Re: Two page spread tables in Word 97

[steve <steve -at- SOFTLINESYSTEMS -dot- COM>]

Excel does this perfectly without a great deal of fuss. Consider changing
tools just for those pages.

Regards,
Steven Ward              Email:   steve -at- softlinesystems -dot- com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Johnson <jjohnson -at- OPTUM -dot- COM>
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU <TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
Date: Monday, May 03, 1999 3:38 PM
Subject: Two page spread tables in Word 97


>I have some really wide and long tables to put in 8-1/2 x 11 pages.
>Landscape isn't wide enough to hold them. Foldouts are beyond our printing
>ability.
>
>Has someone cleverer than I am with Word 97 come up with a low maintenance
>way to make tables spread across two portrait pages? That is, a row that
>runs left to right across the 8-1/2 inch width of page two continues on
page
>three; a column that runs off the bottom of page two continues at the top
of
>page four.
>
>Low maintenance means something that won't crash Word and won't make us
>boneheads miserable from a lot of tweaking. Doing 11 x 17 with text boxes
is
>a possibility, but then getting the headers and footers and numbering to
>work, and getting everything to print right - I see trouble.
>
>Various archives did not reveal a solution.
>
>Since this is a tool and layout question, please respond off list.
>
>Many thanks.
>
>Jeff Johnson
>jjohnson -at- optum -dot- com
>
>
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