text questions

[Carrie]

I'm setting up a children's book for someone (a "dummy" book, with the
text the person wrote, and the author is going to do the pictures on) is
there a specific way to center it on the page? Neither of us know much
about it. Does it have to be on the bottom of the page (or most of it
should be) with the pictures above it?

Should it be centered (like selected and "center" icon in toolbar used,
rather than left margin? This looks good, except if one word ends up in the
middle, by itself, and then I've been moving it back up to the line
(knocking it off center) Maybe it doesn't really matter, if and when the
book is printed it would be set up by the printer?

I know, there are children's books,like Dr Suess, where the text and
pictures are all over the pages, but is there a standard to follow?

Also, I'm setting up another books that's mainly pictures with text
boxes and captions under them. I put on the picture first, to see what it's
going to be, then the text box and word(s). One page at a time. Rather than
doing all the pictures and then doing the text (I haven't tried this so
don't know if it would stay on the font and size I want this way) Each time
I do this (picture-text) I have to change the font name and size back to
the one I'm using for the overall book. I've looked all over and don't see
how the specific font/size can be set as default for this project. So, it
will stay on the font and size I want on each page as I go along?

I have Publisher 2000.

Thanks,

Carrie

 

[Mary Sauer]

You can change the text box defaults
Format, text style.

There is the painter tool. Have you used it? Publisher's help files are a great
asset.

Have you tried working with the text wrapping? You can edit the wrap anyway you
want.

How to obtain the Publisher 2000 Knowledge Base HTML Help file
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246512/en-us