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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BriarMonkey" data-source="post: 5815166" data-attributes="member: 95387">There is also MS Publisher.  It's a light-weight desktop publishing tool, and costs a fraction of what Adobe's products cost.  And, if you have both Word and Publisher on the same machine, you can work on your layout in Publisher and actually link to Word to do the text entry (which can be easier in Word than Publisher - depending on what you are used to).Unlike Word, Publisher does allow you drag and drop to place elements right where you want them, the resizing of elements, master pages, much better clip art and graphics support, rulers, discrete text boxes, linked text boxes, tables, layout guides, and a host of other tools.  As I said though, it is light-weight so a lot of the bits that the Adobe and other expesive tools have, this doesn't (such as layering, filters, enhanced CMYK support, automatically allowing PDF exports [you'd need Adobe Acrobat or a third party printer to do this in Publisher], etc.)I like the tool well enough, especially for the price.</blockquote>