Graham Mayor said:
JoAnn Paules said:
apb said:
Graham Mayor said:
apb said:
Graham Mayor said:
apb said:
John McGhie said:Graham is struggling to get you to read what he is writing... I will try
a
different way, but I have a feeling that "there are none so deaf as those
who will not hear..."
Word will not import Publisher documents. Because THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS
DESIGNED.
Please try to understand that Publisher is a cheapie "toy" page-layout
program that was built down to a price. The idea was to make an
affordable
program that would enable home users to do basic publishing.
Word and Publisher can produce files that look and print almost exactly
the
same. But the internal binary representation is utterly different,
because
of the different purposes the two bits of software have when they come to
work on that file.
To use an analogy, it's as if you were creating an advertisement for
different countries. You might express one in English for use in America,
and advertise the same product in Arabic for use in Iraq. The intended
audience would understand the same thing from each advertisement, but the
ads would look completely different.
High-end publishing programs such as are used to make magazines and
newspapers contain programs to translate the internal structure of one
file
type into their native structure. But these translators are large and
expensive programs.
Microsoft had to make a choice: Sell Publisher for $99.00 without
translators, or for $850.00 with translators. They chose to produce the
cheap version, figuring that would suit the majority of customers.
If you have the $850.00 to spend, go buy Adobe Creative Suite 2 and you
will
not have the problem. If you don't want to spend that much, then you
either
insert your publisher file into Word as a graphic, or you can't insert it
into Word.
Graham suggested that you might re-draw the thing in Word. Word has a
more
advanced version of the same drawing tools in it that Publisher has.
That's
what I would do too.
Otherwise: Sorry! The programs are incompatible. Oh: and NEITHER of them
are "part of the Windows XP system". Windows XP is an operating system
that
does not include any applications at all. Word is a member of the Office
System. Publisher is a member of the Consumer Applications bundle.
There: That's about as clear as I can make it
Cheers
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Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410
apb said:Dear Bob,
Thanks for your advice. I tried what you suggested but it comes up in
Word
as ten seperate items. I can get these items on the page but the tools in
Word cann't reorganise the items back to the original letterhead.
Anything else I could try?
Thanks,
apb
Bob Buckland ?:-) said:Hi Apb,
What will sometimes work, for reusing Publisher single page content in
Word, is to use the Web Page save/open capabilities of the
two programs (success in this can depend on a number of factors,
including how complex your letterhead is, which design you started
with and how close to the margins you placed things).
Here is one method you may want to try.
1. In Word use View=>Toolbars and turn on the Drawing Toolbar.
2. In Word use Tools=>Options=>General and turn on
[x] Confirm Conversions on Open
3. In Word use Tools=>Customize=>Commands, select the 'Drawing' category
and then drag the 'select multiple objects' command to the
Drawing toolbar (next to the already present 'white arrow' icon, then
close the customization dialog, then close Word (If prompted
to save changes to the global template, choose Yes).
4. In Publisher, open your letterhead file then use
File=>Save as Web page (single file) and save it to an empty folder and
close Publisher. Make a note of the file name and folder
name.
5. In Windows Explorer, locate the .htm or .mht file you just saved,
right click it, choose 'Open With' and select Microsoft Word.
5. In Word, once the file is opened in Word click on the 'Select Multiple
Objects' choice on the drawing toolbar and choose 'Select
All'.
6. In Word, on the drawing toolbar use Draw=>Group.
7. In Word use ctrl+X to cut the letterhead object out of the main
document area.
8. In Word use View=>Header and Footer and use Ctrl+V to paste the
letterhead there.
9. In Word save the file as a .dot (template) or a .doc file then use
View=>Print Layout to see if that gives you close to your
original letterhead.
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I've tried copying the letterhead and pasting it to word but it comes up
completely differently and I can't change it back to the original with
the
tools in word. (that's why it was done in publisher in the first place).
What do you mean by a proper graphics application and in what program?
apb >>
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MS Office System Products MVP
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