Thanks again, Harry. I'll take a look at the plug-ins -- some look like
I could use them.
Too bad the program is not being taught at the night schools anymore. I
also have InDesign that I needed for one job a couple of years ago. I'm
sure it's "far superior" to Pagemaker, but for my purposes it is an
over-kill -- way too complicated. I'll just stick to this one.
Claude
"Helpful Harry" <helpful_harry@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In article <xQ2dj.99856$GV4.71323@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Claude Balls"
> <claudeballsjr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Harry. I'll give it a try. Simple question - what do the
> > plug-ins do?
>
> As in many other applications, PageMaker's plug-ins add functions to
> make things easier or automate complicated tasks. PageMaker comes with
> some and you can download more ... but many of them are fairly useless
> to most users.
>
> PageMaker's plug-ins are found in the Utilities -> Plug-ins menu.
>
> Some of the perhaps more useful ones to an average user are:
>
> Drop Cap Creates a drop cap - a larger letter that
> spans multiple lines of text
>
> Change Case Changes the case (upper case, lower case,
> etc.) of the selected text.
>
> Word Counter Counts the words in the selected text.
>
> Keyline Adds a border around the selected object
> with user defineable style / thickness,
> colour and distance from the object.
>
> Build Booklet Takes a do***ent with a series of A5 pages
> (for example) and creates a new do***ent
> with A4 sized spreads - when printed
> double-sided, sorted and folded / stapled
> you end up with a booklet with the pages
> in the same reading order as they were in
> the A5 sized do***ent.
>
> Personally I've only ever bothered with the last two of those.
>
> As well as Plug-ins there are Scripts, but these tend to be even more
> "useless" (or perhaps the word is "specialised for a particular use").
> These are seen and run via a palatte window you can display from
Window
> -> Plug-in Palattes -> Show Scripts. Other than a cursory "play", I've
> never wasted time with any of these.
>
>
>
>
>
> Helpful Harry
> Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hard****ps
;o)
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