Help - can't import Word documents - what to do?

[REb]

I am an editor of an elementary school newsletter for PSO
(like PTA). This software is so hard to figure out!
People have been trained to send me articles in Word, but
I can't take the articles and place them exactly like
they should be (formatting and all) into Publisher. Some
articles need to be exactly as they are, not put into the
format of Publisher
I am very freustrated with this Publisher software and am
thinking that I just wasted $160.00 for nothing. Will I
have to eat crow and go back to Word???

 

[Erika]

I am an editor of an elementary school newsletter for PSO

(like PTA). This software is so hard to figure out!
People have been trained to send me articles in Word, but
I can't take the articles and place them exactly like
they should be (formatting and all) into Publisher. Some
articles need to be exactly as they are, not put into the
format of Publisher
I am very freustrated with this Publisher software and am
thinking that I just wasted $160.00 for nothing. Will I
have to eat crow and go back to Word???

In my experience, I was able to copy articles in Word and paste them
right into Publisher, keeping the original formatting. (Can't remember
if there was a choice to keep original formatting or match destination
formatting). Anyway, try to just copy & paste. If you have a full page
article, either take a blank page in Publisher or make one huge text
frame that covers the whole page.

If you have any other specific questions just ask.

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

Publisher does not always preserve formatting as you are unlikely to make
the Text Frames the exact size etc.

You will always have to adjust the formatting in Publisher to suit. A page
layout program will never keep things exactly the way there. For example if
the Word file contains pictures, they will never be in the correct place.

No, you most definitely have not wasted $160, you need to learn how to use
an excellent and relatively easy program.
There is a distinct difference in the way a word processor and a page layout
program work.

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