Keeping in touch and communicating with customers is essential for any business. A complete business publishing and marketing materials solution, Microsoft Publisher 2003 can help you reach out to customers. With Publisher 2003, its easier than ever to design, create, and publish professional marketing and communication materials in-house. Publisher 2003 is a comprehensive solution for creating and publishing a wide variety of publications for desktop printing, commercial printing, e-mail distribution, or viewing on the Web. Create a comprehensive selection of business publications using new wizards, such as the Easy Web Site Builder and the E-Mail Newsletter wizard. Or, create print publications, including brochures, newsletters, postcards, CD or DVD labels, and other publications.
Create personal publications using an expanded collection of templates, including personal stationery sets and professionally designed greeting cards and invitations. Automatically create a publication that merges pictures and text from a data source (like Microsoft® Excel or Microsoft® Access) using Catalog Merge to create publications ranging from a datasheet to a sophisticated catalog. Work more flexibly with commercial printers for higher quality and larger quantity print jobs, with new support for process-color—or cyan-magenta-yellow-black (CMYK)—composite postscript files. Make the most of the time you invest in your work by publishing a single publication in multiple ways: Print it to your desktop printer; take it to a commercial printer; save it to the Web; or send a single page in an e-mail message or the entire publication as an attachment.
Main Features
New - Publication Task Pane. Use new categories from the New Publication task pane. Choose to start your design by publication type (for print, e-mail, or the Web), by a specific Design Set, or from a blank publication.
New - 10 new Master Design Sets. Create a consistent look across business publications with new Master Design Sets, which are collections of templates that carry a consistent design theme across publications. Choose from 45 Master Design Sets in Publisher 2003 Improved Features.
Enhanced support for the Web. Create a marketing Web site with new Web site wizards, built-in support for more than 20 new Web page types, enhanced navigation bar support, and other improved features. You can make changes easily by uploading incremental changes to a Web file. Or, create print publications, including brochures, newsletters, postcards, CD or DVD labels, and other publications.
Make the most your time. Increase your efficiency by publishing a single publication in multiple ways: Print it to your desktop printer; take it to a commercial printer; save it to the Web; and send a single page in an e-mail message or the entire publication as an attachment.
Increased Flexibility. Benefit from increased flexibility during the planning and layout phase. You can insert empty picture frames as placeholders before youve selected final imagery for your publication.
Expand your template collection. Expand your collection of content by downloading templates from Templates on Microsoft Office online. Organize and access them in the Templates category of the New Publication task pane.
Create impressive marketing materials for desktop printing, commercial printing, e-mail distribution, or viewing on the Web. Includes a comprehensive collection of business publications – brochures, newsletters, postcards, business cards, and more, as well as new Web site and e-mail wizards.
Catalog Merge. Merge text and pictures from a data source, such as Excel or Access, to create a new publication with multiple records per page.
New e-mail publications and support. Use new e-mail wizards to create e-mail newsletters and more.
Office online template gallery. Expand your collection of Publisher templates. Quickly locate them in a new Template category in the new publication Task Pane.
Professional Design, Done In-House. From professionally designed templates that you can customize with color schemes, font schemes, various layout options, and your own design sense. Or, start from blank publications and get creative with sophisticated typography and page layout tools.
System Requirements
Hard Disk 500 MB.
Memory 128 MB RAM.
Processor 500 MHz.
Platform Win 2000 with Service Pack 3 or later, or Win XP or later.