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Author: Ed BennettEd Bennett Date: Jul 30, 2006 13:05
Alexiss wrote:
> When I cut and paste from Word to Publisher, or Publisher to Word. The
> formating becomes disorganized. It is difficult when you are working with
> people who are editing your document and they do not have Publisher. Even the
> page size comes across differently.
When multiple users are all editing a single document, a format should
be standardised upon such that all users can edit.
> It is very anoying when products from
> the same company don't play well with each other!
If Word could handle all Publisher content perfectly, what would be the
point in having Publisher?
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Author: Steve in NCSteve in NC Date: Jul 30, 2006 19:37
Alexiss,
Don't know if this will help you but...
I deal with many inputs to put out "our" newsletter each month.
I request that they just submit articles in text only format (txt).
I set up the new pub document and set the default to like, 10pt arial
text, so that when I copy from the submitted texts and paste into the
pub document, it's all 10pt arial.
So maybe if if set the initial default settings in a new pub document,
and then start adding the content from others, it might make it easier
for you :)
Hope that makes sense and sorta answers your inquiry and gives you a
work around idea :)
Steve
Alexiss wrote:
> I am begining to wonder what exactly what the point of publisher is? I
> should be able to move my text around flawessly between tools. I need
> something that will let me cleanly...
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Author: AlexissAlexiss Date: Jul 30, 2006 19:51
Thanks Steve,
I tried that with using Times Roman... but there is still difficulty. I can
work with Word and PowerPoint and not have these many problems. I was really
frustrated when different versions of Publisher didn't play at all with each
other. Now I am concerned that when I take this document to the Printer's to
have the 1500 copies made, that it won't work. I thought it would be a
seamless process also to convert these files to .pdf but from what I have
read on this site it doesn't seem to be.
As you can tell I am pretty frustrtaed. Thank you for taking the time to
answer me with a helpful suggestion.
"Steve in NC" wrote:
> Alexiss,
>
> Don't know if this will help you but...
>
> I deal with many inputs to put out "our" newsletter each month.
> I request that they just submit articles in text only format (txt).
>
> I...
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Author: AlexissAlexiss Date: Jul 30, 2006 20:01
> "If Word could handle all Publisher content perfectly, what would be the
> point in having Publisher?"
????
I cannot believe you wrote that... I am amazed. Why does PowerPoint work
well with Word and Publisher doesn't? what is the use of those products... at
least that is what your logic is suggesting.
MS products should flow back and forth... isn't that why they are packaged
together? Why does MS Word have a TABLE feature when Excel is the Spredsheet
feature?
Because you need to have full feature tools to do some jobs but have the
ability to interconnect those features... You should know that. I can
easily put a piece of my spredsheet in Word... at the same time I can
transfer a table out of Word to my spredsheet... but I cannot transfer a
simple piece of text out of Publisher to my Word Document or a Word Document
to Publisher. Without it loosing its formating integrity.
Since Word works well with other Programs... it must be the error on the
PUBLISHER side. LOGIC tells me this... Am I the only one?
Alexiss
"Ed Bennett" wrote:
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Author: Steve in NCSteve in NC Date: Jul 30, 2006 20:58
Alexiss wrote:
>> "If Word could handle all Publisher content perfectly, what would be the
>> point in having Publisher?"
> ????
> I cannot believe you wrote that... I am amazed. Why does PowerPoint work
> well with Word and Publisher doesn't? what is the use of those products... at
> least that is what your logic is suggesting.
>
> MS products should flow back and forth... isn't that why they are packaged
> together? Why does MS Word have a TABLE feature when Excel is the Spredsheet
> feature?
>
> Because you need to have full feature tools to do some jobs but have the
> ability to interconnect those features... You should know that. I can
> easily put a piece of my spredsheet in Word... at the same time I can
> transfer a table out of Word to my spredsheet... but I cannot transfer a
> simple piece of text out of Publisher to my Word Document or a Word Document
> to Publisher. Without it loosing its formating integrity.
> Since Word works well with other Programs... it must be the error on the
> PUBLISHER side. LOGIC tells me this... Am I the only one? ...
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Author: Ed BennettEd Bennett Date: Jul 31, 2006 04:30
Alexiss wrote:
>> "If Word could handle all Publisher content perfectly, what would be the
>> point in having Publisher?"
> ????
> I cannot believe you wrote that... I am amazed. Why does PowerPoint work
> well with Word and Publisher doesn't? what is the use of those products... at
> least that is what your logic is suggesting.
In my experience, Publisher works just as well with Word content as
PowerPoint does. The main issue in copying and pasting Word content into
Publisher is that the default styles are different, and Publisher by
default formats Word pastes based on their styles rather than their
absolute formats. Fiddling with Paste Special options or the Paste Smart
Tag will normally fix this.
> MS products should flow back and forth... isn't that why they are packaged
> together? Why does MS Word have a TABLE feature when Excel is the Spredsheet
> feature?
Huh? How does that question follow from my statement?
(Tables are not spreadsheets by the way - I've often made that point here)
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Author: MarkMark Date: May 21, 2008 23:45
Well Mr. Bennett, not everyone has the luxury of having Publisher. I'm in the
military and I have to send out news letters in both formats so that who
doesn’t have it can still open MS Word, because it may have to go to
different parts of the world. When I write the news letter in publisher (once
I have all the information) just a few hours, but then having to put it into
MS word takes a day or so.
Suggestion: Take there complaints and maybe work on finding a solution
instead of blowing smoke. Leave that for the politicians.
"Ed Bennett" wrote:
> Alexiss wrote:
>>> "If Word could handle all Publisher content perfectly, what would be the
>>> point in having Publisher?"
>> ????
>> I cannot believe you wrote that... I am amazed. Why does...
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Author: Ed BennettEd Bennett Date: May 22, 2008 01:05
Mark wrote:
> Well Mr. Bennett, not everyone has the luxury of having Publisher. I'm in the
> military and I have to send out news letters in both formats so that who
> doesn’t have it can still open MS Word, because it may have to go to
> different parts of the world.
This is what the PDF format exists for. Not everyone "has the luxury" of
having Microsoft Word, but pretty much the entire world can open a PDF.
> When I write the news letter in publisher (once
> I have all the information) just a few hours, but then having to put it into
> MS word takes a day or so.
Time to create a PDF: About 10 seconds.
> Suggestion: Take there complaints and maybe work on finding a solution
> instead of blowing smoke. Leave that for the politicians.
I don't work for Microsoft. If you don't like my advice, feel free to
ignore me.
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Author: NonnyNonny Date: May 22, 2008 01:28
On Wed, 21 May 2008 23:45:01 -0700, Mark
discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Well Mr. Bennett, not everyone has the luxury of having Publisher. I'm in the
>military and I have to send out news letters in both formats so that who
>doesnÂ’t have it can still open MS Word, because it may have to go to
>different parts of the world. When I write the news letter in publisher (once
>I have all the information) just a few hours, but then having to put it into
>MS word takes a day or so.
>
>Suggestion: Take there complaints and maybe work on finding a solution
>instead of blowing smoke. Leave that for the politicians.
You might consider converting the finished product into PDF format.
That format only requires a simple PDF reader.
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