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<blockquote data-quote="jaerdaph" data-source="post: 556504" data-attributes="member: 3398">This is a actually a good example of why you might choose MS Publisher over MS Word. Each item on your page (be it an image, text block, or pagination number) lives in its own box and you lay it out where you want it on the page. You could add your background border image in an image box, then place a text box over the area of the border image where you want the numbers to be, and set it as an automatically calculating pagination number. You would do this on the page background view so it shows up on every page (with the correct page number), then switch back to the regular page view to add your text boxes for your publication's actual text. Of course, you would have to have separate Publisher files for the front cover and the back cover, but what you do is create 3 different PDFs and merge them together into one file through Acrobat. Publisher is a lot easier to use than it looks if you invest a day or two of training time on your own with it, and you can get the same effects you do in Word, sometimes better. And since it's part of the Microsoft Office family, you can cut and paste formatted text from Word directly to Publisher. It's not as professional as QuarkExpress or PageMaker, but it is simple to use if you are familiar enough with MS Office programs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jaerdaph, post: 556504, member: 3398"] This is a actually a good example of why you might choose MS Publisher over MS Word. Each item on your page (be it an image, text block, or pagination number) lives in its own box and you lay it out where you want it on the page. You could add your background border image in an image box, then place a text box over the area of the border image where you want the numbers to be, and set it as an automatically calculating pagination number. You would do this on the page background view so it shows up on every page (with the correct page number), then switch back to the regular page view to add your text boxes for your publication's actual text. Of course, you would have to have separate Publisher files for the front cover and the back cover, but what you do is create 3 different PDFs and merge them together into one file through Acrobat. Publisher is a lot easier to use than it looks if you invest a day or two of training time on your own with it, and you can get the same effects you do in Word, sometimes better. And since it's part of the Microsoft Office family, you can cut and paste formatted text from Word directly to Publisher. It's not as professional as QuarkExpress or PageMaker, but it is simple to use if you are familiar enough with MS Office programs. [/QUOTE]

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