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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
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> 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)