I have been publishing books for decades, using all MS Word versions, before that a whole lot of typing. I have done genealogies & transcriptions of census, marriage bonds.
Use Google & you will find all kinds of free tips, tricks & instructions for MS Word 7, which has powerful indexing capabilities, great spell check, search & replace, easy to insert pages or objects. YouTube has lots of tutorials, Microsoft.co m has oodles of help. Think back to high school/college & start with an outline or table of contents. MS Word is just a fancy-dancy typewriter. *Save often & make & work on copies and/or versions. *Try to get all your text finished. Then start with your inserts & pictures *.* For genealogies I usually make each generation a separate chapter *(insert page break)*. I create an rtf report from Legacy & then do all the editing in MS Word. In my opinion, sentences in Legacy are stilted & often redundant. But Legacy produces the very *best reports* of any software out there. Test drive several of them & then decide the one you like. Sorry, Legacy - but in my humble opinion, Legacy Publishing Center is complicated & a whole lot of unnecessary work. I print pictures or drawings, on photo-paper to insert into my master copy. I group objects - before or after - each pertinent chapter, rather than within each chapter. However, there are so many different ways of handling pictures, objects. Try out a few. Within Word - so many options, size, placement, borders - Before you start, you should decide how you are going to publish - a bound book, printed pages with holes to put in a binder or an ebook & so on. A bound book has many limitations & restrictions, if that is the choice, work with your publisher before starting. Pages for a binder - search around for deals on paper. I would suggest at least a 28 pound (I like brilliant or bright white) & already punched holes. Pictures, maps & text, look so much better on heavy paper. On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 12:14 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I use MS Word 2007. A number of months ago somebody in the LUG mentioned > limitations or problems with MS Word while assembling a book, and suggested > another word processing program (possibly an open-source one). I do not > remember the original question put the LUG, or the alternative word > processing program. > > My basic question is whether others have had problems preparing printed > books in MS Word. If so, which alternative word processing program would > they suggest? I get nervous about doing complex things on computers, so try > to foresee and prevent problems, rather than sorting out messes later on. > > I have been gradually preparing pages in MS Word, to be later inserted > where Place Holder pages have been set aside via the Legacy Publishing > Center. In them, I have inserted high resolution photos, maps etc. Could > large file sizes cause problems e.g. Does MS Word have a small clipboard or > memory which does not handle rearranging chapters or pages with high > resolution images? > > I presume that when you save a book in the Publication Center as an RTF > file, it would be compatible with any word processing program. > > When everything is just right, I intend to save the whole book as a PDF > file before printing. > > John > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/ > mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >
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