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With this Learn Microsoft® Publisher 2003 tutorial you will learn:
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Lesson One Lesson Two Lesson Three

Section 1 - Introduction

Section 2 - The Publisher Environment

  • Title bar
  • Minimize/Maximize/Restore/Close buttons
  • Menu bar
  • Explore default settings
  • Intelligent menus
  • Toolbars
  • Move handles
  • Standard and Formatting toolbars
  • Connect toolbar
  • Objects toolbar
  • Insert Hyperlink button
  • Open Design gallery
  • Objects by category
  • Objects by design
  • My objects
  • Smart Objects Wizard
  • Help menu
  • Status bar
  • Workspace
  • Task pane defined
  • Open Task pane
  • Moving the Task pane
  • Wizards
  • Turning off the Office Assistant
  • Using Publisher templates
  • Using design sets

Section 3 - Starting a Project

  • Design gallery
  • Design Wizard
  • Information Wizard
  • Zooming in and out
  • Change view size
  • Going through multiple page documents
  • Delete pages
  • Saving publication
  • Creating folders
  • Hide Office Assistant
  • Reformatting columns
  • Color scheme defined
  • Change color scheme
  • Font scheme defined
  • Change font scheme

Section 4 - Inserting Text

  • Text as an object
  • Creating text frame
  • Replacing text in boxes
  • F9 to zoom and return to view
  • Select text in boxes
  • Inserting text into boxes
  • Overflow text from column to column
  • Delete text boxes
  • Position points on rulers

Section 5 - Text Boxes

  • Reformatting text in boxes
  • Reformatting text boxes
  • Adding fill color to boxes
  • Adding gradient fill effect
  • Adding transparency effect to box
  • Adding shading styles and variants
  • Changing line styles
  • Using the design checker
  • Changing design checker options

Section 6 - Inserting Images

  • Adding clip art
  • Grouping and ungrouping images
  • Picture toolbar
  • Clip Art Task Pane
  • Exploring the Clip Organizer
  • Searching for clip art
  • Inserting clip art
  • Exploring icons on the Picture toolbar
  • Using the Cropping icon
  • Resizing images
  • Grouping images
  • Fixing text in overflow frame

Section 7 - Layout and Design

  • Exploring the Clip Organizer
  • Starting a new clip art collection
  • Add clips to the clip art collection
  • Using clips from the collection
  • Resizing clip art
  • Using the Clip Art Task Pane
  • Add caption to clip art
  • Grouping frames
  • Balancing design and layout

Section 8 - Graphic Effects

  • Inserting empty picture frame
  • Rotating handle on clip art
  • Arrange menu
  • Reordering command
  • Changing fill effects
  • Adding border art
  • Modifying border art
  • Working with overflow text
  • Turn off boundaries and guides
  • Printing newsletter

Section 1 - Introduction

Section 2 - Working with Logos

  • Logo defined
  • Creating a logo
  • Using the Design gallery
  • Add logo to Collection
  • Adding a tagline to logo
  • Opening the Properties dialog box
  • Pixels defined
  • Using the Preview Properties dialog box
  • Edit clip art keywords
  • Delete clip art keywords
  • Inserting keywords
  • Expanded Clipboard
  • Using the Picture toolbar

Section 3 - Creating a business card

  • Using the Design gallery for a business card
  • Personal Information Wizard
  • Editing personal information
  • Adding logo to business card
  • Print boundaries

Section 4 - Adding WordArt

  • WordArt defined
  • Using the WordArt gallery
  • Editing WordArt
  • Exploring the WordArt toolbar
  • Changing colors in WordArt
  • Creating and matching custom colors
  • RGB defined
  • Changing line colors
  • Reformatting WordArt

Section 5 - Finishing Touches

  • Formatting and coloring text
  • Using fill color
  • Balancing design
  • Adding and coloring Autoshapes
  • Changing transparency
  • Arrange menu
  • Align or distribute menu
  • Exploring business card options
  • Change business card orientation
  • Grouping and regrouping objects
  • Print Preview toolbar
  • Changing Copies per Sheet option
  • Using business card stock paper
  • Printing business card

