At 20:45 12/11/2007 -0600, Robert Dailey wrote:
What would be the best way to split a page into 4 uniform sections?
I'm trying to make some invitation cards. I want to print 4 small
sized cards on 1 page and cut them out later.
Here's a suggestion:
o Go to Format | Page... | Columns and set the number of columns to 2.
o Adjust Spacing to create two columns to divide your page. You may
want to adjust the margins on the Page tab at the same time.
o Create your material, insert a column break, and copy your
material into the second column. You now have two, not four, copies
on the page.
o Print the page, turn the printed page around, and print the
material again the other way - to give the four copes that you need,
albeit in different orientations.
If you actually want to see all four copies at once on the screen:
o Go to Format | Page... | Columns and set the number of columns to 2.
o Adjust Spacing to create two columns to divide your page. You may
want to adjust the margins on the Page tab at the same time.
o Go to Insert | Table... and insert a table of one column and six rows.
o With the cursor in the table, go to Table | Table Properties... |
Borders and select no borders.
o Select all the cells of the table, go to Table | Autofit > | Row
Height..., set the height (temporarily of all the rows) to that your
panels will need, and remove the tick from "Fit to size".
o Now drag the boundary between the second and third rows so that
the second row becomes a gutter across the middle of the page and the
third row just fits in the first column.
o Similarly drag the boundary between the fifth and sixth rows to
create the same arrangement in the second column. You now have four
identical useful areas separated by two smaller ones that you are
going to leave empty.
o Create you material in the first cell of the table and copy it
into the other three useful cells.
o This technique probably creates a spare page after the page you
are formatting and using, which you will not want to print. To avoid
this, you could give the table only five rows and enter the last
panel outside the table.
There are alternatives:
o Instead of formatting your page in columns, you could create a
table of three columns and three rows instead - again using four of
the cells and leaving the other five as spacers between the useful cells.
o Once you have your page in columns, you could insert four frames
to contain your text instead of using a table. The frames can be
adjusted in size and position to create the same effect.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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