Setting styles for headings etc.

[OfficeAnimal]

As a long-term user of MSWord I expected a similarity in the way Publusher works. Notably that I would be able to define (and, hopefully, hot-key to) heading and other paragraph styles for my documents. I can't find such a facility.

Is there such a facility? If not, how do I control style consistency throughout a document?

For argument's sake, assume that my document will require a range of headings, some of them numbered in Legal style. It will also require paragraphs that are bulleted and list-numbered including sub-paragraphs. It will require special formats for emphasised text, quotations etc.

All assistance appreciated.

 

[JPaules]

Format - Styles and Formatting

Please remember that Publisher is NOT Word. Publisher is a desktop publishing program. It sounds like what you really should be using is a word processing program.

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JP

 

[OfficeAnimal]

Thanks, JPaules

I am putting together a handbook which will be 2xA5 pages per A4 sheet, printed both sides - complete with graphs and other illustrations. I would have thought that constituted Desktop Publishing.

Does your answer simply mean that the functionality I need is not available in Publisher?

 

[JPaules]

The first thing I would recommend is that you talk to your printer. Not all printers will accept a Publisher file. You can use/create/modify styles to suit after you check with them.

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JP

 

[OfficeAnimal]

1. I anticipated using a laser colour printer that prints both sides - not a commercial printer. I am using a _desktop_ publisher

2. I found the styles system.

Thanks