Section 6 - Creating Stationery

  • Copying elements to the Clipboard
  • Creating new letterhead
  • Installing wizards
  • Using Personal Information dialog box
  • Creating custom color scheme
  • Making custom color scheme default
  • Copying and pasting elements from Clipboard
  • Open new publication
  • Creating envelopes
  • Update Personal Information screen

Section 7 - Using Mail Merge

  • Mail Merge defined
  • Avery Brand paper stock
  • Using the Mail Merge Wizard
  • Data sources defined
  • Creating address list
  • Customize address list
  • Using an existing mailing list for mail merge
  • Add and remove names from mailing list
  • Updating new address block
  • Find name and addresses on address list
  • Exclude new from merge
  • Sorting merge

Section 8 - Creating an Invitation

  • Change page options and design
  • Editing elements on publication
  • Exploring page set up options
  • Folding options of invitation
  • Editing invitation verse
  • Editing image on invitation
  • Ungrouping images

Section 1 - Introduction

Section 2 - Brochure Design Basics

  • Principles of design
  • Contrast
  • Repetition
  • Alignment
  • Proximity
  • Using Design gallery for brochure
  • Paper Direct templates
  • Installing special paper feature
  • Change folding options
  • Updating Personal Information set
  • Include mailing block on brochure
  • Adding order form
  • Saving brochures
  • Saving hard drive space for large brochures

Section 3 - Advanced Text Editing Techniques

  • Formatting paragraphs
  • Adjusting indents and spacing
  • Using the Measurement toolbar
  • Adjusting character spacing
  • Editing story in Word
  • Advantages of editing in Word
  • Replacing text with imported title
  • Linking text using AutoFlow
  • AutoWrap text
  • Selecting wrapping styles
  • Using the Measurement toolbar
  • Resetting order
  • Nudging objects
  • Inserting pull quotes

Section 4 - Advanced Graphic Editing Techniques (Part 1)

  • Formatting WordArt
  • Rotate WordArt and graphics
  • Mirror images vs. rotate and flip
  • Center Alignment
  • Using layout guides
  • Reordering layers
  • Using advanced fill effects
  • Textures
  • Pictures
  • Patterns

Section 5 - Advanced Graphic Editing Techniques (Part 2)

  • Re-tinting tabs
  • Special gradient tools
  • Changing shading styles
  • Custom cropping
  • Cropping handles
  • Text Wrapping
  • Adding editing points
  • Adding borders
  • Line tool to draw borders
  • Shadow style settings
  • Adding shadows
  • Duplicating borders and lines
  • Resizing lines
  • Adding WordArt
  • Format WordArt button
  • Layering text on text

Section 6 - Outside Printing

  • Spell-checking
  • Print preview
  • Move through the print preview
  • Setting multiple page project
  • Setting grayscale option
  • Grayscale defined
  • Print sample
  • When to go to an outside publisher
  • Number of copies
  • Quality
  • Cost
  • Time
  • Other services such as sorting and folding
  • Color Matching
  • RGB
  • Spot color
  • Pantone
  • CMYK
  • Pack and Go Wizard
  • Another computer
  • Commercial printing service
  • Saving to CD or disk
  • Pack my Publication options
  • Print out composite proof and summary
  • E-mail project
  • Using compression software

Section 7 - Publications of the Web

  • Other and better Web programs
  • Transform brochure into Web format
  • Convert publication to Web publication
  • Adding navigation bar
  • Rearranging converted web site
  • Changing background
  • Apply same background to all pages
  • Changing Web titles
  • Changing font
  • Hot Spot icon on toolbar
  • Insert hyperlink
  • Linking pages within web site
  • Submit and reset buttons on forms
  • Format Form Properties feature
  • Inserting e-mail contact
  • Preview through web browser
  • Re-titling navigation buttons
  • Saving as web page
  • Publishing to the Web
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