Attn Publisher Users: Setting your Text Defaults!

[Brian Kvalheim - [MSFT MVP]]

Ok, wanna know how to save your text defaults for all future publications
for Publisher 2002/2003. We have just discovered that you do NOT need the
add-in that we developed. This feature has been there all along, since
Publisher 2002 as a matter of fact.

The Normal.pub feature (like the normal.dot feature in Microsoft Word) is
actually present in these last two versions. Yes, it has been there all
along! Thanks to Alex at Microsoft, as he was kind enough to point out after
all these years that it truly does exist.

I have created a tutorial, which is very simple:
http://www.publishermvps.com/general/normal.html

Essential, you change your normal style via the Format > Styles and
Formatting menu, then save that blank publication as normal.pub in your
C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data\Microsoft\Office
folder. Next time you open Publisher, your defaults settings are already
there!

Pretty cool.
--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
http://www.publishermvps.com
~pay it forward~

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[Erika]

Thanks to Alex at Microsoft, as he was kind enough to point out after

all these years that it truly does exist.

LOL

and thanks to you too for passing on this astounding news! It almost
seems to reasonable to be true

 

[Brian Kvalheim - [MSFT MVP]]

Hi Erika ([email protected]),
in the newsgroups
you posted:

||| Thanks to Alex at Microsoft, as he was kind enough to point out
||| after all these years that it truly does exist.
||
|| LOL
||
|| and thanks to you too for passing on this astounding news! It almost
|| seems to reasonable to be true

Your welcome! I too thought it was astounding, so that is the reason I threw
this tutorial together in less than an hour after I found out lol

And thanks for the hug.....mmmmmmmmmm...
--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
http://www.publishermvps.com
~pay it forward~

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.

 

[Brian S. Craigie]

Cooler still would be if it simply had a Default... button like Word. ;-)

 

[Brian Kvalheim - [MS MVP]]

In

Cooler still would be if it simply had a Default... button like Word.

Now THAT might be possible with the use of the VBA, which ties a button to
the normal.pub save location, but I think I would leave that one up to Ed
Bennett, the add-in guru.
--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
http://www.publishermvps.com

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