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
| The information in this article applies to: |
| - Microsoft Publisher version 2.0 |
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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