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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , =?UTF-8?Q?... winston=e2=80=ab?= writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , =?UTF-8?Q?... winston=e2=80=ab?= writes: Publisher, imo, isn't a bad program, but just too complex and not-intuitive thus a much deeper learning curve...once understood it's benefits are integration with the other Office suite products. I had no idea it still existed as a current product; what exactly does it _do_? (But then I've not grasped the point of OneNote either, or at least understood why it's worth the bother.) OneNote in the simplest definition is Notepad on steroids and then some. - think of it as a digital based notebook(personal information management, aka PIM) capable of handwritten or typed text, drawing, graphics and audio that can automatically save and syncrhonize notes/data. OK, so it's useful to tablet users, and those of a mindset very different from mine regarding how to manage things. I still don't know what Publisher does though (-: No, it's been part of Office for at least the last four(4, yes 4) Office versions first appearing in Office 2003. Not sure how you arrived at the tablet specific perception. -- ....winston msft mvp windows experience |
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote on 3/7/2016 2:36 AM:
In message , Ed Mullen writes: Blue Citizen wrote on 3/6/2016 6:37 PM: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" escreveu na mensagem ... "Can a blue man sing the whites?" Safe kids sometimes want adventure. -- Blue Citizen Oh, God! I'm stealing that for my sig file! Thanks! The "blue man" bit was from me (though I've got it from somewhere else), the "Safe kids" was from Blue Citizen. I meant the "blue man" one. :-) -- Ed Mullen http://edmullen.net/ Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but not to their crotch when they ask where the toilet is? |
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On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 01:48:37 -0700, ...winston?
wrote: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: I still don't know what Publisher does though (-: No, it's been part of Office for at least the last four(4, yes 4) Office versions first appearing in Office 2003. Not sure how you arrived at the tablet specific perception. Actually, it's been in (some editions ) of Office for considerably longer--in Office 97 it was in the Small Business Edition. |
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Ken Blake wrote:
On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 01:48:37 -0700, ...winston? wrote: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: I still don't know what Publisher does though (-: No, it's been part of Office for at least the last four(4, yes 4) Office versions first appearing in Office 2003. Not sure how you arrived at the tablet specific perception. Actually, it's been in (some editions ) of Office for considerably longer--in Office 97 it was in the Small Business Edition. The key to my reply was J.P.'s reply(which I mistakenly snipped) to my OneNote explanation where his/her reply commented that OneNote was 'useful to tablet users'. cf. J.P.'s comment about OneNote qp OK, so it's useful to tablet users, and those of a mindset very different from mine regarding how to manage things. /qp Thus my follow-up that OneNote(and correctly) first appeared in Office 2003 not tablet specific. Yes, you are correct on Publisher - first appearing in Office 97 as Publisher 98(aka 8.5). -- ....winston msft mvp windows experience |
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On 3/6/16 10:13 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , =?UTF-8?Q?... winston=e2=80=ab?= writes: Ken Springer wrote: [] I used Publisher back in the days when MS was trying to sell it as a stand alone product along side Office Professional 4.3. Some of the [] FWIW, Publisher isn't anything to be proud of. Quite a few programs do more, and more easily, than Publisher. One, at least, is free. G Publisher, imo, isn't a bad program, but just too complex and not-intuitive thus a much deeper learning curve...once understood it's benefits are integration with the other Office suite products. I had no idea it still existed as a current product; what exactly does it _do_? (But then I've not grasped the point of OneNote either, or at least understood why it's worth the bother.) Publisher is a page layout program in the vein of Quark Express, Pagemaker, and others. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.5 Firefox 44.0 Thunderbird 38.0.1 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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winston=e2=80=ab?= writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , =?UTF-8?Q?... winston=e2=80=ab?= writes: [] OneNote in the simplest definition is Notepad on steroids and then some. - think of it as a digital based notebook(personal information management, aka PIM) capable of handwritten or typed text, drawing, [] I still don't know what Publisher does though (-: No, it's been part of Office for at least the last four(4, yes 4) Office versions first appearing in Office 2003. Not sure how you arrived at the tablet specific perception. The handwritten text bit. I don't think I'm likely to use handwriting on anything with a keyboard - my writing's too bad (-:. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf I don't see the requirement to upset people. ... There's enough to make fun of without offending. - Ronnie Corbett, in Radio Times 6-12 August 2011. |
