How can I design a Christmas card using Word 2000?

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Many things are possible in Word that are not advisable. This is one of
them. You would find the task much easier in Publisher, PrintMaster, Print
Shop Deluxe, or any of a number of dedicated greeting card software
applications.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Is it possible to use Word 2000 to design and print Christmas cards?
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If you're planning on a half-fold card (folding the card in half once,
for example to make an 8.5" x 5.5" card on Letter paper), use a
borderless table or text boxes on two landscape pages. One page is the
front and back of the card (back to the left, front to the right) and
the other page is the inside of the card. This is easier if your
printer supports duplex printing; otherwise you'll have to flip the
paper between printing one side and the other (experiment with plain
paper until you figure out which way to flip it).

If you're thinking of a quarter-fold card, don't use Word. While it's
possible, it's so painful as to be not worth the effort. For one
thing, you need to print the outside rotated 180 degrees from the
inside, which is a nasty job in Word (see
http://www.gmayor.com/rotate_text.htm).

In either case, I highly recommend investing about $20 in a dedicated
greeting-card program, which has the proper tools to do the job and
comes with tons of clip-art and more fonts. For example, look at
www.broderbund.com.
 
For a half-fold card, I strongly recommend newspaper-style columns instead.
They are not subject to the formatting restrictions of tables or text boxes.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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