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Gregath Publishing e-zine
Volume 7, Number 6
June, 2008
Helping writers, genealogists and computer users of all kinds
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Please note that while an effort to generalize much of this text has been made, some references to "we, our, etc." still occur and much of the information provided applies to The Gregath Publishing Company and may not with other printer/publishers. ALWAYS double check with your printer/publisher on every detail.

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Table of Contents
You may click on each department below to go directly to that article. At the end of each article (if supported) is a link back to this contents.

What's It Mean?
Design Inspiration
Book Manufacturing Concepts
Marketing Advice
Genealogy Ideas
Computer Help

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What�s It Mean?
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Out of print: Titles that there are no more published copies for sale. Authors and publishers can "rescue" books from this designation by re-printing.

Relative Humidity: Ratio of water vapor in the air to the amount present at the same temperature if the atmosphere were fully saturated. This effects durability and permanence.

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For other printing, publishing, marketing lingo, check our glossary at http://www.gregathcompany.com/gloss.html
Run across a word that you don't understand? Try us - e-mail us your word, term or phrase and we will see if we can shed some light on the matter!
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Design Inspiration
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Audio for CD/DVD books and hybrids:

When making personal CD's it is sometimes enticing to use commericial music. With today's technology it's really easy to pull our favorite songs off our own CD's. However, none of this music should be used if you are selling the books, or making lots of gift copies because that is Copyright theft without Copyright release. Not all is lost though, there is music of all sorts that can be found online that you can use. An online search for public domain music or royalty-free music will find several sites for free or low-fee music. One place to start is http://www.archive.org.

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This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/publish/design/digital.html
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Book Manufacturing Concepts
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When you have text that covers more space than you want in a manuscript, what can be done?

More advanced level space savers:

Alter line spacing (MS Word instructions follow):

Under spacing (little over half way down) you will find "line spacing" to the right - it defaults to single.
Click the down arrow to the right of "single" and click "exactly".

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This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/FAQ\manuscript.html
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Marketing advice
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Genealogy ideas
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When searching online, never forget to try more than one search engine.

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Have a tip? e-mail us
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Computer aid!?! - MS Office - Format Paint
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A good thing (in my book) is when you can get away with setting variables once and not having to do it again. To that end, I bring up the "format paint" option.

If you have a paragraph (or several) that are formatted just right and one (or more) that are not. Try using format paint:

Place your cursor in a paragraph that is formatted great.

Go up and click the button, just right of "paste".

Next, highlight all the text you want formatted properly. This should make the highlighted text format correctly as you have "painted" it with the great format.

This doesn't work with all formatting items, especially the advanced ones, but it does most everything found on the formatting tool bar - font size, type, underline, etc.

The paint only works for the next cursor placement. If you want to repeat the format paint - such as changing the person headline on each page, double click the format paint button. Everywhere your cursor highlights will reflect the new format until you either hit your Esc key, or double click the paint button again.

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Note: All references to "click" are using the left mouse button unless otherwise noted.
Have a question or tip? e-mail us We may be stumped, but either way you'll get a personal reply.
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About this e-zine
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