Microsoft KB Archive/101550

Publisher 2.0: (SHORT) Feature Summary List PSS ID Number: Q101550 Article last modified on 07-29-1993 PSS database name: W_MSPub

2.00

WINDOWS

= SUMMARY =

This article summarizes the new and improved features of Publisher version 2.0. For a complete description of new and improved features, query on the following words in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

description and publisher and features and new and improved

= MORE INFORMATION =

Ease of Use:


 * New PageWizards
 * New templates
 * ClipArt Gallery
 * Layout Checker
 * Print Troubleshooter
 * First Time Help
 * Quick Demos
 * Cue Cards
 * Introduction to Publisher
 * Technical support information on-line
 * Keyboard guide to learn about keyboard shortcuts
 * Right-mouse-button shortcut menus
 * OLE 2.0 support (Publisher is the first Microsoft product to support OLE 2.0)
 * Expanded range of views (10 levels of zoom, up to 400 percent)

Text Handling:


 * Styles: create your own or import from any major word processor
 * New, improved WordArt that can use any TrueType font
 * “Continued on page x” and “continued from page x” notes at top and bottom of columns
 * Auto-jump to next column in story
 * Rotation of text by any degree (in WordArt only)
 * Improved typography (kerning, tracking, justification)
 * Auto-hyphenation
 * Smart quotes
 * Automatic bulleted and numbered lists, right from the toolbar
 * Drag-and-drop text
 * Optional Show All Characters mode
 * Import filters for all major word processors

Graphics and Design Features:


 * Irregular text wrap around graphics
 * More than 125 clip art images
 * Optional View Facing Pages mode
 * Tables right from the toolbar with autoformat, fill right, fill down, and drag-and-drop
 * Shape tool with 90-degree rotation, right from the tool bar
 * Grouping and aligning
 * Nudge control
 * Greater color support (256 colors)
 * Tile printing (posters and banners)
 * Paper Direct paper viewed on-screen

Publisher 2.0 also includes the following:


 * 17 new professionally-designed PageWizard design assistants
 * 35 professionally-designed templates
 * ClipArt Gallery, which you can use to view and categorize not only the clip art that comes with Publisher 2.0, but all of your existing clip art as well
 * 20 new TrueType fonts
 * New, improved version of WordArt that can use any TrueType font and includes many new special effects
 * Microsoft Draw

Additional reference words: 2.00 mspub advantages aspects improvements additions

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