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In message , Ken Springer
writes: On 3/6/16 10:13 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: [] I had no idea it still existed as a current product; what exactly does it _do_? (But then I've not grasped the point of OneNote either, or at least understood why it's worth the bother.) Publisher is a page layout program in the vein of Quark Express, Pagemaker, and others. Thanks. I thought it was something like that (though I don't know the last two either). I presume it's more powerful at that than Word etc.'s own layout abilities. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf I don't see the requirement to upset people. ... There's enough to make fun of without offending. - Ronnie Corbett, in Radio Times 6-12 August 2011. |
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On 3/8/16 2:06 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Ken Springer writes: On 3/6/16 10:13 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: [] I had no idea it still existed as a current product; what exactly does it _do_? (But then I've not grasped the point of OneNote either, or at least understood why it's worth the bother.) Publisher is a page layout program in the vein of Quark Express, Pagemaker, and others. Thanks. I thought it was something like that (though I don't know the last two either). I presume it's more powerful at that than Word etc.'s own layout abilities. Quark Express and Pagemaker (now part of CS 7? from Adobe. There are others just as good as these two, and a variety all the way down to Publisher. Even a free one called Scribus. Others I know of are Calamus, Pagestream, Serif Page Plus, Apple's Pages (layout option probably similar to Word's). Not familiar at all with what's available in the Apple world other than top of the line and Pages. I've not played with Word's layout abilities, but can't imagine it's too impressive. Make me wonder if MS is planning to put the plug on Publisher. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.5 Firefox 44.0 Thunderbird 38.0.1 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 19:29:29 -0700, Ken Springer
wrote: On 3/8/16 2:06 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , Ken Springer writes: On 3/6/16 10:13 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: [] I had no idea it still existed as a current product; what exactly does it _do_? (But then I've not grasped the point of OneNote either, or at least understood why it's worth the bother.) Publisher is a page layout program in the vein of Quark Express, Pagemaker, and others. Thanks. I thought it was something like that (though I don't know the last two either). I presume it's more powerful at that than Word etc.'s own layout abilities. Quark Express and Pagemaker (now part of CS 7? from Adobe. There are others just as good as these two, and a variety all the way down to Publisher. Even a free one called Scribus. Others I know of are Calamus, Pagestream, Serif Page Plus, Apple's Pages (layout option probably similar to Word's). Not familiar at all with what's available in the Apple world other than top of the line and Pages. I've not played with Word's layout abilities, but can't imagine it's too impressive. Make me wonder if MS is planning to put the plug on Publisher. It's been a number of years now, but I used to publish three newsletters (one of them usually ran around 40 pages) for organizations I belonged to. I used WordPerfect to produce them, and it worked very well for me. Would Pagemaker or one of the other top publishing programs have done a better job? Probably, but it would have been a much greater effort for me to learn it. Would Microsoft Publisher have done a better job than WordPerfect? Possibly, but I doubt it. |
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On 3/8/16 8:08 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 19:29:29 -0700, Ken Springer wrote: On 3/8/16 2:06 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , Ken Springer writes: On 3/6/16 10:13 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: [] I had no idea it still existed as a current product; what exactly does it _do_? (But then I've not grasped the point of OneNote either, or at least understood why it's worth the bother.) Publisher is a page layout program in the vein of Quark Express, Pagemaker, and others. Thanks. I thought it was something like that (though I don't know the last two either). I presume it's more powerful at that than Word etc.'s own layout abilities. Quark Express and Pagemaker (now part of CS 7? from Adobe. There are others just as good as these two, and a variety all the way down to Publisher. Even a free one called Scribus. Others I know of are Calamus, Pagestream, Serif Page Plus, Apple's Pages (layout option probably similar to Word's). Not familiar at all with what's available in the Apple world other than top of the line and Pages. I've not played with Word's layout abilities, but can't imagine it's too impressive. Make me wonder if MS is planning to put the plug on Publisher. It's been a number of years now, but I used to publish three newsletters (one of them usually ran around 40 pages) for organizations I belonged to. I used WordPerfect to produce them, and it worked very well for me. Would Pagemaker or one of the other top publishing programs have done a better job? Probably, but it would have been a much greater