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


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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Publisher version 2.0
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SUMMARY
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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
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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

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1993.