Missing? features.

G

GbH

Hi, I've just been wading through the 2010 beta details, hoping to find the
following missing features are finally included.
1. the ability to import/merge publisher native files.
2. the ability to generate a table of contents/title index.
To my (very) simple mind the first is fundamental to any such product. If I
have a team working on large product, the need for all of them to access the
core file set is not only impractical but downright dangerous. They must be
able to work on and only on their assigned part of the project. These parts
are then compiled into the final product at or near the end of the project.
Not with Publisher, unless you know different.
The second is a basic requirement of a DTP! TGo transfer the publication
into 'Word' to accomplish this a) is impractical in a large publication, and
b) dosn't work! onlt the text makes it accros, if you're lucky.

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M

Mary Sauer

You can import Publisher files into your current Publisher document. Look on the
Insert tab just below WordArt.
As for TOC/Index, Publisher still remains a DTP application. When you have a
text box application trying to create Indexes and a TOC is darn near impossible.
It will remain a manual operation.
 
G

GbH

Mary said:
You can import Publisher files into your current Publisher document.
Look on the Insert tab just below WordArt.
As for TOC/Index, Publisher still remains a DTP application. When you
have a text box application trying to create Indexes and a TOC is
darn near impossible. It will remain a manual operation.

Which version of Publisher Mary, Under the Insert tab in 2007, I don't
even have wordart, that's buried under picture.
As to ToC in DTP whether its easy or impossible, to me, it's a
requirement!

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Geoff
ExploitEd

Wisdom and experience come with age, they say, but I do wish I could
remember the darn question
 
G

GbH

JoAnn said:
Pub 2010.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



GbH said:
Which version of Publisher Mary, Under the Insert tab in 2007, I
don't even have wordart, that's buried under picture.
As to ToC in DTP whether its easy or impossible, to me, it's a
requirement!

--
--
Geoff
ExploitEd

Wisdom and experience come with age, they say, but I do wish I could
remember the darn question

Thanks JoAnn, might be worth the beer tokens after all!

--
--
Geoff
ExploitEd

Wisdom and experience come with age, they say, but I do wish I could
remember the darn question
 
J

JoAnn Paules

There are some nice features in Pub 2010. Nothing huge but sometimes it only
takes one simple feature to make a program worth buying. Now if the
Publisher team wants to knock *my* socks off, they have to add Office Art
2.0.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



GbH said:
JoAnn said:
Pub 2010.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



GbH said:
Mary Sauer wrote:
You can import Publisher files into your current Publisher document.
Look on the Insert tab just below WordArt.
As for TOC/Index, Publisher still remains a DTP application. When
you have a text box application trying to create Indexes and a TOC
is darn near impossible. It will remain a manual operation.

--
Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/


Hi, I've just been wading through the 2010 beta details, hoping to
find the following missing features are finally included.
1. the ability to import/merge publisher native files.
2. the ability to generate a table of contents/title index.
To my (very) simple mind the first is fundamental to any such
product. If I have a team working on large product, the need for
all of them to access the core file set is not only impractical but
downright dangerous. They must be able to work on and only on their
assigned part of the project. These parts are then compiled into
the final product at or near the end of the project. Not with
Publisher, unless you know different. The second is a basic
requirement of a DTP! TGo transfer the
publication into 'Word' to accomplish this a) is impractical in a
large publication, and b) dosn't work! onlt the text makes it
accros, if you're lucky. ----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to
the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion,
click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see
the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the
Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the
message pane.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...9e-9748c2ecc91d&dg=microsoft.public.publisher

Which version of Publisher Mary, Under the Insert tab in 2007, I
don't even have wordart, that's buried under picture.
As to ToC in DTP whether its easy or impossible, to me, it's a
requirement!

--
--
Geoff
ExploitEd

Wisdom and experience come with age, they say, but I do wish I could
remember the darn question

Thanks JoAnn, might be worth the beer tokens after all!

--
--
Geoff
ExploitEd

Wisdom and experience come with age, they say, but I do wish I could
remember the darn question
 

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