painter wrote:*There must be a better way. *

In a word (or two): FrontPage (or Dreamweaver).  Publisher is what i
is.  Except for a very few things (open new window, page name control
and hotlinks), we're better off not asking Publisher to be more lik
FrontPage because if it were, it would get much less conveneient to us
and we'd have one product instead of a choice of two.

Regarding Publisher, I've come to prefer only putting all the stati
graphics and objects on the master page.  For some of the reasons yo
mention, I create the text and overlying hot spots on a regular page
then copy/paste the collection to the rest.  This includes any button
which might change appearance from page to page.  The default butto
graphic is on the master page and the selected button graphic is on th
current page.

If you plan ahead, you can create all the basic stuff on your maste
page and page 1, then insert as many new pages as necessary as a cop
of page 1 using Insert/Page/Duplicate all objects.  You could also kee
one page reserved for this purpose without putting any content onto it.
This page could have the selected button graphics properly positioned o
it for later copy/paste to the page where you need them

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JWPlat
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