effort for me to learn it. I'm constantly amazed by people. If I were to talk about photo editing, people immediately think they have to have Photoshop, followed immediately "It's so expensive." Why don't people say "I wonder if there's something else that will do what I need and is cheaper?" The same effect seems to affect every other category of software. CAD? AutoCad. Office Suite? MS Office. Vector drawing? Corel Draw (for those that know anything about vector drawing.) And so on. I haven't used much commercial software in years. There's always a free/shareware/inexpensive program out there that meets my needs. Would Microsoft Publisher have done a better job than WordPerfect? Possibly, but I doubt it. Agreed. A crayon could do better than Publisher. Now you know what I think of it. LOL -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.5 Firefox 44.0 Thunderbird 38.0.1 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 19:29:29 -0700, Ken Springer wrote: On 3/8/16 2:06 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , Ken Springer writes: On 3/6/16 10:13 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: [] I had no idea it still existed as a current product; what exactly does it _do_? (But then I've not grasped the point of OneNote either, or at least understood why it's worth the bother.) Publisher is a page layout program in the vein of Quark Express, Pagemaker, and others. Thanks. I thought it was something like that (though I don't know the last two either). I presume it's more powerful at that than Word etc.'s own layout abilities. Quark Express and Pagemaker (now part of CS 7? from Adobe. There are others just as good as these two, and a variety all the way down to Publisher. Even a free one called Scribus. Others I know of are Calamus, Pagestream, Serif Page Plus, Apple's Pages (layout option probably similar to Word's). Not familiar at all with what's available in the Apple world other than top of the line and Pages. I've not played with Word's layout abilities, but can't imagine it's too impressive. Make me wonder if MS is planning to put the plug on Publisher. It's been a number of years now, but I used to publish three newsletters (one of them usually ran around 40 pages) for organizations I belonged to. I used WordPerfect to produce them, and it worked very well for me. Would Pagemaker or one of the other top publishing programs have done a better job? Probably, but it would have been a much greater effort for me to learn it. Would Microsoft Publisher have done a better job than WordPerfect? Possibly, but I doubt it. Personally, I'm glad I never had to learn Publisher - it's way too complicated for my time. In the same light, I've had quite a few administrative assistants work for me that were Publisher wizards integrating Word, Excel, Access, Visio and PowerPoint data into Publisher documents. I doubt they could have done the same as easily with WordPerfect or, Word or any word processor. -- ....winston msft mvp windows experience |
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posted this via : I've had quite a few administrative assistants work for me Oh yeah, the MVP of Dumbass gets administrative assistants... because he has so much dumbass he can't possibly operate without assistance. -- I AM Bucky Breeder, (*(^; Resolve conflicts the American way : Rock - Paper - Scissors - Twitter War - Concealed Firearm .... and I approve this message! |
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Bucky Breeder wrote:
=?UTF-8?Q?...winston=e2=80=ab?= posted this via : I've had quite a few administrative assistants work for me Oh yeah, the MVP of Dumbass gets administrative assistants... because he has so much dumbass he can't possibly operate without assistance. Jealous. One day you might have assistants too, but being stuck in the mail room sorting junk mail seems right for your qualifications. Keep up the good work, you might even get promoted to stamp-licker one day -- ....winston msft mvp windows experience |
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On 3/11/16 3:11 AM, ...winston‫ wrote:
Bucky Breeder wrote: =?UTF-8?Q?...winston=e2=80=ab?= posted this via : I've had quite a few administrative assistants work for me Oh yeah, the MVP of Dumbass gets administrative assistants... because he has so much dumbass he can't possibly operate without assistance. Jealous. One day you might have assistants too, but being stuck in the mail room sorting junk mail seems right for your qualifications. Keep up the good work, you might even get promoted to stamp-licker one day Haven't you heard? Stamps are disappearing, so the grunt stamp-lickers like Bucky will simply be let go. I doubt if he qualifies for the position of Senior Stamp-licker. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.5 Firefox 44.0 Thunderbird 38.0.1 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 03:11:09 -0700
....winston‫ wrote: Bucky Breeder wrote: =?UTF-8?Q?...winston=e2=80=ab?= posted this via : I've had quite a few administrative assistants work for me Oh yeah, the MVP of Dumbass gets administrative assistants... because he has so much dumbass he can't possibly operate without assistance. Jealous. One day you might have assistants too, but being stuck in the mail room sorting junk mail seems right for your qualifications. Keep up the good work, you might even get promoted to stamp-licker one day You act just like the big eared mullato in the White House. |
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