Table of contents
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Startup and Settings
- What's new in Microsoft Office Publisher 2003
- About product activation in Microsoft Office System products
- Disclaimer: Use of Fictitious Names
- Terms of Use
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Getting Help
- Turn automatic tips off or on
- Turn helpful mouse pointers off or on
- Turn object ScreenTips off or on
- About getting help while you work
- Icons in the Search Results task pane
- Show or hide the Type a question for help box
- Change the appearance of a Help topic
- Print a Help topic
- Troubleshoot Help
- The Office Assistant
- Other Resources
- Accessibility
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Installing and Customizing
- Install or remove individual components in Office
- Reinstall Publisher to add components previously not loaded
- Show or hide the New Publication task pane at startup
- Get information about your program and computer
- Change Office's appearance
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Toolbars and Commands
- About menus and toolbars
- Create a custom toolbar
- Add a button, menu, or command
- Move or copy a button, menu, or menu command
- Assign or change a keyboard accelerator
- Group related buttons and menus on a toolbar
- Move a submenu anywhere on the screen
- Remove commands and controls for languages you don't use
- Rename a button, menu command, or menu
- Delete a toolbar or menu
- Show or hide a toolbar
- Move a toolbar
- Show all buttons or commands
- Resize a toolbar
- Show all commands on the menus
- Change a picture on a button
- Change the size of a toolbar button or drop-down list box
- Display an icon, text or both on a menu command or button
- Rename a custom toolbar
- Restore original settings for buttons, commands, or toolbars
- Show all the commands on a menu
- Show or hide toolbar ScreenTips
- Troubleshoot toolbars and menus
- Troubleshoot Installing Office
- Using Microsoft Office
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Managing Files
- Save a publication in Publisher 2000 or Publisher 98 format
- Save a file
- Open a file
- Rename a file
- Select multiple files
- File formats that Publisher converts
- Help protect Publisher files stored on a network
- Save an Office document as a TIFF file
- Troubleshoot saving files
- Moving, Copying, and Deleting files
- Finding Files
- File Properties
- File Recovery
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Handwriting and Speech
- Show or hide the Language bar
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Handwriting Recognition
- About handwriting recognition
- Install handwriting recognition
- Use handwriting recognition
- Handwriting recognition toolbars
- Change handwriting recognition options
- Correct handwriting
- Troubleshoot handwriting recognition
- Troubleshoot handwriting recognition in East Asian languages
- East Asian Languages
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Speech Recognition
- About speech recognition
- Getting started with speech recognition
- Install and train speech recognition
- Things you can do and say with speech recognition
- Use speech recognition
- How to speak to a computer
- Position the speech recognition microphone
- Turn on or off the speech recognition microphone
- Create and use speech recognition user profiles
- Switch between using Dictation and Voice Command modes
- Add to or delete from the speech recognition dictionary
- Change speech recognition engines
- Correct speech recognition errors
- Format text by using speech recognition
- Language bar speech recognition messages
- Troubleshoot speech recognition
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Creating a Publication
- Create a publication
- Create or change a template
- Create an invitation
- About converting publications between print and Web mode
- Troubleshoot templates
- Use the mouse to pan across the workspace
- Tips for assembling a poster or banner
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Page Layout
- About margins, indentation, alignment, and line spacing
- Add or adjust margins
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Layout Guides
- Remove grid guides
- About baseline guides
- Align text to baseline guides
- Change baseline guides spacing and offset
- Hide or show layout guides, ruler guides, and object boundaries
- Set up text columns using layout guides
- Snap objects to guides, ruler marks, or other objects
- Structure the page with layout guides
- Show or hide baseline guides
- Troubleshoot baseline guides
- Move a margin guide, column guide, or row guide
- About layout guides and ruler guides
- Troubleshoot layout guides, ruler guides, and the ruler
- Rulers and Ruler Guides
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Master Pages
- About using master pages
- About using single-page and two-page master pages
- Hide master page objects
- Mirror text and pictures on facing master pages
- Move between master pages and publication pages
- Send an object to a master page from a publication page
- Send an object from the master page to a publication page
- Troubleshoot using master pages
- Add a text watermark that appears on every page
- Change or delete objects that repeat on every page
