Making Design Gallery Objects available to other files in publishe

[Alcide]

Hello,

I created some custom objects and saved them to the Design Gallery, and they
did appear under My Objects. However, I saved the file and opened up a new
one and to my shock My Objects was empty. I opened the earlier file where I
created and saved the objects and they were still there.

Does this mean that the Design Gallery if file-specific and not saved in a
Publisher Application file for use in other .pub files? Perhaps that is the
default setting that can be changed later.

Please help me on this matter.

Thank you in advance for your support.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Does this mean that the Design Gallery if file-specific and not saved
in a Publisher Application file for use in other .pub files?

Yes, that is unfortunately the case.

Perhaps
that is the default setting that can be changed later.

Unfortunately not - you are stuck with a per-file Design Gallery in all
current versions of Publisher.

 

[Brian Kvalheim [MSFT MVP]]

Hi Alcide ([email protected]),
in the newsgroups
you posted:

|| I created some custom objects and saved them to the Design Gallery,
|| and they did appear under My Objects. However, I saved the file and
|| opened up a new one and to my shock My Objects was empty. I opened
|| the earlier file where I created and saved the objects and they were
|| still there.
||
|| Does this mean that the Design Gallery if file-specific and not
|| saved in a Publisher Application file for use in other .pub files?
|| Perhaps that is the default setting that can be changed later.

And for what it's worth, the Publisher team is familiar with our wish to
have Design Gallery Objects made available for all publications that you
save unde My Objects. This is on the list of considerations for Publisher
12. Feel free to voice your opinion at (e-mail address removed)
--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
http://www.publishermvps.com

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

 

[Alcide]

Hope to see an application-wide My Objects. The closer it works like Visio
Stencils the better. IMHO, Visio has the best graphic/shapes collection
interface that I have ever used, and this includes some experience with
InDesign and QuarkXpress.

I did a workaround where I created a template and put the shapes I want
there. Thereafter I just open new pub docs based on that template.

It will work for know.

Thank you and Ed for your assistance.