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Microsoft Publisher? I know that you can set up your own styles but I want
to change the Normal Template so that the Times New Roman 10 point is
replaced by something more realistic and especially, more readable. I don't
know about anyone else but I'm usually working in Full Page or nearly Full
Page view and I can barely see 10 point let alone read it; I always have to
change that setting. The software will let you change this setting for the
current session under the Format/Text Style menu item, but it won't allow
you to apply this setting to the default template. Next time you start up,
you're back to Times New Roman 10 point! I guess that the setting exists as
a registry key, but I'm blowed if I can find it. This fundamental facility
didn't exist in Pub 97 or 98 either.
TIA
Pete
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defaults you could set as your opening document or just for one publication.
I presume by your comments you must be using Pub2000
Publisher 2000 http://www.milton.com/pubtips/normal.pub/
Publisher 97
You can do this for only one publication, or you can save it for all
publications that you open as a blank page.
To do it for the document you are currently working on only:
Select the Text Box Tool (DO NOT make a Text frame)
Select the Font you want to use
Select the Font size you want to use
You can also select any other attributes like bold or italic, text frame
properties
Then select the Arrow.
If you want to change this for all your future publications, and you can now
specify many other things like:
Layout Guides
Table Frame Properties
Table Frame Text (same as for Text Frames above)
Snap to Ruler Guides
Snap to Objects
Snap to Guides
Shadows to Pictures/Objects
Any item under the View menu
Measurements under the Tools menu then Options.
Now save this Publication as the name NORMAL.PUB and in the save dialogue
box select the TEMPLATE box and also if you want you can select the PREVIEW
box and now select SAVE.
You now have to shut Publisher down and reopen it, and the document you just
made will now always be your default document when you open Publisher and
select Blank Page.
PC
DA <squ...@apexmail.com> wrote in message
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> It most certainly did exist in Publisher 97 along with all the other
> defaults you could set as your opening document or just for one
publication.
>
> I presume by your comments you must be using Pub2000
> Publisher 2000 http://www.milton.com/pubtips/normal.pub/
>
> Publisher 97
> You can do this for only one publication, or you can save it for
Hi!
Thanks for the post. I am using Pub 2000. Your fix is for Pub 97 I think,
where you say it is possible to alter the Normal template. I only used that
version for a few months at the beginning of my PC learning-curve and I
don't really want to return to it. Sorry if my assertion was incorrect, I'd
assumed that it shared this common 'feature'!
The method you suggest doesn't appear to work in 2000, where the Save as
Template dialogue doesn't take you to the home of the NORMAL template but
just to the file that holds other templates you have created. In any case,
Clicking on the Text Box Tool doesn't pull up any Text Formatting options on
the Formatting Bar, these only appear when you actually create a Text box.
The only way to proceed without a Text Box is through Format...Text Style
and then you come up against the problem that you can't save to the Normal
Template because you can't navigate to it. You can create a new Normal
Template in that directory, but that isn't picked-up by Publisher on a
re-start because it's looking elsewhere for the 'real' template. I've
searched the system for this file and so far as I can see, it doesn't exist,
at least, not as a Publisher File. If you create a Text Box, things look
hopeful because you are offered the option to change the existing template's
Text Style
under Format....Text Style, but the option to APPLY your modifications to
is greyed out, HEY! it's always greyed out! Even for new
templates that you've created! What's it there for? Can you help some more
please! Where does the NORMAL template live and
can you change it?
Am I being Dim or is this the way things are for Pub 2000?
Thanks again for your help, please be patient!
Brian Kvalheim - [MVP]
As David mentioned:
http://www.milton.com/pubtips/normal.pub/
This link will give you the normal .pub that you need, as well as the
placement to save the normal.pub file.
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Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft
Publisher MVP
DA
Quote
"I presume by your comments you must be using Pub2000
Publisher 2000 http://www.milton.com/pubtips/normal.pub/"
You do have to click on the Template button as unfortunately there is no way
to get Publisher 2000 to open using a default document. You can however set
the majority of settings of the old Normal.pub in Pub 2000. Hopefully the
next version of Publisher will revert to the old style Normal.pub which is
excellent.
PC
right straight away given their combined IQ. They do seem to have a knack of
building in a crippler or two into every generation of software just to make
sure you'll upgrade. It's a good package though!
Regards
Pete
DA <squ...@apexmail.com> wrote in message
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John Kajfes
because that's I used most of the time...
I decided to located the original normal.pub in my system so did a search
for it... nothing came up for this file anywhere... simply didn't exist! Is
that possible? I've never looked for or created this file previously. I did
this because I wanted to located where it was stored in my system.
I looked at the website reference... and followed those instructions...
works... new blank pubs are defaulted to Tahoma 9pt... whatever...
regards
John