- Add or remove headers or footers
- Make an object appear on multiple pages
- Duplicate a master page
- Apply master pages to publication pages
- Change a single-page master page to a two-page master page
- Change a two-page master page to a single-page master page
- Create, edit, or delete a master page
- Rename a master page
- Arranging Pages
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Page Setup
- Change page size, paper size, or page orientation
- View a two-page spread
- Set up a mirrored-page layout (as for a book)
- Create a poster, banner, or other large publication
- Create a folded booklet or newsletter
- Set up and print a letter-sized booklet
- Change the size of a publication
- Create a label from page setup
- Change the distance between copies on a page
- Add a line between text columns
- Zoom in or out
- Set the unit of measure
- Columns and Rows
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Using Color
- Add colors to the Fill Color palette
- Recolor a picture
- Restore original colors to a picture or object
- Reduce the number of colors in a picture
- Troubleshoot modifying color fills
- Add a color or a pattern to the margins in a picture frame
- Add a color or pattern behind an entire page or group of objects
- Color Schemes
- Using Wizards
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Personal Information
- Add a personal information component to a publication
- Add, change, or remove personal information data
- Edit a logo for a personal information set
- Add or remove a color scheme for a personal information set
- About personal information sets
- Troubleshoot personal information
- Troubleshoot text that appears randomly
- Smart Tags
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Working with Text
- Export text
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Text Boxes
- Create a text box
- About connecting text boxes
- About text boxes
- Align text within a text box
- Fit text in a text box
- Change how text flows between connected text boxes
- Change the margins around text in a text box or a shape
- Connect text boxes
- Create columns within a text box
- Delete a text box in a series of connected text boxes
- Delete text in connected text boxes
- Move between connected text boxes
- Troubleshoot connecting text boxes
- Add or change a Continued notice
- Reword or reformat a Continued notice
- Apply vertical text flow
- Get text out of overflow
- Set defaults for new text boxes
- Text in Shapes
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Tables
- Troubleshoot deleting items in tables
- Troubleshoot formatting tables
- Troubleshoot gridlines in tables
- Troubleshoot objects in tables
- Troubleshoot text in tables
- Create a table
- Add an object to a table
- Format a table's size, layout, and cell properties
- Resize a table
- Copy a table or table text from another program
- Change cells in a table
- Change rows or columns in a table
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Formatting
- Remove all text formatting
- Change the color of text
- Add a shadow to text
- Add a dropped capital letter
- Add a table of contents with leaders
- Add or replace a symbol or fraction
- Troubleshoot text formatting and fonts
- About text shadows and 3-D effects
- Automatically synchronize formatting
- Hyphenation
- Paragraph Formatting
- Bullets and Tabs
- Spacing
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Fonts
- About automatic font switching
- Select fonts that work well together
- See which fonts are used in a publication
- Troubleshoot fonts and subsetting
- About resolving font duplication in Publisher
- Show or hide actual fonts in the font list
- Turn font previews on or off
- About font license restrictions
- Font Schemes
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Embed Fonts
- Load embedded fonts and print a font report
- Find out if a font can be embedded
- Embed only part of a font in your publication
- Embed fonts in a publication
- Change embedding status for individual TrueType fonts
- About embedding fonts in your publication
- About Microsoft Publisher font embedding for commercial printing
- Substitute Fonts
- Copyfitting
- Wrapping
- Editing
- Styles
- Find and Replace
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Automatic Correction and Formatting
- Automatically add bullets to a list
- Automatically number a list
- Automatically check spelling as you type
- Automatically replace straight quotes with smart (curly) quotes
- Add an em (â) or en ( â ) dash
- Troubleshoot spelling and AutoCorrect
- Troubleshoot em or en dashes
- Insert a date or time
- Make sure a word is automatically corrected
- Automatically select or format an entire word
- Spelling
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Working with Graphics and Objects
- Insert WordArt
- About resizing and cropping an object
- Change the way pictures, WordArt, and OLE objects are displayed
- Change the text in WordArt
- Check the status of all pictures in a publication
- Graphic file formats and filters
- Copy and paste objects
- Apply the same height and width to different objects
- Resize an object
- About the scratch area
- Save a graphic
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Moving and Grouping Graphics and Objects
