Plz help! tough ugent...
Yelson Hwo
I am a translator, got a job yesterday, which require me to tranlate a word
doc page by page accordingly:
1) Keep the original word doc,whose page size is A4, as it was, do not
change its layout and formatting(including the page, and its number), and
put it into the right half part of a A3 documents.
2) Insert the translated content into to left half part of the A3 documents,
align to its original language.
And I try use a 1 row 2 column table and programming a macro to do this:
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Sub mCopyContentToA3Doc()
Dim source As Document, target As Document, Pages As Integer, Counter As
Integer
Set source = ActiveDocument
source.Repaginate
Pages = source.BuiltInDocumentProperties(wdPropertyPages)
Set target = Documents.Open("c:\tmp\a3.doc")
Counter = 1
target.Tables(1).AllowPageBreaks = True
While Counter < Pages
source.Activate
source.Bookmarks("\page").Range.Copy
target.Tables(1).Cell(Counter, 2).Range.Paste
target.Tables(1).Rows.Add
source.Bookmarks("\page").Range.Cut
Counter = Counter + 1
Wend
source.Close wdDoNotSaveChanges
End Sub
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However, it can't fit my need, for:
1) it can't keep the original word page layout and its formatting.
2) the graphs have gone.
Anyone has idea about the solution, please help me, thanks a lot.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
I think you would be better off with a multirow table with one paragraph to
each row. You do not have to need to have the borders displayed so that to
the viewer they would not necessarily realise that each paragraph was in a
separate cell. You will definitely be able to keep the text in the two
languages synchronised better by doing that.
What I would do is open the original document and save it with a different
name (thus preserving the original). Then Select all of the text in the
document and from the Tables menu, use the Convert Text to Table option to
covert it to a 1 column table by selecting the "Separate Text at paragraphs"
option. (You may at this point want to go through and select some adjacent
rows and merge the cells to combine them if you wish.
Now, from the File>Page Setup menu, change the size of the paper to A3 and
the orientation to landscape. Your table should then appear on the left
hand side of the page. Select the table and then from the Table menu, use
Insert Column to insert a column on the left. By default, that column will
be the same width as the original. (You may want to insert another narrower
column between the two to give the appearance of a margin between the two
lots of text.
Please respond to the newsgroups for the benefit of others who may be
interested.
Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Yelson Hwo" <hy5...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Rob Schneider
I would suggest you take the simple approach.
1. Printout the original document on A4 paper.
2. Translate the doc and put the translation into a new document.
Insert page breaks into the new document which match up to the page
braaks on the the original document. If for a given page the
translation page is longer and spills over to a secondary page, then
reduce the font on that page only 1 point at a time until the full text
fix on one page (this lines up new from old).
3. Printout the new document on A4 paper
4. Tape the two A4 paper sheets for each "page" together side-by-side so
that they form an A3 paper.
5. If customer wants un-taped A3 paper, then photo copy onto A3 paper.
6. As last step try putting the old and new document into one new
document side by side for printout on A3.
Job done. This approach lets you focus on the translation which I would
guess is what you were hired for.
Robert M. Franz (RMF)
Yelson Hwo wrote:
[..]
> I am a translator, got a job yesterday, which require me to tranlate
> a word doc page by page accordingly:
> 1) Keep the original word doc,whose page size is A4, as it was, do
> not change its layout and formatting(including the page, and its
> number), and put it into the right half part of a A3 documents.
> 2) Insert the translated content into to left half part of the A3
> documents, align to its original language.
[..macro..]
> However, it can't fit my need, for:
> 1) it can't keep the original word page layout and its formatting.
> 2) the graphs have gone.
>
> Anyone has idea about the solution, please help me, thanks a lot.
I'd go with Rob for this: KISS (Keep it simple).
Bringing a translation in like this is tough enough: I'd go with two
word-windows side-by-side in two documents (if you have one of these 21'
flat screens :-)). Don't even think about joining these in Word,
beceause you'd certainly run into all kinds of troubles with styles and
fields so that you will probably have to duplicate your numbered styles.
And others, too, at least all styles that get picked up by fields on the
run (all headings for TOC, anything you might want to pick up with a
STYLEREF field, etc.). Much rather, if you need a file in the end and
not paper, create page-by-page EPS-files and bring them together in a
program that is up to the task (not sure I'd want to try this in a new
empty A3-Word document, might be possible though).
Anyway, the moment you are bound to the pagination of the original, you
might also investigate in DTP software.
Greetinx
.bob
..Word-MVP
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