MERGE PAGES

There are several ways to setup your Merge Pages in Telitor MS WORD. I will try to convey one easy and expeditious method that I have actually tried myself.

I edited a transcript. I had also defined the speakers using the Review Notes ( that button with the magnifying glass on it :).

I pulled down the File menu and selected New (file). I was presented with a bunch of choices (document types) and I picked "Blank Document". Clicked OK and a nice clean blank page was presented to me. No line numbers, margins. . . nothing in my way.

I typed in the template of the Title Page inserting a < (left caret or "less than" symbol) wherever I wanted the cursor to stop for various variable names, etc.

When I wanted text to be indented, I first just typed it on the let margin, then I used the very convenient "Increase Indent" button of the Format toolbar and pushed it in place.

In my case I did all 3 pages: the Title, the Appearances, and the Index of Exhibits.

So now I had my Top/Top (or Title/Title) pages.

I pulled down the File menu and selected the Save As command. In the Save as Type I selected Rich text format (*. rtf ) In the Save in: (top) pull down box I navigated to the ... \Files. folder. . until "MergePages" appeared in the box. Clicked OK. From the File menu I closed that document and I was back in my transcript.

I clicked on the Utilities [Utils] button of the StenoLink™ toolbar and selected Merge Pages. The file that I had just created appeared there, so I double clicked it and voila' there were my 3 top Pages.

But there were 2 problems: Word had put some 40 plus line numbers on the left margin and a box around my Title Page. So here is what I did.

I highlighted the 3 pages. Went to the File menu, Page Setup, Layout. Picked "Selected text" in the "Apply to" box, then clicked Line Numbers. . . and uncheck the Line Numbering box. Got back to my transcript.

The Title Page did not look good with a BOX around it, so I decided to remove it. I highlighted the Title Page pulled down the Format, Borders and Shading, Page Borders, selected "This section - First Page only" in the Apply to box, and clicked OK.

That was it. Well, it seems a lot, but it is actually quite simple.