- Select and deselect an object
- About connector lines
- Align objects
- Align or distribute objects
- Arrange objects an equal distance from one another
- Rotate or flip objects
- Change the nudge distance
- About stacking objects
- Send an object to the back
- Turn on and off the Snap To commands
- Moving Objects
- Grouping Objects
- Inline Objects
- Troubleshoot Graphics and Objects
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Pictures
- Print full-resolution linked pictures
- View details on linked pictures
- Determine if a picture is a bitmap or a drawn picture
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Add, Edit, or Replace a Picture
- Add a picture
- Add a line of pictures
- Replace a picture with a different picture
- Add a picture directly from your digital camera
- Add a picture directly from your scanner
- Add or delete Adjust handles so you can change the shape of a picture's outline
- Add a margin without changing the size of a picture
- Undo changes to a picture
- Crop a picture
- Restore a picture to its original size or proportions
- Create transparent areas in a picture
- Change the contrast or brightness of a picture
- Convert a picture to a watermark
- Make a picture's background transparent or opaque
- About transparent areas
- Empty Picture Frame
- Design Gallery Objects
- Adding 3-D Effects and Shadows
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Linking and Embedding
- About linked objects and embedded objects
- Link or embed files
- Edit a linked object or embedded object
- Troubleshoot linked graphics
- Troubleshoot linked or embedded objects
- Convert a linked picture to an embedded picture
- Control how linked objects are updated
- Convert an embedded object to a file of another source program
- Save an embedded picture as a linked picture
- View a list of missing or modified linked pictures
- Update linked pictures that have been modified
- Graphics Manager
- Borders
- Shapes
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Printing
- Print a publication on a desktop printer
- About choosing between desktop, copy shop, and commercial printing
- Preview a page before printing
- Print a draft publication without graphics
- Cancel printing
- Print crop marks
- Print more than one copy
- About printing a booklet
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Print Setup
- Set properties for your desktop printer
- Checklist: Prepare a publication for desktop printing
- Create a bleed for your publication
- Set up a new printer
- Determine your desktop printer's nonprintable region
- Set the default printer
- Print multiple copies of a publication on a page
- Print a mirror image (as for a t-shirt)
- Connect to a network drive
- Printer Drivers
- Printer Options
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Commercial Printing
- Checklist: Prepare a publication for commercial printing
- Set up a publication for spot-color or process-color printing
- Output a CMYK composite of your publication
- Set advanced print options for commercially printed publications
- Prepare a publication for commercial printing
- Troubleshoot preparing files for commercial printing
- Print separations of your publication
- Print a composite of your publication
- About working with a printer to choose color
- Font tips for commercially printed publications
- Set up a publication for black-and-white or single-color commercial printing
- Select a larger paper size for commercial printing
- Troubleshoot using crop and bleed marks
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PostScript Printing
- Save your publication as a PostScript file for commercial printing
- Check whether you are using a PostScript printer driver
- Install the Generic Color PS for Commercial Printing printer driver
- Set PostScript output format
- Save a publication as a PDF file
- Save a page-independent PostScript file
- Save a publication as an EPS file
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Color Printing
- Change spot colors
- Select a Pantone spot color
- Fill an object or text with a Pantone spot or Pantone process color
- Convert a process color to a spot-color ink
- Convert a spot-color ink to a process color
- Convert a spot-color tint to a process color
- Add a new spot-color ink
- Delete excess spot-color inks
- Delete spot colors
- Duplicate a spot-color ink
- Compare printer and screen colors by printing a color sampler
- Pack and Go
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Trapping
- Turn automatic trapping on or off
- About trapping in Publisher
- About Publisher defaults for trapping borders, lines, and fills
- About knockouts and overprinting
- Change color options for trapping
- View current or default trapping settings
- Override or restore default trapping settings
- Troubleshoot trapping white objects and tables
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Troubleshoot Printing
- Troubleshoot using PaperDirect or Avery patterned papers
- Troubleshoot printing publications on a desktop printer
- Troubleshoot printing labels on a desktop printer
- Troubleshoot desktop printer settings
- Troubleshoot matching printer and screen colors
- Troubleshoot printing a poster, banner, or other large publication
