new additions to Publisher 2010 is the advanced OpenType typography capability. It enables you to add ligatures, stylistic and contextual alternates,
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, swashes, and numbering styles. If you're unfamiliar with typographic terms, take a look at this Beginners Guide to OpenType before we examine some of these features. Stylistic Sets First, let's look at what choosing different style sets can do, starting with the default stylistic set for Gabriola: And below is the seventh and most flamboyant stylistic set for Gabriola. You can get pretty flamboyant with these styles. You can see the effect that different selections will have on your text by highlighting the text and then,
Windows 7 Product Key, on the Text Box Tools Format tab, selecting the Stylistic Sets dropdown in the Typography group . As shown below,
Office 2010 Product Key, the Stylistic Sets dropdown (will show you all the style options for the selected text. Numbering Styles The numbering styles are more subtle. Below you can see the five different numbering styles available in the Calibri font. The biggest impact is in the Old-styles,
Windows 7 64 Bit, where the numbers float up and down instead of all staying to a baseline. Advanced feature support Unfortunately, most fonts do not yet support OpenType advanced typography,
Office 2007 Key, and some only support some of the advanced options. At this point the fonts that are installed with Publisher that support some or all of the advanced typographic features are: Calibri Cambria Cambria Math Candara Consolas Constantia Corbel Gabriola - note that this is a particularly rich font for advanced typographic features Palatino Linotype Sylfaen You can also find fonts and font packs online that support these features. You can find a list of font providers at Microsoft Typography - Font foundries. For more information on Publisher 2010's advanced typography features, see Use typographic styles to increase the impact of your publication. -- Bob deLaubenfels <div