Open Microsoft Publisher and create a new file. Microsoft Publisher has many pre-populated catalogue templates that can be adapted and used for publishing. Publishing Layout View does not exist in Word for PC, but all the individual functions that Publishing Layout View employs are present in both Mac Word and PC Word. Publishing Layout View simply helps inexperienced users by guiding them to use standard Word functions. Publishing Layout View in Mac Word is an intensive use of floating text boxes to create a document with more than one text 'flow' and fixed pagination. (it is also a horrid kludge.). You 'can' do these things in Word 2013, but it is very laborious and the document becomes very fragile and difficult to update or maintain. Normally people creating a magazine would use Word simply to create the text, then bring the text and pictures into a publishing program to produce the magazine. Professionals would use Adobe InDesign for this, but there are any number of free or cheap alternatives out there. You can even use Word for this (and I do.); just not Publishing Layout View. If you create an ordinary Word document with newspaper-style columns, section breaks to control the columns, tables to control layout, and text boxes for floating objects, you will very successfully create a magazine. You need to study the Word help to read up on 'Picture Placement' and 'Text Wrapping'. Publishing layout view does not bring any new capabilities to Word, it simply guides the user in the use of existing functions: those functions (and a lot more) all exist in PC Word, you just have to use them the Word 'native' way. Effectively, if you work the way PC Word works, on both sides of the fence, you will achieve your object; and the document will be a lot more stable and rugged and much easier to update. And you and your mate will be able to work quickly and productively without talking at cross-purposes. I hope this helps John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer.
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