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    - How do I make individ. business cards? (Wedding table placecards) Want to make my own placecards to set on tables at our wedding but not sure how to keep everything the same, only change the name on the card and have it print like that...help! Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175088
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    - Line up text with baseline guide AND have space between paragraphs I have text boxes with multiple columns and I want to vertically align the lines of text across columns, which I've done by aligning my body text style to the baseline guides. But I also want a space between each paragraph that is smaller than a whole line spacing (in Word it would be 12pt font with space after paragraph = 6pt). I have tried adjusting my baseline guide spacings and my style paragraph settings to every possible combination but I can't seem to achieve this. Settings currently are: body text = TNR 10pt, line spacing 10pt baseline guide = spacing = 13pt, offset = 0 This gives me the spacing I want and it's all nicely lined up, but I have no extra space between paragraphs. I'm very close to resorting to blank paragraphs of a different size, but would really rather not! Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175086
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    - Completely, totally and utterly OT: Picture It Photo & Print Studi Yes, I know the app in the subject's ancient (released towards the back-end of 2001, IIRC) but ISTR that the images and clip-art were of very high quality and I'd like to access it for general usage (i.e. in Publisher and PagePlus X2). I have installed PIP&PS no probs, and can launch it but, when I attempt to open any project (whether blank or predesigned) I am, rather unceremoniously, without the merest hint of an error message, dumped back to the desktop. Now, I am thinking that, when it was first released, XP (I'm running Home SP2) was still either in beta, or had just been released, which is probably the cause of my woes. Now, M$, as is its wont, has encased the images and clips inside proprietary 'sbs' and 'sbt' archives (it's the former that actually contain the needed - the latter just look like some kind of 'pointer' file). So, I suppose my question is twofold: - 1) Can I persuade PI to open its own projects and/or 2) Is there any way of extracting the images from within the 'shoebox' files (I did find something called 'xtractor.exe' but that doesn't appear to want to run outside of PIP ('unable to decompress the package due to corrupt archive.' I've no idea what it means by 'corrupt archive' - I assume it's referring to itself). I am attempting to design a flyer for a friend's chocolaterie - and am wanting to do it the lazy way! Any chance of this working; or am I, as I suspect, SOL? *I believe this was called Picture It Publishing 2002 in the US/Canada. Cheers my little chickadees, P.T. P.S. Sorry if this appears twice - IE crashed when I attempted to post it the first time! Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175083
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    - Completely, totally and utterly OT: Picture It! Photo & Print Stud Yes, I know the app in the subject's ancient (released towards the back-end of 2001, IIRC) but ISTR that the images and clip-art were of very high quality and I'd like to access it for general usage (i.e. in Publisher and PagePlus X2). I have installed PIP&PS no probs, and can launch it but, when I attempt to open any project (whether blank or predesigned) I am, rather unceremoniously, without the merest hint of an error message, dumped back to the desktop. Now, I am thinking that, when it was first released, XP (I'm running Home SP2) was still either in beta, or had just been released, which is probably the cause of my woes. Now, M$, as is its wont, has encased the images and clips inside proprietary 'sbs' and 'sbt' archives (it's the former that actually contain the needed - the latter just look like some kind of 'pointer' file). So, I suppose my question is twofold: - 1) Can I persuade PI to open its own projects and/or 2) Is there any way of extracting the images from within the 'shoebox' files (I did find something called 'xtractor.exe' but that doesn't appear to want to run outside of PIP ('unable to decompress the package due to corrupt archive.' I've no idea what it means by 'corrupt archive' - I assume it's referring to itself). I am attempting to design a flyer for a friend's chocolaterie - and am wanting to do it the lazy way! Any chance of this working; or am I, as I suspect, SOL? *I believe this was called Picture It Publishing 2002 in the US/Canada. Cheers my little chickadees, P.T. Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175082
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    - Object Links When I link a Word document that has multiple pages in Publisher only the first page appears? Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175078
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    - Creating raffle tickets? I wanted to create many own raffle tickets in my publishing program, but I don't want to have to many type 1 through 1000 on each ticket for the ticket number. Is there any way tha publisher or another office program can automaticly input the different numbers on each ind. ticket? I tried searching the online help for information but had no luck. Please- Any help would be greatly appreciated. THANK YOU! Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175075
