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[brickred]

can anybody tell me the trick for locking text onto a page in Word? I am creating a recital program for a recital this weekend and I always struggle with the layout, because every time I add/delete something, the layout of my entire program jumps around. In the past I've just muscled through it and tweaked the thing to death, but there HAS TO BE AN

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[nevers]

i wish i could help but i would never use word for layout for this reason. any way you can use a real layout program like indesign?

[brickred]

I don't have InDesign on my computer and this recital program has to be done this week. Plus, I've never used it before :) it's somewhat reassuring to know that you have this problem too, though! uuugh.

[nevers]

hmm. any way you can use cut and paste? that's what i'd do as a zinester :)

[nevers]

is it that when you have two columns, you don't want the first column to affect the second? or are you having problems across pages? cause ctrl+enter puts the text at the top of the next page no matter what happens on the page before it. but i dont know if there's an equivalent for columns.

[brickred]

I don't care about columns, because the only "columns" are each half-page. (does that make sense? the only column break is where the page fold is). I didn't know that ctrl-enter trick. I've been fiddling with text boxes but I've never used them before. my ms word skills suck.

[nevers]

ah, i do ctrl-enter all the time in MS editing cause i want each new section to start at the top of a new page.
i haaaate using a program inefficiently. this sort of thing happens to me a lot with indesign (and in html). it is so frustrating to waste so much time muscling through it.. and i don't want to pay to take a class, and when i look at books they always start with SUCH basics that i am too frustrated to make my way patiently through them and actually learn things. anyway yeah i sympthize.

[onion_skins]

Try using Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/), which is much like indesign, except that it's free. Granted, you'd still have to learn to use it, but it's a pretty user friendly program.