Formatting and Styles throughout

[Paul - FL]

I have a question for you about formatting and styles. I've used these in
many programs and am well-versed using them in Word. I have now to do so in
Publisher and am new to the program. The question is: how are styles most
easily applied in a large document when things like headers and then
body-text are grouped in style but not location. For example, a list of
features and their operation. The headers and body-text are mixed throughout.
Do I create a separate text file for each feature heading and then a separate
file for each text body that is associated? If so, how do I keep them
linked? I assume that there are text boxes and various placement
mechanisms... how would you structure what I am describing?
Paul

 

[Mary Sauer]

You are going to be better informed by doing a little reading.
Microsoft Office Publisher 2003
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/CH790018091033.aspx

And there are training courses as well
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/CR061832741033.aspx

 

[Paul - FL]

Mary,
Thanks for the links - but I find them almost useless. What I saw that was
Publisher related was not helpful in figuring out how to begin in this
program - especially for the tasks that I need to get done - formatting text.
I also had no success in starting an on-line tutorial. Where are they? I
clicked links that took me away from Publisher all together. What am I doing
wrong?
Paul

 

[Mary Sauer]

Paul, I know the assistance articles are long and wordy, but they are far more
informative than what we can offer.

The courses? They are here
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/CR061832741033.aspx
You have to have the ActiveX control for the courses to work.
http://office.microsoft.com/templates/axinstall.aspx?FromArea=Clipart

When you want to do a text style after you have already created the document, it will
take some tweaking.

The Font Scheme Options link gives choices. (This is pasted from help)

Font schemes are styles that Publisher applies over other styles in a publication.
When you apply a font scheme, Publisher changes all the styles in your publication to
use one of the two fonts in the font scheme instead of the fonts that the style was
originally set to use.
Use font scheme options to modify how Publisher applies the font schemes.

1.Update custom text styles Select this option to update the font used in any
custom text style to match one of the fonts used in the current font scheme. This
option does not affect any other formatting that you have defined for the custom
style.

2.Override applied text formatting Select this option to change the font used in
any applied text formatting to one of the fonts in the font scheme. This option only
changes the font; it does not affect any other text formatting.

3.Adjust font sizes Select this option to automatically adjust the font size of a
style, if needed, to maintain the same area covered by the original block of text.
This option may cause the font size to increase or decrease from the size set in the
style, but it will prevent the text reflowing.