Reply To: Recommended reading/training for a designer who has to design in Word

Thanks David, I found that link earlier in prep for tackling the project and took notes from it. I will look at it again.

Both I and the client don't know what we are doing in Word most of the time, so cacky workrounds using multiple text boxes and picture fudges come into play, making it very difficult to a) figure what the client was thinking when they did what they did, b) find an acceptable solution, c) have the moral authority to enforce it.

Perhaps what I should do next is to try and find some Microsft-produced templates of newsletters and brochures and reverse engineer them to see how they put them together.

Alot of the desktop publishing models of thinking are similar, there are character and paragraph styles — but the actual building of the page is very different. One article described a Word document as containers inside containers inside containers, certainly the concept of a page being a finite object of particular size seems to be forgien with the Word document world.