So how do you know they were ever 'Word' objects? The mere fact you've seen something in another book - even a book about Word - doesn't mean that whatever you saw in the book was produced in Word.

Ultimately, you need to decide whether you want to spend the time it requires to learn how to exploit Word's full potential, or leave the layout issues to someone with the required tools (which probably aren't based on Word) and skills.

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I agree with Paul.

You can set a heading format to have a border and/or background as a part of the style definition. However, if you are handing this to a publisher, you are probably making their job harder. If you are self-publishing you can try the style.

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Hi Charles,

I agree with Paul too and certainly appreciate his help.

However, my book cannot be second rate graphically! I want to push Word to its limits. I have access to graphics designers. I just don't know how to tell them what I need in Word official terminology.

You can put the best content in the world into a book, if the graphics not good, it is a handicap. I don't know at the moment if it will be published directly from Word.

Setting the background & border graphics for Heading 1 (chapters) sounds good!

That solves one problem. Two other issues: fancy graphics textbox and fancy bullets?

SQLUSA: As I said before, if you want a particular format, show the designers. Clearly, you can do as as you've been able to show us. That is not the same as saying Word can or should be used to create those items. Your publisher almost certainly won't be using Word for the publication. Word is a word processor, not a page layout application like, say, Publisher (and few professionals use Publisher). And, despite what you say you want, your publisher quite probably has other ideas about what their publications should look like (as far as they're concerned, you're the author, not the publisher).

As for the various elements you've depicted in this (merged) thread, your 'Framed Shaded Box' and 'Fancy Graphics NOTE Textbox', for example, aren't something Word can do. Your 'fancy chapter heading' is doable so far as the number and text are concerned, but the background would require a graphics object placed behind the text. Word can do the placement, but not the graphic's creation. Word can do the bullets, quite easily.

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I found that Word 7 has a number of bullets styles beside the filled-in-circle.

I had my graphics designer design new chapter Heading 1 with background graphics. Extremely pleased.

I just have the Note textbox issue outstanding.

I am attaching a typical page. Open for improvement suggestions.

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