Travel Planning Binder...Help!

[jennc27]

My trip to WDW is coming up fast. I think it is in 21 days, but who's counting?

I am working on making a travel planning binder. I have everything typed into word documents, but they are so plain looking.

I am looking for subject dividers and since I have two binders to print I need ink friendly designs. I have spent the last two days looking at all the great designs here, but they take to much ink. Could anyone help me with this?

I plan on printing everything onto 4 X 6 index cards and placing them into a 4 X 6 Photo Book that I found at Wal-Mart for $1.00.

I am looking for:
Daily Itinerary & Touring Plans
Reservations
Dining Reservations
Park Hours
Dining credits
Day 1 through Day 9

The other options is some great clip art to add to the word document. I have tried to save some from photobucket and 4share, but they have turn out blury when I added them to my word document. Any adivce?

Thank you for the help.

 

[jtanddolly]

Go to www.disneyclips.com or www.disney-clipart.com to find clip art that you can manipulate and put in front of other artwork without having a white box behind it.

Cut and paste the pictures you are interested into word.

When you right click on the picture, a picture toolbar will come up towards the top of your screen. In the toolbar is a picture with lines and a black dog that says text wrapping when you point your mouse at it. Left click on the icon and then a drop down box will appear. In the drop down box you will see two things to use for your pictures one is "behind text" and the other is "in front of text" these two will help you to layer your images on top of each other.

Also in the picture toolbar in the same dropdown box is an icon for "square" if you click on this icon...you will be able to move the picture all over the screen to where you want to place it.

You can manipulate your pictures making them smaller or bigger by pointing at the corners or middle edges then right click and drag the image to make it the size you want.

Text Box

First copy and paste the image you want to add a name, word or words to.

Next make sure that your cursor is below the image that you want to insert a text box over.

Then look for the tab at the top of word that says "insert".
Scroll down and click on "text box".

A big box will show up on the screen that says text box...ignore this box but look for your mouse that will show up as an +. Move the +/mouse to where you want your text box to go then left click and drag the mouse to make the size box you want for the area you want the wording to go.

Then go back up to the top of word and click on "format".
Then click on "text box".
Look for the tab that says "colors and lines".
In the fill section make sure the color box says "no color"
In the line section make sure the color says "no line".

Then the background will show through behind whatever text you type in the box and there won't be a line around the text box.

Then you can type whatever you want inside the box by clicking inside the box and choosing font and size.

If the box isn't the right size you can drag the corners and sides to make it the right size.
This is great to use when you find a DISign that you like and want to add a name to it. For example, Natalie's great Mickey Heads...she has a lot of blank ones in her shared file that you can add names to.

Borders:

You can add borders to your pictures, text boxes or the page itself by going to the top of word and right clicking on "format" in the drop down box you will see "borders and shading" the borders will allow you to add a border to most anything and will let you choose the size of the line and color. The shading will allow you to color the entire background if you don't want a white background.

 

[jennc27]

Thank you for the links to the clip art.

 

[MeeshKapeesh]

Thanks for the links!