When to Use Word—And When Not To
Should you use Word as a desktop publishing program, or should you use a different piece of software designed specifically for publishing? For example, it's one thing to create a monthly newsletter (or e-newsletter) for your sales force—a task for which Word is well suited. It's another to create a full-color brochure that depends on high-quality photography—which Word simply isn't designed to handle.
In general, consider using Word if
You're creating a fairly simple publication, especially one that can be built from one of Word's built-in templates or wizards.
You expect to customize your documents and need access to Word features such as mail merge to do so.
Your desktop-published document links to other documents ...
Get Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Word 2003 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
