The Amstrad PCW 8256/8512 Word Processor is the best-selling cheap personal computer for individuals and small businesses. Most owners use it for word processing, to arrange ideas, to correct errors without retyping the rest of the text, and to modify text with the minimum of effort. Desktop Publishing (DTP) takes these activities a stage further: as well as helping in the arrangement of ideas, it also allows the user to arrange text and illustrations on the page for the most effective presentation. Desktop Publishing is usually taken to refer to hardware and software packages which incorporate everything that is necessary to produce text and illustrations using a computer. This book takes a less purist approach. As well as looking at the integrated DTP packages now available for the Amstrad PCW, it suggests ways of enhancing any material produced on the Amstrad intended for duplication, ways of including illustrations, and of generating visual aids. Throughout the book there are suggestions for embellishing the output with whatever methods are available and appropriate. The Amstrad Word Processor can be used to produce output as diverse as parish magazines or overhead projection transparencies. Busy teachers, would-be press barons and many others will find useful advice in this book. Michael Milan has written three other successful books for NCC Publications: Using the Amstrad Word Processor A Young Person s Guide to BBC Basic Disk Drive Projects for Micros | 
