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YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE FINAL FORMAT OF YOU GRAPHIC CREATION WILL BE.
Where will the documents you are creating be used in their final format? Is it a physical newsletter you will mail out? Is it an online catalog? What about an article to be published on a corporate website? In some cases your content will be published in several formats. For example, a newsletter may be sent by both email and mail.
For documents delivered entirely via the Internet, consider developing the document in an HTML editor like Adobe Dreamweaver or the free PageBreeze software. You can write HTML documents in Microsoft Word, but the final results can be inconsistent — they will look great in Internet Explorer (a Microsoft product) but may not look right in Firefox or Chrome.
For documents to be delivered in printed form, you have more decision-making to do. Text-based documents without a great deal of graphics can be developed in something like Microsoft Word. As soon as you have a lot of graphics, you should consider a more robust software tool like Adobe InDesign which gives you complete control of the final document.
For documents delivered in multiple formats, you should develop in whatever package you are most comfortable and transfer the content to the appropriate software for final development. For example, if you are writing a newsletter that you will send in the mail, as an email, and posted on the company website; you should focus first on writing quality content and transfer that content to each software package as needed.
You might write the document in Microsoft Word and transfer the content to InDesign for the mailer, to Dreamweaver for the email, and to WordPress for the company website.
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