Scaling entire documents - desperately trying to spare myself hours of tedious reformatting!

[Ikkeboeken]

I have several Word documents, 33 in all, each representing a chapter of a
new book about European Cup Soccer. I want to set up the book using
QuarkXpress, creating first a book, then individual project files to be used
for each chapter. Into each project file I can import the text from the
corresponding Word document, maintaining it's original layout, including
font sizes, weights, tabs, tables, etc... The problem is that the Word
documents are all nicely laid out for printing on A4 paper in the portrait
position. The eventual book is to be about 40-50% smaller.

Is there a way to scale an entire document in Word, without resorting to
changing each and every font sizes and weights, etc...? If so, I can easily
reduce the size of the document proportionally and then import the results
into the newly created QuarkXpress project files. I'm desperately trying to
spare myself hours of tedious reformatting.

Thank you in advance...

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Discussion ongoing in microsoft.public.word.pagelayout. Please do not post
separately to multiple groups, as people trying to help you waste their time
duplicating answers.

 

[Ikkeboeken]

Pardon me for saying so, but who is to say that the same persons subscribe
to each newsgroup. What would have been bad form would have been if I had
cross posted to several newsgroups, which I did not do. Instead I looked for
newsgroups which seemed to possibly relate to my question. Had I been able
to define which group this might have been specifically, then I would have
probably already known the answer and not needed to post at all. Read the
FAQ's yourself. Meanwhile, if you don't have something useful to
contribute... piss off!

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Well, you just earned a spot in my blocked senders list. Good luck.
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[Ikkeboeken]

thank you chuck. less dribble.

Well, you just earned a spot in my blocked senders list. Good luck.
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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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chapter resorting

 

[Guest]

Don't forget to add "less answers to your questions" to your list. Charles is probably one of the most knowledgable in this group. Good luck

----- Ikkeboeken wrote: ----

thank you chuck. less dribble

 

[Ikkeboeken]

kill file me too... and move on. get a clue. is using word well how you
define yourself. if so, i'm very sorry for you. please push away from your
keyboard and go outside for awhile.

it was a simple question. it did not require being flamed, especially as
special care was taken not to cross post. read the faq's yourself... or ask
chuck to read them to you. i'm sure he'd enjoy the ego rub. my job,
meanwhile, will be to get over the hurt of your scorn, and to educate my
customers to use a tool... any tool... that is more appropriate for this
purpose than word.

now, speaking of faq's. perhaps you could learn to trim your replies so that
all of the garbage and wasted bandwidth doesn't follow you.

Don't forget to add "less answers to your questions" to your list.

Charles is probably one of the most knowledgable in this group. Good luck.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Actually, cross-posting is preferable, for a variety of reasons. See
http://word.mvps.org/FindHelp/Posting.htm, esp. #4.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Word Heretic]

Is there a way to scale an entire document in Word, without resorting to
changing each and every font sizes and weights, etc...?

No. Sorry.

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[Ikkeboeken]

please name one. most other newsgroups frown upon this. many disagree. one
is certain to offend someone that is being self righteous for self
righteousness' sake. faq's are suggested guidelines, not laws. when a mvp
lawyer comes on the scene you'd think these were articles of the
constitution or federal laws. if someone finds it offensive they should use
the scrollbar or the block sender killfile.

i asked a simple question. i count that i got nagged at by about 10 people,
and received a tip from only 1 or 2. great helpful people in the ms mvp
family! several of the people that nagged, nagged everywhere. what was their
rational for defending their constitution whilst breaking it in order to do
so?

it really doesn't matter. i don't use word that much at all anyway... hence
the question. meanwhile, now that i have my answer, 'that it is not
possible', i'll just skulk on out of here and let everyone continue with
their business.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The article I linked to spells out the reasons.

Did anyone mention the "Pages per sheet" and "Scale to paper size" options
in the Print dialog?

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Ikkeboeken]

well, actually i have discovered that there is, but thank you for...
replying.

 

[Word Heretic]

G'day "Ikkeboeken" <[email protected]>,

How?

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