[Dedicated text editor]

Is there any chance of a separate dedicated text editor for Publisher so that magazine articles can be edited and styled up before putting them on page? It would be even more useful if it had the feature, available in Indesign, to send a collaborator a page shape so that an article can be edited into the correct format and sent back to whoever is in control of the magazine.  

[Feature Request: Preflight Document Checker]

It's not encouraging that there has been no official response to a very reasonable request posted in July.

[Style sheet initial word problem]

I am running Publisher 1.7 on Windows and have been trying to set up style sheets for a magazine. I have successfully created a body type style (9pt Roman, 3mm indent on first line, text justified) and a first paragraph style (Firstpar) with no indent on the first line. I have also set up a character style (Capword) which capitalises words in the body text. But when I added it to Firstpar to cap up the first word, the first word appears at three times its normal size, although Publisher claims the word is only 9pt. I can switch off Initial Word to format a first paragraph then cap up the first word using Capword separately but this is tedious. The magazine has a lot of listings and I need styles that will enable me to cap up and change the fonts of first words where necessary.