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    - mail merge troubleshooting I am looking for troubleshooting help in Publisher 2003 mail merge. We are trying to add mailing addresses to a full color 4 page 8 1/2 x 11 booklet. Original booklet file is 13 MG. 300 Addresses are in an Excel file. I have tried 2 different excel files. We got this to work once for 1/2 the list before it quit. In November I got it to work, albeit slowly, and 10 addresses at a time. I have since had the registry fix installed and double-checked by our IT dept. Since the registry fix, I cannot print the file, or pdf it with anything involving a merge. I also tried to cancel the merge. Since I cancelled the merge, the merge wizard is greyed out. Any suggestions? I have searched the Help files and the forums; The past week I have tried everything I can think of. Am working off my desktop; Also tried renamings, re-copying original, etc. Is there a Bible on Publisher merges that goes indepth? We would really like to use the merge feature, but we need to iron out the kinks first. Thanks! Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175073
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    - 2002 Publisher When I try to save my Publisher Docs to a CD it says incorrect function or it is a read only file. Can anyone help? I am not tech savy. -- Kramer Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175072
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    - black box I have a page in Publisher with pie charts. Any PDF or print of that page results in a black box instead of the chart. Any good ideas? Sending to a deskjet is fine. Sending to a HP4250 is fine. Any ideas? Dave French Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175065
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    - Stop Tile format printing in 8.5 x 11- unsolved Hi, In published 2007 I am trying to print a standard letter size A3. When I go to print it tiles it into 4. I have tried changing the printer settings and changing everything previously suggested. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Thank you Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175057
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    - How can I add 'Favorites 'to my toolbar I want to add a 'Favorites' key to my tool bar in Microsoft Publisher?' Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175051
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    - Standard picture size I am creating a mail merge document using an Excel spreadsheet as a data source. I have 4 pictures per page. The spreadsheet stores the pathname for the pictures, which I use as a merge field in the Publisher document. The pictures have been cropped to different sizes, but I need them all to be 3x3 in my finshished merge documents. Is there some way to force the pictures to fit the frame, even though this will distort the picture somewhat? -rg Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175048
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    - Cannot access a Publisher doc without my printserver being on I can start up my Publisher program but cannot access a doc, either new template or an active one, without having my print server turned on. As publisher boots up, it looks for the print server and if it doesn't see it across my wireless lan, it gives me a msg that it can't find it. It brings up Publisher and when I open a doc, I get a Microsoft error and the program shuts down and starts a loop of opening, producing the err msg, & shutting down. I have Office 2007 and it doesn't happen with Word or Excel or Outlook. I can't find this problem listed anywhere in the help files online. -- Joan N. Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175047
  - 14
    - Inhoudstafel Hoe kan ik een inhoudstafel maken in Microsoft Publisher? Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175042
  - 15
    - Goof book for Publisher 2007? What's a good book for someone familiar with computers, graphics programs, MS apps and software stuff in general. but not with Publisher, specifically 2007? TIA, Craig Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175035
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    - Is Publisher 2003 compatible with my new printer ? I have a new HP Officejet pro K5400 printer that does not print out my booklet correctly that I have on publisher 2003. I have downloaded the most up-dated driver from HP, still does not line up. On my old HP Officejet 6210 I had no problems, I just can't seem to find the correct driver. I spoke to HP tec service and they suggested that Publisher is not used very much these days and some printers are not compatible with it ? I can't beleive this is true. Anybody got any suggestions ......please !!! Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175022
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    - How do I create spine labels on Office XP pro? I am trying to make spine labels for binders used in our businesses. Does anyone know how I would go about this or if it is possible using MS Office XP Pro? Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175021
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    - PbSaveOptions.pbSaveChanges causes exception I'm trying to automate the daily updating of my company's price list, which is a publisher file, programmatically. Lots of details I will probably have to ask about later, but the problem I'm having now is that I can't open my publisher file using the Application Open() function with the PbSaveOptions.pbSaveChanges option set. My code looks like this: Application pubApp = new Application(); Document availabilityDoc = pubApp.Open(availListFile, false, false, PbSaveOptions.pbSaveChanges); where 'availListFile' is a string holding the path and filename of the file I want to open. It's on the local c: drive. It compiles fine but at runtime I get the exception "Value does not fall within the expected range." If I change pbSave Changes to either of the other two options, 'pbPromptToSaveChanges' or 'pbDoNotSaveChanges', I don't get that exception. However, I really do want my changes saved when I close the document, and because I want it to execute automatically in the middle of the night, I don't want to have to answer a prompt. I'm using Visual Studio 2005 and I've referenced MS Publisher 12.0 Object library. If it matters, I've got MS Publisher 2007 loaded on my machine. I don't think it's a permissions issue as I've opened everything up, both the file and the folder it's in, so there shouldn't be an access issue. Any ideas how I can get around this and still keep the changes I'll be making to my file? Thanks! Glenn Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175019
