Microsoft Publisher Intro

Prerequisites
No experience of Microsoft Publisher is necessary.

Benefits
Course Objective: You will create, manage, revise, and distribute publications.

Course Content

Creating a New Publication

• The Publisher Desktop
• Navigating Around Your Publication
• The Save Reminder

Working with a Publication

• Adding Content to Your Publication
• Inserting & Deleting Pages Selecting Objects
• Moving & Sizing Objects
• Deleting Objects
• Modifying the Page Setup
• Working with the Publication Background

Working with Text Frames

• Inserting & Manipulating Text Frames
• Editing Articles in Word
• Fonts & Other Text Effects
• Alignment
• Bullet Points & Numbering
• Moving, Copying & Deleting Text
• Connecting & Disconnecting Frames
• Importing Text
• Spell Checker/ Search and Replace

Adding Graphics

• Inserting a Picture Frame & the Clip Art Gallery
• Inserting a Picture from a File & Moving and Sizing Pictures
• Cropping a Picture

Printing

• Modifying the Printer Setup & Printing

Advanced Graphic Techniques

• Inserting Pictures Not in the Gallery
• Scaling Pictures
• Re-colouring Pictures
• Rotating Pictures
• Adding Borders & Shadows
• Inserting Pictures from the Internet
• Customising the Clip Art Gallery

Advanced Text Techniques

• Fancy First Letters
• Format Painting
• Styles
• Changing the Defaults for Text Frames
• Controlling The Defaults for Text Frames
• Working with Special Characters and Controlling Line & Character Spacing
• Adding Patterned Backgrounds

Special Effects

• Borders & Border Art
• Inserting, Moving, Re-sizing, Patterns & Gradients

Advanced Layout Techniques

• Working With the Ruler
• Working with Ruler & Layout Guides
• Aligning Objects
• Layering Objects
• Nudging & Grouping Objects

The Design Checker

Word Art

• Creating Word Art & Changing Text Formatting
• Shaping Options, Character Spacing & Special Effects
• Editing a Word Art Object

Tables

• Adding a Table
• Selecting & Modifying Cells
• Formatting Table Data

The Design Gallery

• Inserting a Design Gallery Object
• Replacing Selected Objects
• Applying Attributes from a Design Gallery Object
• Customising the Design Gallery