How To Make A Plan On Paper

[DJHawkes]

Hi, I need to make an A3 plan using 2 sheets of A4. I would like to print off each sheet to make an A3 graveyard plan that shows 34 rows of graves with 44 graves in each row. How am I best doing this, I hav done the handwritten one but it looks confusing as I need to add notes etc. If I do a printed one just showing small rectangles for each plot, then I can use highlighters to create
another page for the key. Anyone any simple way of doing this? I have the right programme i think but not sure which!

[naomi24]

Excel.

[Zacs-Master]

I would do this in excel and make 34 boxes along the top and then simply copy these into the rows below 44 times. You can then window around it all and set your printer to A3.

I have assumed you know a little about excell.

[jackthehat]

Do you have a 'print-shop' anywhere near where you live/work?
You can design it on a A3 sheet and e-mail it to them to print out......that's what I do with my work-plans.

[McMouse]

A quick solution is to go to a print shop and pay for an A3 copy.

[naomi24]

Her printer likely won't take A3, Zacs. Not many do - but in Excel she can highlight the bits she wants to print on each of her two sheets and join the results.

[Barmaid]

If you do it in excel you can use different font colours. You could then save it as an A3 .pdf and send it to a print shop as JacktheHat says.

[naomi24]

Yes, emailing it to a local office supplies store is a good idea. I suggested that for someone else here - and I've done it myself.

[Zacs-Master]

OK, so window round half of it and print that at A4, then do likewise with the other half.

[DJHawkes]

my OH does have an A3 printer and so actually that's a plan, I didn't think beyond actually making it but if i can make it in excel as A3 then send it to his mac then i will try that, thanks. I don't use excel at all except at work and they are already designed worksheets, i don't think i have ever made one myself, but i shall give it a go,

[Prudie]

Excel is the first choice (well actually I'd use Visio) but a table in Word might be easier if you use it a lot.

[boxtops]

Excel's not difficult, dotty, and you can change the cell sizes to indicate individual graves

[grasscarp]

Are you a member of the mafia? Just wondered why you need to plan so many graves.

[DJHawkes]

I have the sextons book for Christ Church, Todmorden, I'm using it to create a graveyard plan to establish exactly where my great great grandmother Mary Ann Bancroft is buried. It has worked, because using the sextons book, along with the MIs I have been able to do the plan, put mary ann's grave in, then identify all the surrounding graves that actually have an existing stone. From that I have established exactly where her unmarked grave is on paper. Now i just need to get back there to physically locate it . There us a double plot directly behind hers with a large headstone and so it will be easy, hopefully! Now I have worked out how to do this plan, I'm going to do one for cross stone next to identify where my other great great grandmother's grave is.

[grasscarp]

I admire your achievement and methodical mind.