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Posting a little word document in a word document

The_Glad_HatterThe_Glad_Hatter One Sly FoxUnderneath a Groovy HatRegistered User regular
edited April 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
So for this report i need a readable miniature version of a one page word document posted in another word document. So you can see an entire A4 page in miniature in the middle of my word document. Is there any way to do this besides scanning the printed page and importing that?
i've tried print-screen, but i couldn't get the text very legible.

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  • PheezerPheezer Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2007
    If you have anything that can convert a word doc to PDF you can paste the PDF into it. There is free software to do this but I don't know of any off hand.

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  • dsplaisteddsplaisted Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    CutePDF writer will let you "print" to a pdf document. It installs as a printer, and when you print to that printer a Save As dialog comes up where you can save the pdf. So you could use that to convert Word to PDF.

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  • EggyToastEggyToast Jersey CityRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    If you need it to look identical to the word document but scaled down, then yes, you need a PDF of it. Two ways to do that -- either place the PDF directly into word, or render the PDF into something like Photoshop at a very high resolution, and then size it to the dimensions that you want. That'll get you above and beyond the working resolution of a printscreen and allow you to have readable text.

    If you simply want to include the text as a text box, that's just insert>text box (and then format the text box to appear similar to the word file, with a smaller font). Depends on the purpose of the word document, though. If it's some sort of figure, you want the PDF option. If it's supposed to be secondary text, you probably want to go with the text box.

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    PDF's fail at high resolutions.

    This is what we do at work for excel sheets into reports.

    Highlight/Copy.

    Go to the document you want, Edit<Paste Special<Paste as picture

    This wins every time.

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  • The_Glad_HatterThe_Glad_Hatter One Sly Fox Underneath a Groovy HatRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    The paste as picture was a very cool feature indeed, but it didn't copy the headers and footers along.

    The convert to PDF one was perfect though. Thanks H/A!

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  • ZeonZeon Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Blaket wrote: »
    PDF's fail at high resolutions.

    This is what we do at work for excel sheets into reports.

    Highlight/Copy.

    Go to the document you want, Edit<Paste Special<Paste as picture

    This wins every time.

    Trust me, coming from someone who works with this shit for a living, youre screwing anyone who wants to extract the data from that excel sheet at a later date. Why not just link the excel spreadsheet?

    Go with the PDF. Proof quality PDF's are used for professional printing. Theyre pretty good.

    *edit* woops, i should have read to the end. Sorry.

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