Will MS Publisher Ever Take Preset Formatting From Merges?

[Zack]

Hello,
Will Microsoft Publisher 2000 or later versions ever
take preset line spacing formats from merges from MS Word,
Excel, and Access, and any other word processing,
spreadsheet, database, and text editing programs?

I don't want to have to set the line spacing
formatting by hand after the merging.

There are also MS Works, Lotus Smart Suite, Word
Perfect, and for all I know advanced text editors like
NotePad or WordPad or whatever. Someone also suggested
using FileMaker, whatever that is.

It could be beneficial if MS Publisher 2000 and later
versions accepted preset formatting from the other
programs during merges. It would be helpful to me for
what I am working on now if MS Word and/or MS Access line
spacing formatting was accepted.

PLease Reply,
Zack - (e-mail address removed)

 

[°°°M°S°°Publisher°°°]

Ed you could not recommend anything, as you are against anything and
everything in life that is good and progressive.

Filemaker happens to be the largest selling database product for all the
right reasons.

Ed you are just a blind indoctrinated low intellect minion.

Toddle back to where you belong in the little kiddies newsgroup PictureIt.

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[Ed Bennett]

Whilst attempting to develop brick-based storage technology, Ed reads a

Toddle back to where you belong in the little kiddies newsgroup
PictureIt.

I have never used and will never use PictureIt.
Therefore the level of support I could give to PictureIt users would be far
more limited and less specialised than the little support I am able to give
Publisher users.
I cannot recommend FileMaker as a database application as I have never used
it, and the people I have talked to (apart from you) describe it as clunky
and inefficient.

 

[°°°M°S°°Publisher°°°]

Well, well, clunky and inefficient would be the accolade you could give to
MS Access. MS Access is right at the top of the pile for being the worst
mongrel database product on the market.

If you think the Number One (1) 1st place selling database is clunky and
inefficient, it proves you are lacking in basic computer knowledge and lack
the ability to have an informed inefficient.

How about you trot off to the Filemaker website www.filemaker.com and see
all the major US companies that use Filemaker. You don't get to be number 1
without doing something correctly.

Ed how old are you in real life?

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[Ed Bennett]

Whilst attempting to develop brick-based storage technology, Ed reads a

Well, well, clunky and inefficient would be the accolade you could
give to MS Access. MS Access is right at the top of the pile for
being the worst mongrel database product on the market.

I have used Access, and I like it. Probably because I am an ignoramus who
likes crappy products.

If you think the Number One (1) 1st place selling database is clunky
and inefficient, it proves you are lacking in basic computer
knowledge and lack the ability to have an informed inefficient.

I never said I thought that, I said that's what I'd heard. I do not have an
opinion on it, as I have not used it.

Ed how old are you in real life?

How about you trot off and do some research yourself. I don't make any
secret of my age.

 

[JD Rocke]

I like Alpha 5. www.alphasoftware.com I haven't used anything else except
Access, (Ok, I did some data testing for a company on JDE/Citrix, but I
don't know much about it.) Alpha is FAR easier to program and modify that
Access. Of course, I have heard that ANYTHING is easier to program than
Access, but I have no way of knowing if this is true.

 

[°°°M°S°°Publisher°°°]

Alpha 5 is quite ok, and has been around a long time. In the UK there is a
magazine out this month with a full free working version of Alpha 4.5 on the
cover CD.

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