DTP

[Ginbottle]

What can be done on DTP that cannot be done on Microsoft Word?

[alicevida]

Microsoft Word is a word processing package and DTP stands for desk top publishing, which is usually used as a generic term for making pages up - or typesetting them, importing and positioning photos and pictures, and generally getting material ready for publication.

[Waterwolf]

Depends on the package really. But talking generally, there are many things you can do with Word that you can also do with a DTP package, like positioning pictures. However, you'd be better using DTP for such things. That's because a word processor treats a document as linear, while DTP packages treat a page as a jigsaw of different elements. So it's much easier to arrange the elements of a page in DTP. (If this doesn't make any sense, let me know and I'll try to be a bit clearer.)