Assignment 2 Guide (Alice Part II)

Making a Template
Delete the main text (not the title page) and the Alice pictures you had included. Leave the maths symbols.
Save the empty document and choose Word template.

Testing the template.
You will have some random text supplied in a file called ipsumlorem.txt
Open that and copy all the text into your template document, starting on the second page (i.e. leaving the title intact.) It should spread out creating several pages, each with the correct header and page numbers and symbols displayed.
Save that file as a normal Word document with a different name.

More changes to the A5 draft

Some work is necessary on the images you used in the document. If you used the ones supplied then these instructions apply to all of them. You may be able to adjust some other images that you got from elsewhere with similar techniques.

First change the font as required - reduce it and choose a different font.

Transparent background

First make the background of the image (in the case of the supplied images it is white). Make this colour transparent or see-through. Use Picture Tools > Format>Recolor

Use Set transparent Color in this menu

Now, any background should show through.

Shadow

This can be added using either the Picture Format tools (there are some presets available that may be suitable) or you may prefer to make your own effect by editing the image in Serif PhotoPlus, exporting it as a PNG or GIF (to retain the transparency) and the inserting it as a new image.

Wrapping

This is all about how the text moves around an image. Usually, when you first insert an image it is either In Line With Text so that text stops above it and starts again below it, or the image is treated like a Square or rectangle and the text follows straight lines around it.

Right click on an image and select Text Wrapping > Edit Wrap Points.

This will show a red outline with little nodes you can move.

The text will now follow your new outline.

A new cover page

Find a new image that is big enough and suitable for a front cover illustration. You can either set this to be shown behind the existing title text on the front page or edit the image in Serif PhotoPlus and add the text to it. Save this file again with a different name.

The end result could be like this.

And this is what the completed document might look like: