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Microsoft® Publisher 2002 business desktop publishing program, is designed for business users who are serious about creating professional looking marketing and business materials without the assistance of a professional designer. A flexible wizard model integrated into the new Task Pane allows users to quickly and easily apply design options to create high-quality newsletters, flyers, brochures, Web sites and more. With increased support of commercial printing functionality, first introduced in Publisher 2000, and the creation of the Publisher Service Provider Program, business users can easily locate commercial printers, service bureaus and copy shops to output Publisher files. Work faster with familiar Office tools. Publisher 2002 simplifies the way people work by incorporating popular productivity tools from current and prior versions of Office, further reducing learning between Office applications. New features include Headers and Footers, Print Preview, customizable toolbars, Office Clipboard, OfficeArt, AutoShapes, thesaurus, AutoRecover, multiple documents and more. Powerful Design Tools for Business Users: Publisher 2002 offers more than 8500 template options to start creating and customizing common business publications, including newsletters, postcards, brochures, Web sites and catalogs. Publisher smartly integrates the OfficeXP Task Pane to give users thumbnail previews and single click access to important design tasks � Color Schemes, Font Schemes, layouts, and publication designs. New commercial printing options, including 4-color process plus spot color printing within the same publication gives users additional options for professional printing. Search online for a Publisher printer at www.microsoft.com/publisher/printers Publish Online. Export print-ready Publisher files for viewing on the Web, AutoConvert an existing brochure or newsletter to a Web site, or create a new Web site with the Web Site Wizard. Or, distributed your single page Publisher file as an email message or an email attachment. What's New Tools on the Web With support for VBA in Publisher, you connect to a Web site and integration additional functionality into Publisher. Currently, Tools on the Web will offer bCentral LinkExchange Banner Network and bCentral FastCounter. Additional free and paid services will be available for Publisher through Tools on the Web at launch. New Web Site Designs Publisher features 15 new Web site designs as part of the new Master Sets. Font Substitution Sometimes a publication contains fonts that are neither on your computer nor embedded in the publication. When this happens, Microsoft Publisher temporarily substitutes similar fonts for the missing ones. Publisher now also lets users choose to temporarily font substitute for display and printing, or permanently substitute a font in the publication. Horizontal Rule This customer-requested feature enables users to add a rule before or after a paragraph, as well as set the appearance, color, and position within the document. Help: Ask a Question Like the other Office applications, Publisher enables users to type a question without launching the Answer Wizard or the Office Assistant. Even if the assistant is turned off or hidden, the question is answered in an Answer Wizard balloon. Office Assistant The Office Assistant is hidden by default. It appears when Help is activated and hides when Help is completed. Streamlined User Interface Publisher 2002 shares the same new look and feel of OfficeXP, to improver the user’s experience. This includes removing visually competing elements, visually prioritizing items on a page, increasing letter spacing and word spacing for better readability, and defining foreground and background color to bring the most important elements to the front. Handwriting Publisher 2002 enables users to take handwritten notes on their handheld device and upload their notes as text directly into their Office applications. Speech Use speech recognition to dictate text, and select menu, toolbar, and dialog box items. Select options by clicking buttons on the Language bar. Picture toolbar Users can use the Picture toolbar to change the color and brightness, set transparent color, crop a picture, insert a picture from scanner, change the line and border style, choose text wrapping options, format a picture, and reset a picture. Thesaurus Publisher includes the same thesaurus functionality found in Microsoft Word; Thesaurus and dictionary are shared if both products on computer. Headers and Footers Users can create headers and footers with automatic page numbers, current date and time display, and any text. The Add On the Master Page option enables users to add headers and footers to the entire publication or just to a single page. Multiple documents Publisher users can now open multiple Publisher publications, making it easier to copy content from one Publisher file into another. The number of publications that a user can have open at any one time depends on available system resources. Background Save and AutoRecover Automatic recovery has been added to Microsoft Publisher, meaning files are automatically saved with a specified frequency. Customizable toolbars A long requested customer feature for Publisher. Users can now customize existing toolbars bars or create