Page Options in Publisher 2007

[MartyS]

I woner if anyone has a clue about this problem I am having. None of the 5
Microsoft technicians that I have talked to have any understanding.

I create a newsletter by starting with a newsletter template. I modify the
template by adding my own stories and artwork. That works fine. But then,
when I want to made a web doxument of this, I want to convert the mulicolumn
newsletter to a single column web newsletter. To do this, I go to PAGE
OPTIONS and click "1 Column."

But when I do this, all of my work is erased and replaced by the content of
the original template as it was before any of my modifications. Surely this
is not how PAGE OPTIONS is supposed to work.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Open a new publication, select the same newsletter template. Do the page options
first, copy/paste your text from your original publication.

Might not be the way you expect, but generally setting up your page first is
prudent.

 

[MartyS]

That's all good an fine but when you have a 15 page newsletter with 32
stories, it entails a huge amount of extra effort, when PAGE OPTIONS SHOULD
take care of in one click.
Thanks

 

[Mary Sauer]

I understand what you are saying. When I tried to do what you asked about I had
the same experience. Firstly my text did not fit the space after I chose one
column. I think if the text boxes were setup as three columns it may have worked
out okay, as it is there are three linked text boxes. These text boxes lose
their links as soon as you rearrange the page, there is nothing to link to any
longer.

The newsletter templates are only two pages. When you insert new pages you are
given the choice of how they are setup. You obviously elected to have your pages
pre-designed with three columns.

Your creating a newsletter is commendable, it is difficult to say the least. I
could never write 32 stories. Good luck in your endeavor.

 

[MartyS]

The results of using PAGE OPTIONS is totally unpredictable. Sometimes it
will erase portions of your newsletter, somemtinmes it will radically
rearrange sections into different places. It is obviously something that was
never tested. But that is because Publisher is so infrequently used. Most
users probably do most publishing in Word. But Word does a terrible job of
creating HTML documents, whereas Publisher 2007 converts each section of the
print document to a jpg file so that there is an exact match between the
print and the web document. Much better because Word is almost useless in
this regard.Thanks