I disagree. Word is 1000 times more powerful than Publisher. I would recommend Publisher for flyers and labels, maybe a school newsletter, but not for a significant project. If you paste into Publisher, what happens to your style references, TOC, cross-references, index, citations, footnotes, endnotes, and fields? It seems unlikely to me that dynamic content would survive. I'd never trade a good word processor for textboxes. I mentioned that linked textboxes were an option, because I thought the topic might come up. But it is my experience that you lose way too much functionality when you use textboxes. You can't wrap text around pictures, use endnotes or footnotes or create a table of figures. The usefulness of styles is compromised... you can't cross-reference a paragraph by style, (for example, you can't use a field so the chapter title is in the header so if the chapter title changes, the header automatically changes too). Textboxes render the Document map / Navigation pane useless. Aargh! I could not survive without the Document map! Same same for Outline View... useless when using textboxes.