new ones, just like the rest of the Office applications. Print Preview Consistent with the Office applications, Publisher users can now check the design, layout and content before printing, as well as preview color separations and trapping. AutoShapes Publisher now includes the AutoShapes feature found in the other Office applications. Ready-made shapes include lines, connectors, basic shapes, block arrows, flowchart elements, stars and banners, and callouts. Users can resize, rotate, flip, color, and combine the shapes with other shapes such as circles and squares to make more complex shapes. To add text, start typing in the AutoShape. New Publication task pane As with all the Office applications, the Task Pane provides a single location where users can create a new file or open an existing file. The Publisher New Publication Task pane combines the Publisher Catalog (the visual browsing point for choosing a new publication) and the wizard pane. Users can choose to create a new publication by starting with a Design Set (ie: Scallops, Bars) or with a Publication Type (ie:newsletter, brochure), or . start with a Blank Publication. Publisher includes a visual gallery for choosing pubs. Search (task pane) As part of the Task Pane, the new search capabilities of Publisher make it simple to find text in a document. Users can also find files or folders�regardless of where they are stored�without needing to leave the document they are working on. Furthermore, users can index the files on their machine. The search result is faster and comprehensive. Styles and Formatting task pane Styles and Formatting uses the Task Pane to show available styles and formatting options that users can apply to text in their document. As the user changes any of the options, those changes are immediately reflected in the document. If the user creates a unique style, it is automatically added to the list of available options. 15 New Master Sets Publisher 2002 adds 15 new Master Sets (for a total of 35 Master Sets) created by 3 carefully selected design agencies. Each Master Set consists of more than 25 different publication types, representing the most common page layout publications for business users (newsletter, catalog, brochure, Web site, etc). For a complete visual list of the new Publication designs, refer to the Product Guide appendix or view the sets in the Publisher Gallery at Open/Edit Publisher Web pages Publisher 2002 supports opening Publisher-generated HTML files, allowing you to update your Publisher Web site quickly and easily, while maintaining the fidelity of the Publisher publication. Send as Email With new support for the HTML file format, Publisher 2002 now lets you send a Publisher publication as an email message, in addition to sending as an attachment. Font Schemes New coordinated Font Schemes make it quick and easy for you to choose from a list of 25 Font Schemes that look great together, or to modify them to get just the right look. Commercial Printing: Process Plus Spot Color Publisher 2002 includes additional support for commercial printing, including support for process color plus spot color within a single publication, support for more than 3 spot colors (up to 12), and built in support for single color publications. Word Document Wizard Open basic Microsoft Word documents in Publisher and preserve text styles, formatting and graphics. The new Word Import Options task pane lets you apply Publisher options to your Word document, including a Publication Design, Color Scheme, and Font Scheme. Task Pane Consistent with Office XP, Publisher 2002 features the new Task Pane. For Publisher, the task pane integrates common productivity features with the publication wizard pane found in previous versions of Publisher. The task pane supports visual previews of designs, layout options, Font and Color schemes and more. In addition to Publisher unique task panes, Publisher also has several Office task panes in common � all designed to simplify the creation of materials. Save As Picture The new Save As Picture option lets you save selected objects or an entire page, as a picture file. Use the images in other publications or documents. How to: select object(s) such as masthead at right. Right-click the object(s) and in the shortcut menu, choose Save As Picture. Graphic file formats include GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIF, BMP, WMF and more. Smart Tags Publisher supports 2 of the Office XP Smart Tags: Paste Options and AutoCorrect Options. The new Paste Options smart tag simplifies the process of applying the desired formatting to text that has been pasted from a variety of sources (documents, Web, etc). Once the text has been pasted into Publisher, the Paste Options smart tag appears giving you the option to Keep the Source Formatting, Keep the Text Only, or Use the Destination Styles.
Platform:	PC
Media Format:	CD-ROM
Required Operating System:	Microsoft® Windows® Me Microsoft® Windows® NT 4.0 Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Microsoft® Windows® 95 Microsoft® Windows® 98
Required Processor Class:	Intel® Pentium® Processor
Required Processor Speed:	133 MHz
Required Memory:	32 MB
Required Disk Space:	180 MB
Recommended Processor Class:	Intel® Pentium® III Processor
Recommended Memory:	128 MB
Recommended Disk Space:	500 MB
Other Recommendations:	Internet Connection