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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marius Delphus" data-source="post: 5048918" data-attributes="member: 447">Personally, I learn best by doing, so my suggestion would be to start by creating something *now* and evaluating whether what you create meets the standards you're setting for yourself. If so, then you don't need to look much further; if not, then you will need to determine whether acquiring new skills with your current software is the ticket, or whether new software will meet your needs.As I said, I find trying to create publication-ready documents with word-processing software uncomfortable and difficult -- I find myself spending too much time "fighting" the software's proclivities and enforcing my needs upon it. Because I find it easier to create with (after learning through trial and error how to use it), I would recommend taking the plunge into page-layout software.So here's a few online resources you can consult to familiarize yourself with some of the concepts involved in page layout.On the general topic of desktop publishing (DTP):<a href="http://desktoppub.about.com/od/desktoppublishing/How_to_Do_Desktop_Publishing.htm" target="_blank">How to Do Desktop Publishing</a><a href="http://desktoppub.about.com/od/graphicdesign/Graphic_Design_Tutorials.htm" target="_blank">Learning Graphic Design Basics</a><a href="http://desktoppub.about.com/od/desktoppublishing/u/Tasks_and_Techniques.htm" target="_blank">Tasks, Techniques, and Tutorials of Page Layout and DTP</a><a href="http://www.freddesign.co.uk/2009/12/archive/rules-for-good-typography/" target="_blank">Simple Rules of Good Typography</a> ** I quibble with a couple specific points: hanging bullets outside the margin and Fibonacci sequence as point sizes. Otherwise, good suggestions. On the more specific topic of page-layout/DTP software:<a href="http://desktoppub.about.com/od/uselayoutsoftware/Using_Page_Layout_Software.htm" target="_blank">Using Page Layout Software</a><a href="http://desktoppub.about.com/od/softwaretutorials/Desktop_Publishing_Software_Tutorials.htm" target="_blank">Desktop Publishing Software Tutorials</a>Download and use a trial version of InDesign (requires Adobe account [free]):<a href="http://www.adobe.com/downloads/" target="_blank">Adobe - Downloads</a><a href="http://arbent.net/blog/30-tutorials-that-will-teach-you-indesign" target="_blank">30 Tutorials That Will Teach You InDesign</a>Download and use a test-drive version of Quark XPress:<a href="http://downloads.quark.com/SearchResults.aspx?pid=1&oid=0&ftid=1&&mid=2" target="_blank">QuarkXPress 8 – Downloads</a>Download and use a trial version of Microsoft Publisher:<a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/default.aspx" target="_blank">Publisher Home Page</a>Download and use Scribus:<a href="http://www.scribus.net/" target="_blank">Scribus Home Page</a><a href="http://docs.scribus.net/" target="_blank">Scribus Documentation</a>HTH. HAND (and a Nice Read while you're at it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ).</blockquote>

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