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I need help for our church christmas play on the 17th.. I would like to make
some kind of screen help with the play on it so they can view it if they forget their lines.there are about 38 pages of the play, I have word, powrer point. please help me on this matter. Also I'm realy not to experience on these programs. I have done small word & point jobs. Thanks Rockie |
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The play is probably already in Word, so it may be easier to work with Word.
Are you talking about one screen for all actors to view? How many actors? You will need to use a large font or zoom to 500% in order for them to be able to read. It is going to be quite a feat for the operator to keep up with everyone's lines as well! I would suggest that you allocate each actor a colour and type their words in that colour. Hope this is useful. -- Rae Drysdale "rockie" wrote: I need help for our church christmas play on the 17th.. I would like to make some kind of screen help with the play on it so they can view it if they forget their lines.there are about 38 pages of the play, I have word, powrer point. please help me on this matter. Also I'm realy not to experience on these programs. I have done small word & point jobs. Thanks Rockie |
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Rae,
The play is not in anything right now,just book form. I do have a scanner, can u tell me how i should do this, should it be one big page, or 38 differant scans? "Rae Drysdale" wrote: The play is probably already in Word, so it may be easier to work with Word. Are you talking about one screen for all actors to view? How many actors? You will need to use a large font or zoom to 500% in order for them to be able to read. It is going to be quite a feat for the operator to keep up with everyone's lines as well! I would suggest that you allocate each actor a colour and type their words in that colour. Hope this is useful. -- Rae Drysdale "rockie" wrote: I need help for our church christmas play on the 17th.. I would like to make some kind of screen help with the play on it so they can view it if they forget their lines.there are about 38 pages of the play, I have word, powrer point. please help me on this matter. Also I'm realy not to experience on these programs. I have done small word & point jobs. Thanks Rockie |
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You will need to scan it as OCR in order to make any changes in font size
etc. You should be able to do this as one document. If you just scan each page as an image you can't do anything much with it. -- Rae Drysdale "rockie" wrote: Rae, The play is not in anything right now,just book form. I do have a scanner, can u tell me how i should do this, should it be one big page, or 38 differant scans? "Rae Drysdale" wrote: The play is probably already in Word, so it may be easier to work with Word. Are you talking about one screen for all actors to view? How many actors? You will need to use a large font or zoom to 500% in order for them to be able to read. It is going to be quite a feat for the operator to keep up with everyone's lines as well! I would suggest that you allocate each actor a colour and type their words in that colour. Hope this is useful. -- Rae Drysdale "rockie" wrote: I need help for our church christmas play on the 17th.. I would like to make some kind of screen help with the play on it so they can view it if they forget their lines.there are about 38 pages of the play, I have word, powrer point. please help me on this matter. Also I'm realy not to experience on these programs. I have done small word & point jobs. Thanks Rockie |
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are you trying to make "cue cards"?
