divided into rectangular sections. I want to save it as "name-cards.dotm" or "place-settings.dotm", for instance, and use it from time to time, putting what I want into each section, printing the sheet out and cutting it up. I want the size of the sections to be fixed. I try to make the template with the help of the "ruler" (in Word 2007) and once I have got over my irritation at finding it at the edge of the desktop instead of adjacent to the paper I go to page layout and use continuous breaks to draw the horizontal lines and columns to draw the vertical ones. Later, when I come to use the template, putting text etc. into the rectangles I find the vertical lines stay where they are, as I want, but the horizontal ones move about. A continuous break is not so many centimeters below the top of the page but so many lines and it moves if you change the size of your typeface. It must be possible to make custom templates because you can download them from the web or get them from Office publisher but how do we make our own to our own specifications? Why are you drawing lines? Just make a Table with the correct number of rows and columns and save that as a template. -- Asking a question? Please tell us the version of the application you are asking about, your OS, Service Pack level and the FULL contents of any error message(s) |
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Insert a table, x columns by y rows as required. With the cursor in the
table, use Ctrl+Alt+u to get rid of the printable borders. (Note that if you now cannot see the table now, check Table Gridlines- which are non-printable cell borders.) Select Table Properties and set the table Row height to Exactly and Column width to the sizes required. Save the document as a template in the template folder. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Philip Roe" wrote in message ... I want a template with a sheet of A4 divided into rectangular sections. I want to save it as "name-cards.dotm" or "place-settings.dotm", for instance, and use it from time to time, putting what I want into each section, printing the sheet out and cutting it up. I want the size of the sections to be fixed. I try to make the template with the help of the "ruler" (in Word 2007) and once I have got over my irritation at finding it at the edge of the desktop instead of adjacent to the paper I go to page layout and use continuous breaks to draw the horizontal lines and columns to draw the vertical ones. Later, when I come to use the template, putting text etc. into the rectangles I find the vertical lines stay where they are, as I want, but the horizontal ones move about. A continuous break is not so many centimeters below the top of the page but so many lines and it moves if you change the size of your typeface. It must be possible to make custom templates because you can download them from the web or get them from Office publisher but how do we make our own to our own specifications? |
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As Gordon suggests, a table is what you need, and it's entirely possible
that you'll find one ready-made in Mailings | Create | Labels. For example, if your "name cards" are the size of business cards, you could use an A4 template for business cards. Or you can create your own label definition based on one with similar dimensions. The advantage of starting with a label over creating the table from scratch is that Word's built-in label definitions have some magic properties wrt margins that somehow escape the "One or more of your margins is set outside the printable error" warning when you print. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Philip Roe" wrote in message ... I want a template with a sheet of A4 divided into rectangular sections. I want to save it as "name-cards.dotm" or "place-settings.dotm", for instance, and use it from time to time, putting what I want into each section, printing the sheet out and cutting it up. I want the size of the sections to be fixed. I try to make the template with the help of the "ruler" (in Word 2007) and once I have got over my irritation at finding it at the edge of the desktop instead of adjacent to the paper I go to page layout and use continuous breaks to draw the horizontal lines and columns to draw the vertical ones. Later, when I come to use the template, putting text etc. into the rectangles I find the vertical lines stay where they are, as I want, but the horizontal ones move about. A continuous break is not so many centimeters below the top of the page but so many lines and it moves if you change the size of your typeface. It must be possible to make custom templates because you can download them from the web or get them from Office publisher but how do we make our own to our own specifications? |
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Thank you to those who responded. Using tables evidently struck you as
obvious but it did not strike me that way. I occasionally use tables to show data but I never thought of them as tools for formatting. And Ctrl + Alt +u is not exactly guessable! "Philip Roe" wrote in message ... I want a template with a sheet of A4 divided into rectangular sections. I want to save it as "name-cards.dotm" or "place-settings.dotm", for instance, and use it from time to time, putting what I want into each section, printing the sheet out and cutting it up. I want the size of the sections to be fixed. I try to make the template with the help of the "ruler" (in Word 2007) and once I have got over my irritation at finding it at the edge of the desktop instead of adjacent to the paper I go to page layout and use continuous breaks to draw the horizontal lines and columns to draw the vertical ones. Later, when I come to use the template, putting text etc. into the rectangles I find the vertical lines stay where they are, as I want, but the horizontal ones move about. A continuous break is not so many centimeters below the top of the page but so many lines and it moves if you change the size of your typeface. It must be possible to make custom templates because you can download them from the web or get them from Office publisher but how do we make our own to our own specifications? |
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Well, you don't have to use Alt+Ctrl+U (in fact, that shortcut was
discovered by accident and isn't really documented anywhere); you can select the entire table and choose None for borders. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Philip Roe" wrote in message ... Thank you to those who responded. Using tables evidently struck you as obvious but it did not strike me that way. I occasionally use tables to show data but I never thought of them as tools for formatting. And Ctrl + Alt +u is not exactly guessable! "Philip Roe" wrote in message ... I want a template with a sheet of A4 divided into rectangular sections. I want to save it as "name-cards.dotm" or "place-settings.dotm", for instance, and use it from time to time, putting what I want into each section, printing the sheet out and cutting it up. I want the size of the sections to be fixed. I try to make the template with the help of the "ruler" (in Word 2007) and once I have got over my irritation at finding it at the edge of the desktop instead of adjacent to the paper I go to page layout and use continuous breaks to draw the horizontal lines and columns to draw the vertical ones. Later, when I come to use the template, putting text etc. into the rectangles I find the vertical lines stay where they are, as I want, but the horizontal ones move about. A continuous break is not so many centimeters below the top of the page but so many lines and it moves if you change the size of your typeface. It must be possible to make custom templates because you can download them from the web or get them from Office publisher but how do we make our own to our own specifications? |
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