Word 2008

Barks · 5 Aug 2013 at 15:25

Having a tear your hair out moment.

I've just spent 4 hours designing a leaflet in Word 2008 using one of the built in 'BROUCHURE' templates for 2 pages onto a page.

In Publishing Layout and print Layout it looks great and all fits perfectly on the dimensions of an A4 piece of paper.

If I go to print or save as a PDF however it just prints a zoomed in portion and cocks up the whole document. I've been playing for ages and I just can't get the thing to print or save as a PDF properly. Any ideas?

I don't know why MS ditched their Publisher application from the 90s, it was so much better than Word. Word is one of the worst, most unintuitive pieces of crap software I have ever used.

Barks · 5 Aug 2013 at 15:29

If I create a new blank page and paste the stuff in low and behold it pastes so that it is massive on the correctly setup A4 paper.

This is so frustrating. How I do just get the sodding thing to re-format the whole document so that it will print nicely onto an A4 bit of paper.

Barks · 5 Aug 2013 at 15:43

Barks · 5 Aug 2013 at 15:44

I think I'm going to just start the whole thing again from scratch.

Obviously the template was designed for an A3 document.

I just spent 15 minutes trying to resurrect the master pages tab because Word randomly decided to hide it in settings. I'm going to walk away from this computer before I lose the plot completely

Barks · 5 Aug 2013 at 17:27

Just popped down to the gym just let off some steam and going to work on it from scratch again. Will be a good opportunity to get all the formatting word perfect.

Cheers