Graphic People - I need help!

macman

I'm with you now-you were using the scan as a positional guide to place the photo...
No doubt Bowling can help you with the cursor issue.

Drea

Thanks for the help guys, I appreciate this. I've never had to use Word in this way before

Almost there now, although the photo position moved when I swapped to the colour printer :rotfl: but I can mess around with that some more. Can't believe how long this has taken!

Bowling_4_Gold

Drea wrote: »

That is what I am doing. I scanned in the paper to know where to position everything. I was always deleting the scanned picture afterwards.

Turns out text boxes are my friends. But now I can't get the thing to have a second page as the cursor is at the top and pushes everything onto the second page if I create a page break :rolleyes:

Soo close.

If my suggestion didn't work, try making all the images on your page 'Behind text' if they aren't already by going into the format menu. My other suggestion is that between paragraphs, you don't press 'Enter', you press Shift + Enter. This keeps the content in the same paragraph and should help with your page break issues. Sorry, but I'm not that familiar with 'Page Breaks', but am currently revising them!!

EDIT: sorry, I am thinking of the wrong thing. Just realised what they are lol...

Page breaks
Specifies whether to view the page breaks within a defined print area.

Drea

Finally, I am done

Thanks everyone for the help. I have just kept it on two documents as I couldn't get the pages to work right but it gets the job done

converse

Drea wrote: »

Excuse me? I am actually very competent on the computer if I had a graphics program to use. Word may have additional features to use photos but it isn't the best thing to use to do what I am trying to do. I have used Paint shop pro and photoshop since I was about 11 years old.

On top of that, this is not my job. This should be our printers job, but the boss is trying to save pennies.

But you thought white was a printing ink (it's rare in commercial printing, never in desktop/business printing), and can't centre, fade or word wrap in Word - all very basic tasks a GCSE student would know.

Sorry but I think you need some training too.

Drea

converse wrote: »

But you thought white was a printing ink (it's rare in commercial printing, never in desktop/business printing), and can't centre, fade or word wrap in Word - all very basic tasks a GCSE student would know.

Sorry but I think you need some training too.

The only thing I didn't know there was that white didn't print off. But then, I don't tend to print huge amounts in white often so I wouldn't really would I.

I certainly can centre, fade and word wrap, not quite sure what makes you think I can't.

And what are you basing your opinion that I need training on? I have worked here for over a year and this is the first and probably only time I have/will be asked to do something like this.

Like I said, we normally have printers for our brochures but as this is just for a single property he asked me to have a mess around with it and see what I could come up with.

I don't appreciate you being so rude when I was simply asking for a bit of help. Which I am sure that everyone needs in their job every once in a while

I don't think that anyone can come along when they don't even know what my job actually entails and tell me I need training :rotfl: