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Microsoft Publisher

Course Outlines

Course Schedule

Course Description

This course is designed to enable the student to create a variety of publications using Publisher 2000.  This takes students beyond the basics by introducing features such as layout guides, the background, understanding frames, watermarks, etc.  The course includes hands on exercises and many valuable tips to make you a better desktop publisher.

 

Course Objectives 

  • To understand and to become comfortable with the Publisher screen and interface.

  • Learn how to create quick publications, using the Publisher design, color scheme, and layout wizards.

  • Learn to create your own publications from scratch by utilizing text frames, clip art, pictures, watermarks, and word art. 

  • Working with tables, lines, and the different shapes plus how to change these after is essential.

  • The students will get information about layering objects and how and when to make text frames become opaque for the desired results.

  • The end of class is a wrap up exercise where a student will try to put everything together that they learned that day.

Duration

The duration of the course is one day. This day begins at 8:30 am and ends at 4:30 pm.

Recommended Prerequisites

Windows ‘95 course or good experience already in the Windows 3.x/Windows ‘95 environment. Any past experience with graphics programs would be very beneficial.

Table of Contents

I Publisher's Screen & Interface 
A. The Publisher Screen
B. Show or Hide the Catalog on Startup
C. Always Show All Commands on the Menus
D. Using Undo & Redo
E. Mouse Shortcuts
II  Understanding & Creating Frames
A. Frames in Publisher 2000
B. Creating a Framed Object
C. Creating Drawing Objects
D. Deleting Objects
E. Moving & Sizing Objects
F. Rotating Objects
G. Filling & Lines on Objects
H. Changing the Defaults for New Objects
I. Arranging by Sending Objects Forward or Backward
J. Selecting Multiple Objects
K. Grouping Objects
L. Making an Object Transparent
III  Paper Size & Printer Setups
A. Understanding the Effects of Printer Setups
B. Two Ways to Create Special Fold Publications
C. What Sizes Can You Set in Publisher?
IV Setting Up a Blank Publication
A. Setting Up the Page Layout Guides
B. Adding in Other Ruler Guides
C. Snapping to a Guide
D. Working with the Background
E. Some Helpful Tips on Duplication Techniques
V Working with Text
A. Adding Text Into Text Frames
B. Linking Between Text Frames for Stories
C. Formatting Text Frames
D. Dividing Text Frames Into Columns
VI Tables & Word Art
A. Table Frames
B. Word Art Frames
VII Working With Clip Art
A. Inserting Clipart & Pictures
B. Cropping Pictures
C. Scaling Pictures
D. Coloring a Picture
E. Wrap Text or Overlay Pictures
F. Using Watermarks
VIII Object Linking & Embedding
A. The Concept
B. Setting Up an Object Linking or Embedding
IX

Publisher 2000 Odds & Ends
A. When Scanning, What Settings Should I Make?
B. Picture Formats That Publisher 2000 Can Import

 

 

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