Desktop+Publishing

Lesson 5 - Creating Various Publications

Ex. 33 - Flyer Wizard, On Your Own 33 Go to the design gallery objects (last button on left) to insert a logo. To use the logo wizard, click on the logo placeholder and follow the wizard. To add text to a tear-off, just click any of the tear-off segments and add the text. When you are finished, it will copy the text to the other tear-offs.

Ex 34 - Newsletter Wizard - ask me for a demonstration for this exercise.

Ex. 35 - Mailing labels and mail merge - ask me for a demonstration for this exercise.

Ex. 36 - Postcard Wizard - ask me for a demonstration for this exercise. Also, On Your Own 36

SKIP Exercise 37!!! Ex. 38 - Critical Thinking Ex. 39, Steps 1-7, 13 only

We're done with the textbook!!!

Birthday Newsletter project: DTP-birthday

Test - Lesson 4 click here: DTP-book

Your assignments for this unit are listed below. Scroll down further for previous units.

Lesson 4 - Working with Pictures and WordArt

Ex. 24 Remember you need to draw the placeholder befofre you select the clip art image.

Ex. 25, On Your Own 25 When you set a margin for a picture, you are determining how much space is between the picture and the surrounding text.

Ex. 26, On Your Own 26 When you use several lines to make a shape, you will not be able to color in that shape later. Use a rectangle or triangle shape rather than 3 or 4 lines so that you will be able to add a fill color.

Ex. 27, On Your Own 27 Publisher has more gradiants than what you've seen in other programs. Check out the shapes - like a star or starburst.

Ex. 28, On Your Own 28 You will need to draw a placeholder for your WordArt before you format it. WordArt in Publisher is not as flexible as it is in Word or PowerPoint.

Ex. 29 You'll be using the Arrange menu in this exercise.

Ex. 30 Do you remember discussing linking and embedding? When you embed an object into Publisher, it is a one-time copy. When you link an object, it can be updated. For example, if I embed an Excel spreadsheet into Publisher and later update the spreadsheet, Publisher will not update. But if I link it, it will update either automatically or manually.

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Lesson 3 Ex. 18, On Your Own 18 You'll go back to the wizard to change the publication layout and colors. See page 86 for how to create a new color scheme.

Ex. 19 Design Gallery objects can be found when you click on the icon for that - it is the bottom icon on the toolbar on the left side of the window. Design Checker will alert you for a few things you may want to change. You may or may not want to accept the changes - for example if you have changed the size of a picture and it is not in the same proportion as the original, or if there is text not showing on the document it will alert you to this.

Ex. 20, On Your Own 20 In Exercise 20 you will learn how to change the layout to a special size, or a fold - like a tri-fold brochure or folding the paper into fourths to make a greeting card. Special paper is pre-printed paper. Ask me to show you some samples. Be sure to read the procedures for moving layout and ruler guides.

Ex. 21 You can set up a page background. This is similar to the slide master we worked with in PowerPoint. The page background will show on each page. Some of your textbooks probably have a line at the top or bottom of each page. Rather than drawing it on every page, it is put in the page background and automatically appears on every page. When you are working with multiple page documents that use folded pages (think of a church bulletin or the FCS newsletter), Publisher will want to keep an even number of pages -so it will often ask if you want to insert 4 pages. You'll want to say yes to that.

Ex. 22, 23 Critical Thinking

Lesson 2, part 1:

Ex. 10, On Your Own 10 You will be chaning fonts, font styles and colors, drop caps and text effects. One new feature is "AutoFit text". Right click on the text box, click on change text, autofit text and pick best fit. Now as you resize the textbox, the font size will automatically change to fit the textbox. As you complete these exercises, refer to the procedures on page 46-47.

Ex. 11 Fill colors, borders. No On Your Own for this exercise.

Ex. 12, On Your Own 12 Do you remember center tabs, right tabs, decimal tabs in Word? Text will be centered below a center tab, right-aligned to a right tab and the decimal places will line up under a decimal tab. Indents, bullets and numbered lists all share a dialog box. Publisher does have the icon for bulleted and numbered lists, but if you need to change settings, click on Format - Indents and Lists.

Ex. 13, On Your Own 13 Format-Line Spacing - this is also where you change the points before or after (In Word it is in Format-Paragraph).

Lesson 2, part 2: Ex 14 We'll do this exercise together to set up styles.

Ex. 15, On Your Own 15 Tables

Ex. 16 Ex. 17 Critical Thinking

Now you're ready for the test for Lesson 2.

Lesson 1:

We're starting Microsoft Publisher. Since you have already completed courses in Word and PowerPoint, this should be easy for you - at least at the beginning of our text. Many of the exercises have - may I be blunt - ugly color combinations. Feel free to change colors whenever you want to. Do not print any of these exercises (you know how I love paper!!!)

Please complete the following assignments:

Ex 1, On Your Own 1 Publisher has wizards and templates (quick publication) to get you started. You will start by selecting a layout. Then Publisher will ask for personal information - it stores this information so that when you need to add it, you won't need to type it again. This exercise will take only a few minutes to finish. For the On Your Own exercise, you are just starting a publication - you do not need to finish the poster - just select a layout and choose a color scheme.

Ex 2, On Your Own 2

Ex 3, On Your Own 3 Remember when you resize a picture that you keep the aspect ratio - drag from the corner to keep the height/width proportion the same.

Ex 4, On Your Own 4 The objects toolbar runs down the left side of your screen. The A near the top of the toolbar is used for a text frame.

Ex. 5 Read the directions carefully - it will have you undo and redo.

Ex 6 Update personal information by clicking on Edit - personal information. You can then insert this information by clicking on Insert - Personal Information.

Ex. 7, On Your Own 7 - For Ex. 7, step 4, click on Edit, then Edit story in Microsoft Word. This takes the text to Word and allows you to work on it there. When you are done in Word, DO NOT close the window. Click on File, Close & Return to Word.

Ex. 8 and Ex. 9 - these are the critical thinking exercises. There are no On Your Own exercises.

You are now ready for Test 1. Due: Friday,March 12