Updates
I have managed to update the Dirk Maggs website for production year 2001 and 2003. For some reason that I have yet to work out the layout on pages that I am sure I had sorted out are now all wrong with all the headings all hard over to the left-hand side, why this is I just don't have a clue.
Any way these two years all the production pages where looking okay as of this post on my blog.
So that of course means that the next time that I go and have a look they will be broken again!
Showing posts with label word 2003. Show all posts
Showing posts with label word 2003. Show all posts
30 January, 2010
18 February, 2008
Plans that go wrong
So I had this great plan, I would convert an exsisting manuscript to 8.5*11 so that it the right size to be printed in hardback.
Step one, the converting was in the end okay as it only took a few hours and it looked good at the end of it all.
Step two, now thats when things started to go off the rails in a real big way. The upload to LULU was okay and that worked. The next step converting the document into a printable PDF did not go right, in fact it failed. Now the big problem is that I don't know why the conversion failed as LULU don't say why the document failed, they just say that it failed, yeh I know so useful.
So I am at a loss what to do...
I think I shall have another look at the Dirk Maggs book the drafts that I have done so far....
I last thjought I did have was to try a differant wp programme to se if that is the problem. I normally use word 2003 nice and old and it mostly works and so should be without any major problems.
Step one, the converting was in the end okay as it only took a few hours and it looked good at the end of it all.
Step two, now thats when things started to go off the rails in a real big way. The upload to LULU was okay and that worked. The next step converting the document into a printable PDF did not go right, in fact it failed. Now the big problem is that I don't know why the conversion failed as LULU don't say why the document failed, they just say that it failed, yeh I know so useful.
So I am at a loss what to do...
I think I shall have another look at the Dirk Maggs book the drafts that I have done so far....
I last thjought I did have was to try a differant wp programme to se if that is the problem. I normally use word 2003 nice and old and it mostly works and so should be without any major problems.
14 February, 2008
Dirk Maggs Book Part 8
As you can see with the last few posts to this blog I have some how found the time to do a bit more of the Dirk Maggs book.
One thing that I have been looking at is how to produce an index in word 2003. From what I have seen so far and read the index does not always work.
The searches that I have done so far say that there are 2 ways of creating the index, one where you mark each word and the other you use something called a cordex?
See I can't even spell it let a lone know how to use it.
More reading is needed me thinks.
I think for my Dirk Maggs book that a very full index will be the way to go.
I have read that you can have more than 1 index, and I am thinking at this time that a names index and a productions index might be good ideas, the only thing is at this time I don't yet know how you do multi indexes in the same document, or even if such a thing is possable in word 2003.
One thing that I have been looking at is how to produce an index in word 2003. From what I have seen so far and read the index does not always work.
The searches that I have done so far say that there are 2 ways of creating the index, one where you mark each word and the other you use something called a cordex?
See I can't even spell it let a lone know how to use it.
More reading is needed me thinks.
I think for my Dirk Maggs book that a very full index will be the way to go.
I have read that you can have more than 1 index, and I am thinking at this time that a names index and a productions index might be good ideas, the only thing is at this time I don't yet know how you do multi indexes in the same document, or even if such a thing is possable in word 2003.
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