you could re-type the play into Word (phew! lots of work) and take it to kinko's or copier place that will photocopy the 8-1/2 x 11 sheets onto oversize sheets (kinko's has a plot printer that does poster size copying) - its still going to be quite a feat to make them readable (and as Rae pointed out, to keep up with). are you trying to make "a teleprompter"? If you have a large projection screen that the actors could refer to, you could re-type the play onto PowerPoint slides (whew ... quite a bit of work) and roll through the slides like a teleprompter. I don't think Word or PowerPoint is your challenge - your challenge is to figure out how either one would be read from far away, and if the play is 30+ pages long, perhaps photocopying is the better option. We live in a really small town in northern nevada, and figured out that all of the high school kids are learning how to use Word and PowerPoint in school - possible resource? I put a little word in for you during my lunch time "connection with Him" ... I be He gives you just the solution you need ... "rockie" wrote: Rae, The play is not in anything right now,just book form. I do have a scanner, can u tell me how i should do this, should it be one big page, or 38 differant scans? "Rae Drysdale" wrote: The play is probably already in Word, so it may be easier to work with Word. Are you talking about one screen for all actors to view? How many actors? You will need to use a large font or zoom to 500% in order for them to be able to read. It is going to be quite a feat for the operator to keep up with everyone's lines as well! I would suggest that you allocate each actor a colour and type their words in that colour. Hope this is useful. -- Rae Drysdale "rockie" wrote: I need help for our church christmas play on the 17th.. I would like to make some kind of screen help with the play on it so they can view it if they forget their lines.there are about 38 pages of the play, I have word, powrer point. please help me on this matter. Also I'm realy not to experience on these programs. I have done small word & point jobs. Thanks Rockie |
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And if any of the actors is over 40, you will have people who don't wear
glasses because they are a fashion statement, they wear them so they don't walk into walls. (Yes, I would be one of those. Cue cards would have to have huge, bold lettering to be of any assistance for me.) -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "missmarlag" wrote in message ... are you trying to make "cue cards"? you could re-type the play into Word (phew! lots of work) and take it to kinko's or copier place that will photocopy the 8-1/2 x 11 sheets onto oversize sheets (kinko's has a plot printer that does poster size copying) - its still going to be quite a feat to make them readable (and as Rae pointed out, to keep up with). are you trying to make "a teleprompter"? If you have a large projection screen that the actors could refer to, you could re-type the play onto PowerPoint slides (whew ... quite a bit of work) and roll through the slides like a teleprompter. I don't think Word or PowerPoint is your challenge - your challenge is to figure out how either one would be read from far away, and if the play is 30+ pages long, perhaps photocopying is the better option. We live in a really small town in northern nevada, and figured out that all of the high school kids are learning how to use Word and PowerPoint in school - possible resource? I put a little word in for you during my lunch time "connection with Him" ... I be He gives you just the solution you need ... "rockie" wrote: Rae, The play is not in anything right now,just book form. I do have a scanner, can u tell me how i should do this, should it be one big page, or 38 differant scans? "Rae Drysdale" wrote: The play is probably already in Word, so it may be easier to work with Word. Are you talking about one screen for all actors to view? How many actors? You will need to use a large font or zoom to 500% in order for them to be able to read. It is going to be quite a feat for the operator to keep up with everyone's lines as well! I would suggest that you allocate each actor a colour and type their words in that colour. Hope this is useful. -- Rae Drysdale "rockie" wrote: I need help for our church christmas play on the 17th.. I would like to make some kind of screen help with the play on it so they can view it if they forget their lines.there are about 38 pages of the play, I have word, powrer point. please help me on this matter. Also I'm realy not to experience on these programs. I have done small word & point jobs. Thanks Rockie |
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missmarlag wrote:
are you trying to make "a teleprompter"? If you have a large projection screen that the actors could refer to, you could re-type the play onto PowerPoint slides (whew ... quite a bit of work) and roll through the slides like a teleprompter. I'd use Word's Normal view, Wrap-to-window, in the desired zoom. And yes, the operator has a tough job (you could do it in PPT with a timed presentation -- that will set the pace for all the actors :-)). Greetings Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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There's a lot to be said for the old fashioned human prompter!
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org rockie wrote: I need help for our church christmas play on the 17th.. I would like to make some kind of screen help with the play on it so they can view it if they forget their lines.there are about 38 pages of the play, I have word, powrer point. please help me on this matter. Also I'm realy not to experience on these programs. I have done small word & point jobs. Thanks Rockie |
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Seems like we're on the same page on this one!
-- 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. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... There's a lot to be said for the old fashioned human prompter! -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org rockie wrote: I need help for our church christmas play on the 17th.. I would like to make some kind of screen help with the play on it so they can view it if they forget their lines.there are about 38 pages of the play, I have word, powrer point. please help me on this matter. Also I'm realy not to experience on these programs. I have done small word & point jobs. Thanks Rockie |
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