- Troubleshoot printing a two-page layout or booklet
- Troubleshoot printing business cards
- Troubleshoot printing envelopes
- Troubleshoot printing scanned pictures
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Publisher and the Web
- About Web publications
- Web Pages
- Web Sites
- Web Servers
- Converting Publications
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Creating Web Sites
- Create a Web site
- Add a page to your Web site
- Plan your Web site
- Update a Web site
- Add keywords and a description for your Web site
- Specify the title and file name of a Web page
- About Web keywords
- Troubleshoot saving Web sites
- Test your Web site
- About Web fonts and font schemes
- Speed up downloading Web pages by using Vector Markup Language
- Tips for creating accessible Web sites
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Designing Web Sites
- Set the width of a Web page
- Change Web page text colors for hyperlinks
- Set a background color or texture for a Web site
- Add a pattern or color to the page background
- Troubleshoot Web background color or texture
- Add a background sound to a Web page
- Add an HTML code fragment to a Web page
- Make my text look the same in all browsers
- Publishing Web Sites
- Navigation Bars
- Hyperlinks
- Web Graphics
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Web Forms
- About Web form controls
- About assigning labels and values to form controls
- Create a pre-designed Web form
- Create a Web form and add form controls
- Label a form control
- Change or remove a hidden field
- Set Web form control properties
- Test an electronic form on the Web
- Troubleshoot Web forms
- Create form controls inline
- Research Services
- Translation Services
- Send E-mail
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Mail and Catalog Merge
- Insert merge fields
- Merge pictures into a publication
- Print merged publications
- Cancel a merge
- Change the look of merged text
- View how a publication will look with data merged into it
- Mail Merge
- Catalog Merge
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Data Sources
- Create a data source for a mail merge or a catalog merge
- Create an Address List for mail merge
- Change the data source for a mail merge or a catalog merge
- Change the order in which entries from a data source are merged
- Narrow the list of records that are merged
- Mail and Catalog Merge data sources used in Publisher
- About filtering and sorting in mail and catalog merge
- Sharing Information
- Automating Tasks and Programmability
- Security and Privacy
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Language-Specific Features
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Language Setup
- About Microsoft Proofing Tools
- About finding and replacing characters in Indic, South Asian, or right-to-left languages
- About the global interface and Microsoft Office Multilingual User Interface Pack
- Hyphenate text written in another language
- Check the spelling of text written in another language
- About multilingual features in Office
- Install system support for multiple languages
- Mark text as another language
- Requirements for specific languages
- Specify the language encoding for your Web site
- Enable editing of multiple languages in Office programs
- Locale identification numbers for language-specific files
- Use Visual Keyboard to work with different keyboard layouts
- Change the default country/region
- Use a keyboard layout for a specific language
- Troubleshoot working in a different language
- About text alignment for East Asian, South Asian, or right-to-left languages
- Unicode Support
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East Asian
- Automatically adjust character spacing for mixed East Asian and Latin text
- Enclose East Asian characters
- Insert full-width East Asian characters for date and time
- Reconvert Japanese, Traditional Chinese, or Simplified Chinese text
- Find and replace characters in East Asian text
- Select the font for East Asian and Latin text
- Set East Asian line break options
- Automatically adjust character spacing for East Asian text and punctuation
- Set Latin word wrap in East Asian text
- Add or remove phonetic guides
- Add or remove horizontal-in-vertical text format
- Add or remove emphasis marks
- Apply hanging punctuation to East Asian text
- Set indentation for East Asian text
- Set baseline alignment for East Asian text
- Turn on or off font substitution for missing East Asian characters
- Troubleshoot missing East Asian characters
- About font substitution for missing East Asian characters
- Input Method Editors (IMEs)
- Korean
- Indic
- South Asian
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Right-to-Left
- About right-to-left features in Office
- Find and replace characters in South Asian or right-to-left text
- Set alignment and text direction for right-to-left languages
- Set alignment for Kashida
- Add double quote for Hebrew alphabet numbering
- Set column direction right-to-left
- Set bi-directional mirroring
- About right-to-left sort order
- Specify spelling options for right-to-left languages
- Set the default text direction
- Set the default page order
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Language Setup