Special Edition Using Microsoft® Word 2000

When to Use Word—And When Not To

Should you use Word as a desktop publishing program, or should you use a different piece of software designed specifically for the purpose?

Consider using Word if

• You're creating a fairly simple publication, especially one that can be built from one of Word's built-in templates (page 258) or wizards (page 279).

• You expect to customize your documents and need access to Word features such as mail merge (page 544) to do so.

• Your desktop-published document links to other documents stored on your computer, such as Excel worksheets.

• You want to do it yourself and you already know how to use Word.

• You don't have access to desktop publishing software.

Consider using a dedicated desktop publishing program if

• Your publication ...