Publisher Layout is an interface trick in Word 2011. It uses text boxes to simulate a page layout, but it's still just a Word file. In 2016 for both Mac and Windows, you are seeing the real layout behind the Publisher Layout cosmetics. But maintaining your dependence on 2011 is a short-term strategy. You might take a look at an inexpensive true page layout program like.
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By Geetesh Bajaj, James Gordon. You can add static guides, which are guide lines to help you align objects in the Publishing Layout view of Word 2011 for Mac. You can see the guides by clicking the Office 2011 for Mac Ribbon’s Layout tab, finding the Guides group and clicking the Show button, and then choosing whichever guides setting suits you best.
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