Strange request but is it poss ?

[grahamdvd]

Hi all
I have a jukebox title card program in Microsoft Word,( it lets you
make your own little cards telling you the records you put on a old
jukebox )
it has a fixed table background and it lets you add text to each card
in the spaces in the tables.
I want to make the cards longer, if i grab the corner of the table to
expand them, it only expands the text part not the background table.
If i grab the background table and expand it the text stays where it is
and does not expand with it .
Is there a way to merge them both together then expand them both
together ?
Or is there a way to change the format it is saved in and i could open
it up in a photoshop software and expand it in there thanks

 

[Graham Mayor]

See http://www.gmayor.com/convert_labels_into_mail_merge.htm which will
explain how to extract the data from the table. Create a new table and use
it as the basis for a mailing label merge -
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_labels_with_word_xp.htm or
http://www.gmayor.com/merge_labels_with_word_2007.htm

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[grahamdvd]

Hi all
I have a jukebox title card program in Microsoft Word,( it lets yo
make your own little cards telling you the records you put on a ol
jukebox )
it has a fixed table background and it lets you add text to each car
in the spaces in the tables.
I want to make the cards longer, if i grab the corner of the table t
expand them, it only expands the text part not the background table.
If i grab the background table and expand it the text stays where it i
and does not expand with it .
Is there a way to merge them both together then expand them bot
together ?
Or is there a way to change the format it is saved in and i could ope
it up in a photoshop software and expand it in there thanks

Hi this is the link
http://home.wanadoo.nl/mwe.roos/documenten/titlestripsredoldie.doc
The cards are about 220mm when you print them , I wanted the strip o
cards 300mm.
I can put the songs on them but can not stretch the complete card . No
bothered about the text streching as well as long as it stays on th
correct line. thank

 

[Graham Mayor]

What you have here is a graphic overlaid across a table. It is simple enough
to stretch the graphic. Select the table and cut it to the clipboard
(CTRL+X). Select the graphic, right click > format > object > size. Uncheck
the 'lock aspect ratio' button then increase the width to (say) 104%. Paste
back the table from the clipboard (CTRL+V) then adjust the width of the
table to match the graphic.
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[grahamdvd]

Hi thanks for that !
I got the graphic enlarged, and then pasted the text back over the top
when I try to resize the text table it will not enlarge all of it t
cover the enlarged graphic, I pull it one way and the bottom is no
covered and then pull it another way ! Is there a way to enlarge th
text table so it grows in proportion to the enlarged graphic ?
If i pull the top only the top text table grows and its all out o
proportion to the graphic ! not sure if that makes sense ! thank
again

 

[Graham Mayor]

You should only need to set the column width - Right click the table > table
properties > column > set the width of each cell to the required amount.

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[grahamdvd]

Hi thanks again.. nearly there >>>

I righted clicked the text table and the properties came up, is there
way as in the graphic to set the height of the total text table i
percentage , I made the graphic 120 % but the text properties , seem
to let you only set each row or column not the whole table many thank
again

 

[Graham Mayor]

You can set the options for the whole table at once if you select the whole
table. I had assumed that you were only changing the width so you only had
two columns to deal with? With the graphic at 120% you would need a column
width of about 9.1cm. If you have changed the height of the graphic by 120%
then you would need a row height of 'exactly' 1.03cm. 'Exactly' here being
the row height option rather than the actual height of the row which would
need to be about 1.03cm.

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