Re: Newsletter software suggestions


"TC" <no-spam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm writing some small stuff for a non-profit org. I have MS Word and
> an app that converts Word to PDF. We want to distribute from the web
> via PDF and mail a few to those without a computer.
>
> MS Word does not seem to be newsletter friendly, nor am I sure the pdf
> converter would work as expected for a newsletter. Any suggestions on a
> quality newsletter application that I can covert to pdf and possible
> html?
>
> TIA!

Open up MS Word. Go to Format and select Columns. Select the number of
columns you want on the newsletter. If pictures are giving you problems,
you can resize pictures to fit in the columns or you can first type in all
the text, add the pictures where you want and then format the columns around
the pictures. Word will then format around the pictures.*

If you are trying to get banner headlines, with columns, first type in the
headline, in the appropriate font, and then select the text area below the
headlines to format into columns.

You might want to "justify" the columns which stretches and compressed the
sentences, just enough so that all the sentences appear to be about the same
width.

It's not that I'm an expert, but in my experience, all the word processing
software works pretty much the same.

James....
*Some people, including this poster, occasionally get cute and insert some
tables and then, depending on what is desired, use the tables and cells to
control the look and feel. Like I said, it's cute, but it's usually not
necessary...


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