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Using Word to Prepare Publisher Text

Trying to compose a lengthy story from scratch in Publisher would be akin to writing a long speech on index cards: impossible to fit everything on one card, and a frustrating waste of time and energy shuffling the cards around. It’s a bad idea. Here’s a good one: Compose the entire story in Word, using all of Word’s tools, and then put the finished, formatted story into Publisher. Then, if you need to, you can do any small edits in Publisher, or you can return to Word for more substantial edits.

Create Your Story

1. In Publisher, design and save the type of publication you want, and lay out your page, with an empty ...