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MS Office Forum / Publisher / General MS Publisher Questions / May 2008Fill Effects in Publisher 2007
I used to have Publisher 2000 on my old computer. I've since upgraded to Vista and Publisher 2007, and all-in-all the new version is superior. However, I just went to do a fill effect for the background of a picture in my document, and I discovered much to my disappointment that many of the fill effect patterns from Publisher 2000 that were kind of cool seem to be gone. I'm referring to the simple fade-in / fade-out type patterns where you can select multiple colors to blend into one another following a pre-set geometric shape. Publisher 2000 used to have many more shapes than I have now - there used to be a variety of spirals, stars, arrows, and so forth to choose from. Now there are only some basic variations on horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and "from center". I want to know if there is any way to install just those fill effect patterns from either my old Publisher 2000 CD or from some other source so that I once again have access to them; or is it possible to have both versions of Publisher installed and functional at the same time on my computer? Thanks for any help you can give. > I used to have Publisher 2000 on my old computer. I've since upgraded > to Vista and Publisher 2007, and all-in-all the new version is [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > installed and functional at the same time on my computer? Thanks for > any help you can give. ================================== Both versions can run on the same computer. Within the limits of your computer resources you could actually run several instances of both programs at the same time.  SignatureJohn Inzer Digital Media MVP Notice This is not tech support I am a volunteer Solutions that work for me may not work for you Proceed at your own risk Thanks so much! So then if I create the fill effect I want in Pub 2000, is it also possible to cut and paste just that item easily between the two programs? > > I used to have Publisher 2000 on my old computer. I've since upgraded > > to Vista and Publisher 2007, and all-in-all the new version is [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > you could actually run several instances of both > programs at the same time. > Thanks so much! > So then if I create the fill effect I want in Pub 2000, is it also > possible to cut and paste just that item easily between the two > programs? ========================== Sure, that should work nicely. SignatureJohn Inzer Digital Media MVP Notice This is not tech support I am a volunteer Solutions that work for me may not work for you Proceed at your own risk Only certain gradients will paste correctly. For instance most of the shapes will not. I haven't tried them all but it looks like they are not going to work. The straightforward gradients work for the most part. It would be nice to have the spiral gradient paste okay. SignatureMary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com >> Thanks so much! >> So then if I create the fill effect I want in Pub 2000, is it also >> possible to cut and paste just that item easily between the two >> programs? > ========================== > Sure, that should work nicely. > Only certain gradients will paste correctly. For instance most of the > shapes will not. I haven't tried them all but it looks like they are > not going to work. The straightforward gradients work for the most > part. It would be nice to have the spiral gradient paste okay. ============================== Ooops... Thanks for the correction, the ones I tried worked ok but I had not tried the spiral gradient. If sort of half way works if you create a .pdf in Pub 2000 and then open the .pdf and go to...Edit / Copy file to clipboard...and paste the result in Pub 2007. SignatureJohn Inzer Digital Media MVP Notice This is not tech support I am a volunteer Solutions that work for me may not work for you Proceed at your own risk That is too much work. If you create an auto shape and use the gradient fill, it looks about the same, especially if you use the transparency. SignatureMary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com >> Only certain gradients will paste correctly. For instance most of the >> shapes will not. I haven't tried them all but it looks like they are [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > to...Edit / Copy file to clipboard...and paste > the result in Pub 2007. > That is too much work. If you create an auto shape and use the > gradient fill, it looks about the same, especially if you use the > transparency. ========================== Thanks Mary... SignatureJohn Inzer Digital Media MVP Notice This is not tech support I am a volunteer Solutions that work for me may not work for you Proceed at your own risk
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