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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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]