Got a weird thing to show you, so tell all the boys and girls

[venta]

Once upon a time, there was a dance team that wanted a flyer. A nice, A4, tri-fold flyer. Dr Fiona heroically tackled it. Then she said sod this, Word is a fair bugger, I cannot get the columns to line up nicely on both sides of the paper.

Haha, I thought, I am so very clever, I will use a downloadable tri-fold flyer template from Office Online. And lo, I did, and it was also a fair bugger because it is completely un-customisable. You want three folds? Well, some of it will be bright orange. No other colour is available. Just bright orange.

After an awful lot of fiddling about, I finally had something I was at least not-unhappy with. And then I printed out a trial run, and it turns out the US-centric world of Office Online makes its tri-fold flyer templates for Letter sized paper. Not A4. Which I had not checked. I am, in fact, not so very clever after all. I imagine the template can be tweaked, but then it's back to the original problem of getting columns to line up manually. I haven't even successfully worked out how to get three evenly-spaced columns yet :( I've never liked Word.

Does anyone have... a tri-fold A4 template, a better knowledge of Word than I have, a burning desire to show off their graphic-design skills, or a large bottle of gin[*]?

Any assistance greatly appreciated.

Edit Or, of course, does anyone have a source of Letter paper, a colour/duplex printer that will handle it, and a generic willingness to assist in exchange for cake? (I have never owned a printer, I have no idea if they mostly do Letter...)

[*] Not strictly relevant, but I might stop caring about the flyer...

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

Am I just being a skinflint? Does any private individual who has to do very, very occasional bits of designwork have these tools?

[uitlander]

No, at £500ish a seat you're not being a skinflint. It's just a shame you don't have access to any of the above via work. Word isn't the nicest of things to tame for this sort of task.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I imagine the people who do this kind of thing at work anyway would have a very different approach. I really am a rank amateur in the design/DTP/Office-use stakes, having never had to do anything of the sort professionally :)

[exspelunca.livejournal.com]

Quark? (Puts up crossed forefingers to ward off evil). Come on, you must have learned most of the arrangements of curses you know from me when we went off hot metal