Advice for preparing a long document

I believe John McGhie has already addressed these questions on the MacWord
group in another thread. "Sandra Jensen" and "SandJ" are the same person.
Sandra, if there are still unanswered issues, post back.

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On 11/9/04 7:56 AM, in article ,
"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:

[cross-posting to the MacWord group--there are cross-platform issues about
image formats, I believe]

On 11/9/04 3:51 AM, "Sandra Jensen" wrote:

Thanks Jezebel - very helpful.
I do have a further question about using graphics....

Just to be clear on my situation:
I'm working on a mac with Word 2004; my file will be emailed to others
on PCs; I don't have control over final printing; it's a long document
(about 300 pages). It will be converted to a PDF as well as printed
from the Word Doc (and probably imported into a page layout programme
for final production...how, I believe, this document should have been
created in the first place...but that wasn't my decision)

There are a number of images and graphics to be used in this
document. I will definitely only insert these once I've finished all
the rest of the formatting. However:

- What is the best file format to use? ( I can do all
converting/resizing myself in Photoshop) - I realize there will be a
conflict between image quality and bloating the document itself...
would PNG be the way to go? I've always thought EPS or TIFF, but I
believe these may be too heavy and not usuable by some versions of
Word. I could create an EPS as well and have it available in case it
is needed.


- How best to place/format the images in the document? I believe using
styles and inline with text is best, however I have set up a deep left
hand
indent to my body text, and I would like to offset some images so they
fall half in the text and half in the wide left margin, and have the
text run around the image. I will also need to place a caption or an
photo credit underneath the image ( none of which need to be
referenced by a TOC or elsewhere).

I believe floating graphics are difficult to control, as are text
boxes, which seem to be the solution to what I want to do. Is there
any other way?

thanks in advance,
Sandra