Publisher 2003: yes or no?

M

Mordido

I just obtained Publisher 2003 30 day trail. I already have Office Student
and Teacher Edition 2003, and that has Picture Manager, Excel, Outlook,
PowerPoint, Word, and more. Many of these are just repeated in Publisher.
The main reason I'm even checking Publisher out is that I'm trying to put
together a chapbook of poetry. I have downloaded two files for Word:
Chapbook Cover and Chapbook template. I just want to find a way to use these
file to make my chapbook and was told I needed Publisher. Can anyone explain
why, when Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003 has so many of the same
features as Publisher 2003 that I need publisher to make a chapbook? Since I
have features such as PowerPoint and Word 2003 that's the same as that Word
in Publisher 2003 is there a way I haven't seen that Office Student and
Teacher Edition 2003 can help me produce my chapbook? Or must I purchase
Publisher for this one feature: i.e. the chapbook?
 
J

JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]

Because most schools do not use/teach/require Publisher.

And there is no Word in Publisher. Publisher is a program all by itself.
 
D

Doug21

Mordido - Word and Publisher are two diffrent programs, as has been noted.
Word is fine for typing documents - letters, term papers, etc. Publisher is
for desktop publishing. It allows you to use graphics in an easier and more
spohisticated way than Word and have better control over the use and
placement of the text that will appear in your chapbook. You can set up
consecutive pages and see what the finished chapbook will look like, which is
not possible in Word. In addition, you can take a Publisher file to a
printer and have it reproduced exactly as you have laid it out on your
computer. If none of this is important to you, then you can just use Word.
if you play with Publisher some, you will understand the difference and then
you can decide...
 
M

Mike Koewler

In addition, you can take a Publisher file to a
printer and have it reproduced exactly as you have laid it out on your
computer. <<

And a good printer cannot do this with a Word file?

Mike
 

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