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Old July 27th, 2004, 11:25 PM
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No Mike, they are not back up, they have gone down yet again, and the NNTP
has not even shown the light of day.


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Old July 28th, 2004, 01:16 AM
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David,

We kept trying to tell them not to drink HB around the servers.

Mike

°°MS-Publisher°° wrote:
No Mike, they are not back up, they have gone down yet again, and the NNTP
has not even shown the light of day.




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Old July 28th, 2004, 02:32 AM
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Mike exactly, I don't.

Certainly has not been a happy transition of servers.


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Old April 2nd, 2006, 07:09 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
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I went through the whole thread and found no reply on how to create a table
of contents other that manually.
Where do I find the "Edit Story in Word" feature in Publisher?

Anyone any ideas??

" wrote:

I am concerned, however, about the Table of Contents. I
gather this must be done manually as Publisher does not
have this capability built into the program like Word does.
That will be a huge task for 300 pages!



-----Original Message-----
Hi Georgia,

Based on the details you have supplied:

1. 300 Pages
2. 100 Photos
3. Tables
4. Excel Worksheets
5. Columnar
6. Output for Commercial Printer use

Microsoft Publisher is ideal for your job. Microsoft Word

is capable of such
a project as well, but the layout would be much more

difficult. Microsoft
Office Publisher 2003 includes some of the writing tools

you need, such as a
spell checker, auto correct, thesaurus and a full set of

formatting tools
for text, paragraphs baseline shifts, kerning, etc.. If

you require
extended tools, Publisher can be used along side Word for

creating table of
contents, index, word counter, etc. There is an "Edit

Story in Word" feature
in Publisher.

As far as layout goes, Publisher is object based. This

means you can place
your text and objects in any location you desire, set

wrapping objects, and
have objects locked or move inline with text.

I recommend using Publisher 2002/2003 as these versions

will store your
photos compressed, keeping the file size original, where

as previous
versions stored the images uncompressed and blew their

sizes way out of
control.

Another nice feature is that you can use Publisher 2003's

catalog merge
feature, which allows you to use a database of file

locations for photos and
merge them into Publications, allowing you to easily

update/change and
remove photos in your database and having them reflect in

your Publication.

You will have no issues adding Excel Worksheets or Word

Tables if need be.

I would recommend finding out how your printer prefers you

to layout and
prepare your publication. While Microsoft Publisher is one

of the most
widely known DTP programs out there, you will find that

not all printers
carry Publisher. All printers qualify for a free copy of

Microsoft Publisher
(if they don't have one already) so they can just take

your Publisher file
in its native format. Publisher has some excellent built

in printing tools.
If your printer requires a *.pdf output, Publisher is

capable of doing so by
using one of many free pdf printer drivers available for

download (unless
you are already using Adobe Acrobat, which in that case

you can use that for
exporting your Publisher file as a *.pdf). Publisher can

easily handle the
size of Publication you are producing as well as easily

export it to *.pdf.
Fantastic results are to be had!

Post back if you have any further questions.
--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
http://www.publishermvps.com
~pay it forward~

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.

"Georgia" wrote in message
...
Hello, I hope someone can provide me with some advice,

which Program
is best to use for a large publication of approximately

300 pages. It is for
a Departmental review which includes 18 divisions and I

originally thought
it should be done in Publisher and not Word. There will be

quite a number of
photographs, tables and importing of Excel worksheets. The

format will be
columnar.

Does anyone have any suggestions on which is the better

program to use for
this project?

Thanks,
Georgia



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Old April 2nd, 2006, 07:39 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
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Loes Weber was very recently
heard to utter:
I went through the whole thread and found no reply on how to create a
table of contents other that manually.


That's because there IS no way to create a table of contents other that
manually.

Where do I find the "Edit Story in Word" feature in Publisher?


Right click Change Text Edit Story in Microsoft Word.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher


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Old April 3rd, 2006, 05:31 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
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Thank you Ed: that is a very clear answer! Luckily my document is not that
large and doesn't need a complex table of content. The advantages of
preventing layout problems that I encountered in Word prevail over the
disadvantage of not being able to generate a table of content automatically,
so I'll use Publisher this time.

This 'Edit story in Word' doesn't offer much. All my text blocks come from
Word documents. I just have to strip them from layout and then I can copy
them into the Publisher text blocks.

"Ed Bennett" wrote:

Loes Weber was very recently
heard to utter:
I went through the whole thread and found no reply on how to create a
table of contents other that manually.


That's because there IS no way to create a table of contents other that
manually.

Where do I find the "Edit Story in Word" feature in Publisher?


Right click Change Text Edit Story in Microsoft Word.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher



 




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