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Long Doc Formatting Assistance
Greetings friends,
I am helping the editor of a (very low budget) journal to format books. These are fairly complex and long documents (although, in the scheme of things, probably not too complicated). I would estimate that we are intermediate level users. We both have macs (mine is a Macbook Pro using OS X version 10.4.8) and are working on Word 2004 version 11.3. Here are some of the formatting needs of the books we are working on: The goal is to have a book (probably in the 200 - 300 page range) with continuous pages from start to finish. Book chapters need to start on odd number pages. Sometimes we have to insert a blank page to fulfill this requirement. The blank page must have a page number and "Blank" in the header and both must show. For some reason this has been difficult. We have also struggled with when we make a change, the rest of the document shifts (header titles revert to the previous section, page numbers shift). We are needing a document that has 1 3/4" margin on the bottom and top (from the top of the header) and two inch margins on the sides. For some reason these also have shifted. For the first page of each new chapter the header and page number do not show. Lastly, we have a table of contents and an index we are working with to integrate into the book. We have been doing the TOC by hand. The index has been done manually by looking up the words and inserting the indexing function and then letting word format the index. At times, the auto-indexer has been off in terms of page numbers. Obviously, there are number of questions here. Here are my questions: 1) Does anyone recommend a resource (book, training, website) that would answer these questions? 2) Would we be better served, given our experience level, by having someone else do the formatting for us? If yes, how would you recommend that we find such a person (we have a small amount of money)? 3) What fixes would you recommend for the above questions? Sorry for the long post with multiple questions. Any advice or ideas would be very helpful. Thanks! Pete |
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