Microsoft Publisher Nerds.... In Here! Need Help!

[GiovanniC]

I need to find a way to do something that's probably really simple.

Okay, I'm drawing rectangles here, and they need to share the same border. But when I draw them with the "Snap To Objects" setting on, the rectangles get drawn together but they each have a separate border. Thus, if I have a square or rectangle with a border that is 2 points wide, the little "Kashmir" zone is 4 points wide. I need the "Kashmir" zone to be 2 points wide.

Can anyone help?

[davsand]

1. I usually use Pagemaker, but...

The easiest option might be to layer the objects so that one is in front of the other. Can you do that in Publisher?

if you can't layer (and I thought I remembered you could do that!) an alternative might be overlaying a white line (or whatever background color you are using) over the top of one border to make the stroke appear less wide where it overlaps. It involves a huge amount of magnification and precision to get it just right, but it would at least minimize that overly wide stroke where the two boxes join...

I do hope somebody on here is more familiar with Publisher than I am!!! Maybe they can solve it for you!


Laura

On edit: if you do layer those boxes, you need to be sure you have the fill on the front box set to solid so it isn't a transparent box or else the stroke will show thru!

:)

[GiovanniC]

2. I'm Going To Have a Lot of These Rectangles

Bordering each other and I simply can't do the white line thing. I'll try to see what I can do about Object Order and layering, but one would think this should be a really simple thing to do.

[davsand]

3. Are your rectangles uniform?

Can you group the two once you get them the way you want them then copy and past them as you need them?

I'm so sorry this has not had more responses--I'm afraid I've not been much help here! I do hope somebody has a better idea for you!

Best of luck with it! I just hate problems like this one--and it seems like I run into about one of them a month that will leave me sitting and scratchin my head...


Laura