Lots of great feedback/discussion so far (on what can be a dry subject). :-) I'm building reseller and end user training courses for a 1U network management appliance. Plenty of screen shots from the Java GUI in a browser. Some theory diagrams on proxying SNMP, HTTP and UDP. What I need to end up with is a set of slides that I can send to a LCD projector when doing training. And a student handbook with the same slides and accompanying text notes. And the really sweet piece to add would be instuctor notes for clarification of topics. MS PowerPoint does OK with most it by creating slides with the graphic and using the Notes page area for the text. I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO BECOME A VISUAL BASIC PROGRAMMER TO CREATE DOCUMENTS!!!! (slam fist on desktop to get the audio that goes along with above statement) :-) 1. The Table of Contents generator in PowerPoint is a macro? Not as configurable as TOC in MS Word. 2. Don't think I can create an Index in PowerPoint. 3. Really $%#$^#$%$ me off that I can't reference the slide title in the Notes page master header. There should be a way of sticking fields into PowerPoint like Word does. 4. PowerPoint doesn't support layers which would help with having different notes printed. Also doesn't support multiple page/slide Masters which would be nice. Don't need any fancy setup stuff for a professional printer since we'll pump them out of a laser printer as needed. -----Original Message----- From: Gerhard Fiedler Sent: Nov 14, 2004 9:50 AM To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Subject: Re: [EE]: Desktop publishing for training manuals > I have used Framemaker, Quark Express, InDesign, Pagemaker, and about a > dozen other desktop publishing programs. My favorite is Corel Ventura 10. I generally use Microsoft Word (which I have anyway) for such things. What is it that you are missing in Word that these publishing programs provide? The only feature that I'm missing (or that I know of that I'm missing :) is flow of text between multiple text boxes, and most of the time I can work around this somehow. Gerhard _______________________________________________ http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist _______________________________________________ http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist