If you work with others, it's just easier to share documents in a WP format that using Publisher. If you've done your writing in a WP application, and use Publisher just for the layout, if you have to start again (and I've had to a couple of times, both with InDesign and Publisher), at least you only have to redo the layout, not the writing.ģ. Desktop Publishing applications, compared with Word Processors, are resource-intensive, and if they suffer a catastrophic failure, if may be more difficult to retrieve your work than if you've also used a WP for the core text. This may not be an issue for you if your project is small and relatively simple, but this is something Affinity needs to improve. Even small additions or changes to text can take age to action on the page.
Publisher slows down the larger and more complicated a document gets. The Find and Replace tools are also better than InDesign's.Ģ. Publisher is definitely much better in this regard. Certainly with InDesign, word processing features such as spell check and word count are really, really clunky (and I'm not sure InDesign has spell check). It probably does exist, and I need to play around with it a bit more to find out how to do it.Ĭlick to expand.If it works for you, go for it! Part of my cautioning is that.ġ. You can adjust the style of a single frame and then any new frames will default to the style that you gave the last frame you were working on, but there doesn't seem to be - or at least I haven't found yet - a way to have a variety of predefined text frame styles from which you can select which one to use for a particular frame. the default workflow seems to be that you change the formatting of the text itself directly on the page, and then when you're happy you push that change back to the Paragraph/Character styles and the changes are then propagated to other text that has the same styles.įor Character and Paragraph styles that seems pretty straightforward, but I haven't yet found how to do frame styles for different types of text frame. In Publisher, from what I've seen, you do it the other way around. You never actually change the styling of the text itself directly on the page. In InDesign, the link between the text on the page and the Paragraph/Character styles is mostly one-way in that you set up the styles in their own panels, and then the changes you have made are applied to the text when you hit 'Ok' (although you do have the option to preview the changes as you make them). Have questions or feedback about Office VBA or this documentation? Please see Office VBA support and feedback for guidance about the ways you can receive support and provide feedback.Click to expand.Yeah, they're all things I'm familiar with from InDesign, and it's the differences in how to set them up that I'm having to learn.įrom what I can see, the big difference in workflow is that for styles the workflow goes the opposite way in Publisher to in InDesign. MasterPages(1).Shapes.AddShape(Type:=msoShape5pointStar, _
This example adds a red star in the upper-left corner of the master page so that it shows up on each page it then adds a few new pages and sets one of the pages to ignore the master page so that the shape doesn't show on it. SyntaxĮxpression A variable that represents a Page object.
True for Microsoft Publisher to ignore the master page formatting for the specified page.