Dave Publisher vs. Word comes down I think essentially to how pretty you want publications to be and the ease with which such prettiness can be achieved.
Why this person uses Word for menus instead of Publisher I'm not sure because it would be pretty well as easy to produce a menu in Publisher as it would be with Word. That said, if you want a lot of pictures and graphics, say of vegitables or fruit or foaming cups of coffeee adorning your menu, then I'd much prefer to do that In Publisher than in Word; not because it can't be done in Word, simply that in Publisher frames for holding pictures and graphics are simply dragged into place from a pallet on the left of the screen. To do the same in Word is one hell of a pularver unless you are very skilled at using Word. Similarly long newsletters with mirrored banner headings and page numbers say enclosed in little boxes or circles is much easier in Publisher than it would be in Word. That's not even touching the many layering effects with colour and gradients you can do with Publisher or any layout program. A simple menu would of course be very easy to do in Word and I could manage that if all that's important is the text. For blind people that's exactly what's of importance. So, as long as the menu text is composed in a frame that can easily be extracted from the rest of the layout, then pasting that into Word or any editor such as Wordpad or Jarte, should be easy-peasy. Hope that lengthy explanation is of some help, but as someone who sometimes has to deal with fancy docs and make them available to those using Word I know how frustrating it can be if those using Publisher or other such programs are ignorant of such issues. Ray dave bovan wrote: Hi list, I realize that Publisher doesn't work with Window-Eyes, and Word does! I was talking with the service Coordinator here at Sage Tower, well, I was talking with her this morning about having the newsletter put on the computer. She knows that publisher doesn't work with my screen reader. I asked her if she could put the newsletter on the computer using Word, and I got the idea that she doesn't like to use word for that purpose. She likes to use Publisher when writing the newsletter. She uses Word or something like it when she sends the menu. My question is this for the list, How does Publisher differ from Word? There must be more to the newsletter than Word can handle, or she doesn't like it or something like that. The menu doesn't take up that much room. Bonnie, the Service coordinator, uses both programs instead of just one. That to me seems like a lot of work. Thank you for your response. Dave If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
