Word 2000: Almost a Full-Fledged Desktop Publishing Program

What program comes with the capability to create multicolumn layouts, smoothly import any kind of graphics, use slick design techniques such as drop caps, even embed fonts for delivery to a typesetting machine? Hint: It's the same program that provides built-in brochure and newsletter designs, custom fonts, clip art images, and drawing and font effects software. Yes, Word 2000 does all that.

Word isn't quite a full-fledged desktop publishing program. But if you know your way around Word, you can create a pretty fair newsletter or brochure. In the preceding two chapters, you've learned about many of the features you can use to build visual documents, including

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