The difference between Normal and Publishing templates

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# 3.3. The difference between Normal and Publishing templates

Before we begin with the tutorial, it is important that the difference between Publishing and Normal templates is clear in your mind.

Normal

  The Normal templates are designed to act like page-oriented wordprocessors. When you select a Normal template, you will create a template with one or more frames. The first frameset is distinctly ti ed to the paper size of your document. When you increase or decrease the paper size, the frame size is automatically adjusted. You are not able to move this frame around on the page and you cannot delete this frame. If you need to adjust the size or position of this frame, you must adjust the margins to adjust the frame position or size. On top of the first frame, you can, of course, add additional frames. These frames can contain pictures, text or whatever you want. These new frames can be moved, resized and deleted to suit your needs. If you want it, KWord will even wrap the text from the first frame around any information in any subsiquent frames.

Publishing

  These templates are designed for desktop publishing. When you select a template from this class, all of the frames are "created equal". This is where the difference between Publishing and Normal template lies. None of the frames in a Publishing template are tied to the page as tightly as the main frame in a Normal template is. Each of the frames is independent of the page size, and can be moved or resized without changing margins, etc. Of course this also means that altering the margins or papersize of your document requires that you individually move/resize each frame.

As you can see, the choice between Publishing and Normal templates is a choice between flexibility (Publishing) and convenince (Normal). You can create any document you like with either type of template.

If the concept of templates is unclear, please follow along with the following step by step. The first document you will create will use a publishing template. This should help clairify exactly how templates function.

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