New publication types   Create a wider variety of publications in Publisher. Publisher offers the following new or improved publication types:

• Enhanced greeting cards and invitation cards   Select from an extensive collection of professionally-designed greeting cards and invitation cards, and then customize the contents to create your own unique cards. You can customize the layout, color, and design of each card. You can also customize your cards by choosing an appropriate verse from an extensive selection of greeting card verses. By selecting different design, layout, color, and verse combinations, you can create a virtually limitless array of unique cards.
• CD/DVD labels   Create professional-looking labels for CDs and DVDs. You can also create coordinated inserts for CD/DVD cases.
• Personal Stationery Sets  Use one of the Personal Stationery Sets to create a coordinated set of address labels, letterhead, envelopes, and business cards for personal or business use.
• More Web site wizards   Create a professional-looking Web site by starting with one of the new Web Site Wizards: 3-Page Web Site, Product Sales, or Professional Services. Or use the Easy Web Site Builder to create a customized Web site that contains the page types that are appropriate to your specific needs. Publisher also offers an expanded selection of individual Web page types that you can select from to build your Web site one page at a time.
• E-mail publications   Create professional-looking e-mail messages that have the same high quality look and design as your print publications. Create and send attractive, high-impact e-mail messages by choosing among the following E-mail Wizard options:
  • Event/Activity
  • Event/Speaker
  • Featured Product
  • Letter
  • Newsletter
  • Product List

Multiple master pages   Create several background pages that you can apply to your publication pages. Multiple master pages provide a more versatile means of incorporating commonly used design elements throughout your publication.

Enhanced paragraph formatting   New options for paragraph formatting let you precisely define the relationship between one paragraph and the paragraphs that precede or follow it. In the new Line and Paragraph Breaks tab (Format menu, Paragraph dialog box), you can do the following:

• Keep paragraphs or lines of text together wherever text flows across text boxes in your publication.
• Eliminate the problem of widowed or orphaned paragraph fragments.
• Create paragraph breaks that start in the next connected text box.

Improved Design Checker   The Design Checker provides customized checks to give you just the information you want for the specific type of publication you are working on. You can check your publication for problems before you print it to a desktop printer, take it to a commercial printer, or publish it to the Web. You can choose to have the Design Checker automatically fix many of the problems it finds in your publication. The Design Checker will also give you detailed information for each problem, as well as a description of how the problem may affect your work.

Merge pictures   Use the Mail and Catalog Merge Wizard to merge both text and pictures from a data source into publications when you perform either a mail merge or a catalog merge. Create individually customized publications with mail merge, or use catalog merge to create illustrated product catalogs or photo albums. In order to merge pictures into your publication, you must include the path or file name for each picture file that you want to use in the relevant data field of your data source.

New Web site wizards   Quickly create a polished, professional Web site by starting with one of the new Web site wizards. New Web site wizards include:

• 3-Page Web site
• Product Sales
• Professional Services

Multiple navigation bars   New and enhanced features help you add and edit navigation bars in Publisher. You can add, remove, or change links on a navigation bar, or change the design or button style of a navigation bar. Publisher also allows you to add secondary navigation bars to a Web site to create a navigation structure for your site.

Easier access to Web site options   When you are working in Web mode, Publisher makes it easy to access and specify settings for your Web site. Select page-specific options in the Web Page Options dialog box (Tools menu, Web Page Options command). Select site-wide options on the Web tab of the Options dialog box (Tools menu, Options command).

Enhanced compatibility   Send your publications as e-mail messages using Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003 and Microsoft Outlook Express. Publisher e-mail publications now have enhanced compatibility, allowing recipients to read them in HTML-enabled mail clients such as Hotmail, AOL, and Yahoo, as well as Outlook.

Easier to create and print separations   New advanced print settings let you create separations directly from the Print dialog box. Now you can do the following:

• Print plates for a single process-color or spot-color ink.
• Set custom line screen frequencies and line screen angles for individual spot colors.
• Convert spot colors to process colors in the Print dialog box.

Enhanced color controls   Create and manage colors and inks in your publication. It's now much easier to change or replace inks and colors. You can also choose to maintain tint or luminosity when replacing one spot-color ink with another.

Easier to work with pages   The new page sorter makes it easy to rearrange the pages in your publication. Use the page sorter to drag and drop pages from one location to another, or to quickly go to a specific page in your publication. You can use the page sorter to insert, rename, duplicate, or delete pages. You can also use the page sorter to apply master pages.

Panning across the workspace   If your mouse has three or more buttons, you can use the third and fourth mouse buttons to pan across the workspace to get a better view of objects on your page or in the scratch area.