insserting formatted word files into publisher

[Florentine]

i'm using office 2003 and i'm making a book. i have fully formatted pages,
each an individual file, saved in word. they have drop caps, specific
margins, headings, etc. when i try to insert a text file by first creating a
text box the full page size, the file i import comes over completely wrong.
if i don't first make a text box the insert file choice is grayed out. i
have 150 pages that need precision. i hope you can help.
thanks.

 

[Mary Sauer]

You will be far better off leaving your project in Word. You will not be able to
maintain the formatting. Publisher does not support headers or footers. The drop caps
will not be positioned the same, if you try to change the drop cap, the line spacing
become skewed. Word is better for long documents, Word has a booklet setup.

 

[Florentine]

You will be far better off leaving your project in Word. You will not be able to
maintain the formatting. Publisher does not support headers or footers. The drop caps
will not be positioned the same, if you try to change the drop cap, the line spacing
become skewed. Word is better for long documents, Word has a booklet setup.

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yes, i'm seeing that. but when I try to make one book out of all the
individual files, Word drops the pagination: no drop caps, the font and type
size change. Any way to protect it, so I don't have to start over. This is
so frustrating.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Yes - it's called PagePlus and it's what you should have used from the
beginning. It does exactly what Publisher does not, cannot and,
probably, will not, do.

If Florentine had worked in Publisher from the start, she would not have had
this problem.
If Florentine had worked in PagePlus from the start, and she had PagePlus or
felt like shelling out for it when she didn't technically need it, she would
not have had this problem.

If Publisher imported Word files into text boxes perfectly, then she would
not have had this problem.
If PagePlus
If PagePlus imported Word files into text boxes perfectly, and she had
PagePlus or felt like shelling out for it when she didn't technically need
it, she would not have had this problem.

 

[Jimbo]

Why post here if you dislike publisher so much? Troll? Yup.


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