Re: Newsletter software suggestions

"Amused" <Amused@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "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.*
>

Word is definitely sub-par for such items, but I have had to use it in
the past to do some fairly major lay-out projects. Pictures inserted
directly are sizable, but not dragable. You can however, make them
dragable by first putting them in a text box. The Drawing toolbar
functions, including text box, is also useful for call-outs and
isolated and/or dragable sections of text. Tables can also be useful
for keeping left and right "column" items together, but they have
their own grouping problems, especially in regards to what will be
bumped from one page to another, and should be used cautiously. You
can go from single to double to more than double columns by using
section breaks, but Word has a nasty habit of arbitrarily changing
non-page end sections breaks to page end section breaks which is very
annoying. Double-clicking right on a section break can bring up it
characteristics so you can change it back, but sometimes you have to
do this so often you want to find whomever wrote the program and break
them.



Personally, I agree with Slyvia, Pagemaker is the way to go for
newsletters. But I've never tried InDesign, which seems to be the
most popular program at work these days.


Beth


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