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@nom.de.plume.com> wrote in message news:291220070951150357%helpful_harry@nom.de.plume.com... > In article <xQ2dj.99856$GV4.71323@trnddc05>, "Claude Balls" > <claudeballsjr@REMOVEyahoo.com> 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 document with a series of A5 pages > (for example) and creates a new document > 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 document. > > 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 hardships ;o)