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    - Printing a booklet Hello, I have created a 44 page booklet that I am now ready to print, however pages 12 - 33 will not print. Any suggestions??? -- KL Anders Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175016
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    - the correct program This is by no means a bash against MS Publisher. I am working with a client that is assembling hundreds of reports utilizing MS Publisher. These are intricate financial reports with tables, graphs, charts etc. that are many pages long, so it is by nature a very intense procedure. The information comes mainly from Excel workbooks by way of copy and paste. This has been an OK procedure but the fact remains that to insert a page...redo page numbers and deal with the idiocincracies of ever changing information have made this a nightmarish duty to say the least. Would someone at least give me an idea if my theory is correct that MS Word would be a better choice in this case for it's very robust nature and ability to deal with the challenges of long documents over MS Publisher. It has been working but there are many advantages I see that point to the use of Word in this case. Please make your suggestions good, bad and ugly. David French Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175014
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    - initial zoom setting When I open a Publisher document, the zoom setting is always 54% is there a way of making it default to open at 100%? Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175008
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    - How do I move from page to page in Publisher 2007? Publisher 2003 showed a view of all pages across the bottom of the publication. How can I tell how many pages are in my publication and how do I get from one page to the other in Publisher 2007? Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175004
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    - converting 11x17 poster (4 pgs in publisher) to pdf as one page Need to convert to pdf an 11x17 poster but it converts as 4 pages (my printer does not accommodate that size paper). Is that my problem? Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 175001
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    - Publisher 2003 Bug with aligning at angles? I made a 3.75" diameter circle and then put more circles inside, each one 0.25" smaller in diameter all the way down to 1.25". Then I drew angle lines across the diameter of the largest circle, every 7.5 degrees, all around the circle. I made little rectangles 5mm X 2mm in size and placed them along the bottom half of the circle where each of the angle lines and the 3.5" circle intersect (Each of the small rectangles was also rotated to the same angle as the previously drawn lines that span the diameter of the circles). I then selected the rectangles on the bottom half of the circle and copied them. I pasted a copy of the rectangles and grouped them. Then I flipped the group vertically. When I tried to align the group of rectangles to the top half of the circle, I found that the little rectangles are out of alignment and are not where the angle lines and 3.5" diameter circle intersect. is this a bug? or did I do something wrong. Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174993
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    - Help with not enough memory error message on Publisher 2007 My company purchased new computer with Office 2007 suite. Computer has XP Pro with 3 GB Ram. As I have been using Publisher, I have received two error messages. #1 - "Cannot complete this operation" when I try to print a document a second or third time- the first time I can print, then it "disconnects" from the printer. #2 - I received an error message today that says, "There is not enough memory to complete this operation. To make more memory available, close other programs and try again." I am confused as to why this is happening. My old computer was XP Home edition and I used Publisher 2003 without any problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174991
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    - Cannot Print from Publisher 2003 When attempting to print from MS Publisher to my Dell AIO 966 printer, I receive "Cannot Load Printer Driver". MS Word 2003, part of the same Office Suite, prints with no problem, as does everything else on my system capable of printing. My OS is Vista Home Premium. Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174989
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    - The background sound will not play I the web page I created the background sound will not play when I preview my web page. When I first created the page it played, but now it does not. Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174978
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    - Publisher SR-1 Stand Alone upgrade Can I upgrade my product to latest version? If so will I be able to use publications I have created in this 2000 version? Will I be able to then send my work by email to someone that has Office 2007 on their computer? Thank you. -- Libby Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174972
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    - Publisher says there's a problem with your file. Publisher won't file in order to be safe. I worked on this document for 5 hours . Please help! Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174967
