Apply more than one master page

[Borny]

MS Office 2007 Small Business Publisher. XP Pro OS.
I have a 208 page instruction manual. I developed a master page with a
header, footer, page # of # to show automatic sequential pages, company logo,
etc. This master page is applied to page 2 through 208.
I developed other master pages that I want to apply to groups of pages
throughout the document. They contain graphic "tabs" that show up on the
vertical border of the document.
So as a result I would have the main master page set at 2-208, then another
master page set at page 2-9, another set at 10-16, another at 17-26, etc.
Is there any way to do this? If not, when MS finally gives us a TRUE update
for Publisher (like they did with '07 Excel, Word, etc) with fancy menus etc.
they could include this feature.
Any ideas?

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

Sure, just apply the different Master Page to different ranges of
pages...select the page ranges on the bottom page tabs and apply Master Page
A or B or C or whatever you named them.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Is there any way to do this? If not, when MS finally gives us a TRUE update
for Publisher (like they did with '07 Excel, Word, etc) with fancy menus etc.
they could include this feature.

a) A "true" update and one that updates the UI are not the same thing.
You can completely change the menus of a product, going to "fancy menus"
without introducing any new functionality, and can revolutionalise
functionality without changing the UI much at all.
b) Any version that focused on fancy new menus would inevitably have
less development time available to focus on other new features.