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Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Microsoft Publisher
From: Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:42:09 +0000
Good idea but Publisher is perfectly happy for the table to flow off the
edge of the paper!

On 29 November 2016 at 23:31, David Bell <david.w.bell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What about experimenting with the cell height to force the table to page
> break
>
> Not an authority btw
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On 29/11/2016 16:05, Jez Cunningham wrote:
>
>> Thanks Chris.  Yes, I'm currently doing two copy/pastes from one 'source
>> Excel spreadsheet' into two 'Publisher tables'.  It's just that I would
>> like a sort of automatic resizing.
>> I'll keep playing...
>> cheers
>> Jez
>>
>> On 29 November 2016 at 15:11, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>       I used Publisher just once to compare it with PageMaker, the result
>>> being that I uninstalled Publisher.
>>>
>>>       I know that you can do what you are attempting by going to PRINT in
>>> Excel and then creating a PDF file.  But, you can also copy and paste the
>>> "next page" rows and columns to another spreadsheet, then copy and paste
>>> each spreadsheet (now individual pages) into Word, Publisher, and
>>> PageMaker.
>>>
>>> Any Microsoft Publisher (2010) experts on the list?
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for a way to make rows of a table fill one page and then
>>>> flow
>>>> to the next. I know how to link text boxes so that excess text flows
>>>> into
>>>> another box but not how to do the same for a table.
>>>>
>>>> (The situation is that for our Church monthly events calendar we have a
>>>> template, currently with identical tables filling page 2 and page 3.  I
>>>> manually count rows and copy/paste from an Excel source into these
>>>> tables.
>>>> I have different numbers of rows of data to enter each month so I end up
>>>> deleting the blank rows in the second table on page 3. It would be neat
>>>> to
>>>> paste rows into the top of the table on page 2 and for the excess rows
>>>> to
>>>> automatically flow over to page 3.)
>>>>
>>>> It's far from being an essential but it's part of my continuous learning
>>>> scheme in retirement - otherwise known as "do something useful before
>>>>
>>> going
>>>
>>>> to the pub".
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
>>>       - Hunter S. Thompson
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