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    - How can I cancel a task pane in Publisher? -- VP Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174966
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    - Publisher 2003 Mail Merge I have managed to shrink a certificate template down to fit two on one page, however when I do a mail merge, it prints the same person's name on both certificates. Is there a way I can have it print the next person's name in the mail merge on the second certificate? -- Matilda Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174965
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    - Publisher 2007 Print preview Hello, I am using Publisher 2007 to create a booklet. I have 2 questions. The booklet pages are 4.25" x 5.5". The layout I'm using is Booklet and Portrait Orientation. The paper size is 8.5" x 11". I have inserted page numbers; however, when viewing the booklet in Print Preview, I do not see the page number on the bottom half of the 8.5" x 11" sheet even though there are four 4.25"x 5.5" pages showing. The Page Setup Window says "Prints two pages per sheet of paper." My questions are: 1) is it possible to print 4 pages on an 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper with the dimensions of the booklet pages noted above, and 2) why am I not able to see the page numbers in Print Preview of the two booklet pages on the lower half of the 8.5 x 11 sheet. Something tells me it has to do with "Prints two pages per sheet of paper. Thank you for any help you can give me. Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174960
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    - Publisher 2003 moves very slowly -- Please help Hi everyone -- I have a publisher file that originated in Publisher 2003. I am using Publisher 2003. The file is two MB. At some point during its creation it began changing from page to page really, really slowly (maybe 20 seconds). The file does not have many graphics -- it is mostly text. It has 7 embedded images, four with the extension .emz, 1 jpeg, 1 gif, and one WMF. None is larger than 70KB, most much smaller. It is about 40 pages, mostly text. All other publisher files move quickly for me. I'm really in a tight spot -- can anyone help me? Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174955
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    - How do I copy a page from Publisher into a Powerpoint Slide? I have a page in Publisher 2007 that I am trying to copy onto a slide in Powerpoint 2007 and when it pastes on a slide it is all unreadable. Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174954
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    - Mail Merge Even after I have formatted the cells in Excel (currency, $, 2 decimals), when I try to bring that data into publisher for my mail merge, it has multiple numbers past the decimal point, i.e instead of $125.26 it shows up as $125.265. Seemed to try everything and can't correct. Any suggestions< Thanks Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174951
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    - Background - Does it have to be on whole page? I am new to Publisher. Is it possible to assign a background to just part of a page instead of the whole thing? Any help is greatly appreciated! Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174939
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    - Page Orientation I've checked 'Help' in Publisher and know how to change the orientation for one page in my publication but when I do that, all pages in the publication become the same orientation. How do you have different page orientations in the same publication? Thanks. Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174932
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    - html docs to publisher docs I have managed to delete the publisher file, but have the index and index_files. Is there a way I can reverse engineer these html files to the original publisher file? Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174926
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    - saved as 98 or 2000 publisher file open as a web? Hi, Ok, my problem is that I save a 2007 pub file as either a 98 or a 2000 file and when I go and open it on my other computer in 98 or 2000 it has the title as a web publication, when I want a print doc? (I do realize that some things don't convert, by why would columns be something that doesn't convert) Also it will only show 1 page at a time, not the book form when viewing it. Any suggestions to fix? Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174923
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    - When I open publisher 2002 it immediately closes. There appears to be a grey microsoft message box which appears in the center of the screen first, but the program closes so quickly that I cannot read it. Does anyone know how I can fix this problem? All of my other office 2002 applications still work fine. Thanks, Brian Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174920
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    - Cant uninstall I downloaded a trial of Microsoft Publisher 2007. I do not want to convert it to a purchase, but when I try to uninstall it via control panel / add-delete software it won't let me uninstall it. It just says uninstall was unsuccessful. I have tried many times, tried rebooting, etc. Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174916
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    - Publisher and 2007 Is Publisher part of the Office 2007 Suite? Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174914
