Alexiss,

Don't know if this will help you but...

I deal with many inputs to put out "our" newsletter each month.
I request that they just submit articles in text only format (txt).

I set up the new pub document and set the default to like, 10pt arial
text, so that when I copy from the submitted texts and paste into the
pub document, it's all 10pt arial.

So maybe if if set the initial default settings in a new pub document,
and then start adding the content from others, it might make it easier
for you :)

Hope that makes sense and sorta answers your inquiry and gives you a
work around idea :)

Steve

Alexiss, you make too much sense and must be assimilated,you are now
Borg, not human,
jmho ;)

In my experience, Publisher works just as well with Word content as
PowerPoint does. The main issue in copying and pasting Word content into
Publisher is that the default styles are different, and Publisher by
default formats Word pastes based on their styles rather than their
absolute formats. Fiddling with Paste Special options or the Paste Smart
Tag will normally fix this.

Huh? How does that question follow from my statement?

(Tables are not spreadsheets by the way - I've often made that point here)

...at the cost of either some of the original formatting, functionality
or editability.

I can.

Word and PowerPoint are both core Office programs. Publisher is more of
a peripheral application, and for a long time was in fact that black
sheep of the Office family.

It has a completely different design history. It works in different ways
in many aspects to the core Office programs; to make the "flow" more
"seamless" would require either sacrificing a lot of what makes
Publisher a great program in its own right or completely redesigning the
internal architecture from the ground up (which would probably lead to
the former, anyway).

You cannot copy and paste a Word document into Excel or PowerPoint and
have it look exactly as it originally did. You cannot paste an Excel
sheet into Word and have it fully functional (unless it pastes as an OLE
object, which requires that Excel be installed on the system, as you're
basically running Excel in Word. That is also doable with Publisher
documents). You cannot paste a PowerPoint presentation into Word and
have it work complete with animations. Some features are not compatible.
Moving between applications results in some formatting loss.

However, if you have a properly set up Word document (using styles to
define formatting sets rather than doing it typewriter-style) and a
properly set up Publisher document (with all desired text formatting
options set using styles) then pasting Word content into Publisher
should be better than good - it will automatically update your text to
match the appearance of the publication into which you're pasting.

You can throw around words like "flow" and "seamless" and stuff all you
like, and everyone will agree that that is a Good Thing and is
Desirable, but unless you can quantify exactly what that means and how
to accomplish it, then not everybody will understand what it means or
how to accomplish it.

I hope I'm managing to get my meaning across, even if it's not the most
eloquent post ever. I'll try and clarify it later if I'm not.