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    1. [FreeHelp] Extra-wide web pages -- Is there something I missed?
    2. J.A. Florian
    3. A dear online friend has no web making experience and is like most people unfamiliar with HTML, meaning, they don't realize just what is involved in making "a" page. (Like I was when I started - LOL). Often, submitters think that it should be no problem if their submission is in one Excel file of over 2,000 to 4,000 rows (and want me to make it into a "web page"). Or, that the submission is "extra-extra" wide, like two oversized book single pages (with both pages very wide--- such as the total open width of a large Court House docket book). For several months I've made and sent examples of how we could present data she has transcribed. But with A to O columns, there will be a right-side scroll no matter what I do. My friend hasn't liked my examples. I suggested we break the data into 2 webpages -- but she wants each person's data to be on one web page (meaning, every person would have A to O data for each person, with new rows for the next person). There are thousands of persons. She wants a first column to bear the original numbering for each person (adding to the width). When I tried explaining that any wide page would have a right-scroll, she just said she doesn't want it like that. She's so determined to fit all the columns on one page that her file is using a Font size 1 -- too small to read. Then, she said she wants users to be able to easily print the page--- and expects that I can make the web page in such a way to squeeze double-wide pages into a 8.5x11.5 sheet of printed paper (profile printing as well)---with a "1" font ! I tried using a real book as an example to say "I can't squeeze more onto a printed page than what the printed page will hold." These pages would be less wide than a Census, but pretty similar to the width of a Census Image. Just like I can't take a long photo the size of three 8x10s (over sofa photo frame) and reduce it to one 8x10 while still keeping the image large enough to see the content, I can't take over-sized tabular data and squeeze it down either. So, could someone here suggest anything else I can say to my friend to make it easier for her to understand why a web page won't do what she wants it to do? Thanks, Judy

    12/26/2010 07:50:29