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    - Saving .pub file to send to others How the heck do I know how to SAVE AS when I want to "share"/send this .pub file. It contains both black and white photos and text. Well, I know how to save as, but there's so much to choose from. Help, please. This is MS Publisher 2002, sp3. Nice program after ya get used to it. <g> AnnE in MN Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174907
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    - MS Pub 2003: Pasting How do you set the program to use the template's font formatting when pasting text into a brochure? It keeps using the format that I am pasting. Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174906
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    - Is CMYK problematic in Publisher 2003? I am creating a 28 page A5, fully colour newsletter which is sent to a commercial printer as a PDF. My commercial printer asked for a PDF with colours set up as CMYK. To do this I created a postcript file and then ran this through Adobe distiller. It worked but there were problems: Printing to file (postscript) took 10 minutes for my newsletter to complete. All graphics had to be manually inserted from file - attempting to use cut and paste resulted in blank images in the PDF. I have now been experimenting with the print settings and by changing the colour from CMYK to RGB has resulted in some big improvements: I can now print directly to PDF without having to go through the intermediate step of creating a postscript file Printing takes 1 not 10 minutes Images that have been inserted using cut and paste now appear in the resulting PDF. So are their known issues with using CMYK in Publisher? Is my commercial printer going to have kittens as a result of getting RGB rather than CMYK colours? Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174902
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    - resetting design templates to defaults? hello, Somehow, the publication designs have changed, you have the "publication designs, but when I bring them into the document (or start it) they all have a green whether font or text box backgrounds. Is there a way to reset the design schemes back to there defaults? thans Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174897
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    - How do I create a promo card flyer I would like to create a promo card, landscape with 6 images (jpeg photographs) 3 on top and 3 on bottom . I used both Office 2003 and Office 2007 and I have Publisher with both ( 1 PC at home and the other at the office). It's to be printed by a external printer in full colour. Is publisher the best program to use for this or Photoshop? How do I keep the clours as close to the original as possible? In other words will I be experiencing any colour loss? Also does MS have any templates that can be imported into Photoshop? Thanks JLM Photography Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174884
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    - draw a curve in Publisher It can't be this hard! I'm making a flow chart in Publisher. How can I make a perfect curve? Partially covering an autoshape with another frame won't work because it's going on the top layer. Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174883
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    - Change sequence of pages in Pub2007 document I have been asked to convert a Pub2007 document into a PDF file and post on an organizational website. However, the page sequence has been designed for a monthly newsletter for mailing. The document has 4 pages and is 11x17. I need the output to be 4 pages in correct sequence 8.5x11 for easy printing by those who wish to obtain a digital newsletter. I am attempting to avoid a complete redesign of the pages. I believe it should be possible to tell Publisher to re-sequence the pages in the proper order and to resize the pages to 8.5x11 for personal computer printout on letter-size home printers. Please contact me at consultant810@yahoo.com with your answers or post here and I will review your comments. Thanks in advance, Brian Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174880
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    - Publisher 2003 calendar again. Mary's first reply helped. I need to know one more thing. How do I change the months to start with August 2008 and ending with May of 2009? -- Terry Buringrud Tag: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher Tag: 174879

Relativily new to Publisher. It may be staring me in the face, but how do
you insert decorative horizontal lines in a Publisher document?

Re: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher by John

John
Tue Mar 04 11:57:11 CST 2008

Maggie wrote:
> Relativily new to Publisher. It may be staring me in the face, but
> how do you insert decorative horizontal lines in a Publisher document?
=============================
Select the Line tool on the left of your
screen and left click/drag to create the
line.

Holding your Shift key will help make
the line horizontal.

If you want the selected line to be more
detailed...click the Line/Border Style
button at the top of your screen and
choose the style you like.

Once you have a line you are satisfied
with you can select it and Copy/Paste as
many instances of it as you wish.

--

John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

Re: how do I draw horizontal lines in publisher by Mary

Mary
Tue Mar 04 12:37:55 CST 2008

You can also use BorderArt. Collapse the BorderArt until it has the appearance
of one line. There are tons of decorative elements on the Office web site.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/FX101321031033.aspx?pid=CL100570201033
--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com

"Maggie" <Maggie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:234EF998-126A-4569-9909-BA7D5F79E4A3@microsoft.com...
> Relativily new to Publisher. It may be staring me in the face, but how do
> you insert decorative horizontal lines in a Publisher document?