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1:58 |
What Can I Make With Publisher?
Microsoft Publisher allows you to print professional print and web documents. This clip shows you sample brochures, business cards, newsletters, postcards, flyers, catalogs, PDF and documents for the web. You’ll know right away if this software is what you are looking for.
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Creating New Publications
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2:10 |
Creating New Publications
Go backstage in this clip to see how to utilize blank page sizes or templates in creating a publication. You’ll see that with some templates, the color scheme can be changed so you can match a series of publications to a color. This adds a level of customization that stays consistent throughout your publications. Watch for this feature in this short clip
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Saving Your Publications
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2:04 |
Saving Your Publications
Before creating a publication, it’s important to understand how you’re going to distribute it. This in turn will affect the style of publication you save. This clip gives you a brief tour of a few different ways to save your publication. Learn about how to save for compatibility with older versions of Microsoft Publisher. Then take a quick peek at PDF save options including how to encrypt your file. After this you’ll look at how to save your publication as a web page. Then check out two popular image formats you can use to save your publication as.
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Editing Publications
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4:43 |
Editing Publications
Learn the basics of editing publications with the help of a template. Learn how to determine what objects are already on screen, how to edit these and move them around. See how to quickly insert custom text boxes and then stylize the text. When it’s all said and done, it’s your turn!
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Working With Graphics
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2:55 |
Working With Graphics
This quick clip first shows you how to insert pictures into your publication. Then the wrap options for text are demonstrated and explained. Also discover the importance of picture placeholders and see how they work in action. Keep in mind, high quality printing requires high resolution graphics –a minimum of 96 DPI for most print publications.
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Using the Scratch Area, Grouping and Layers
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4:20 |
Using the Scratch Area, Grouping and Layers
Right from the get-go see why it’s important to use the scratch area and then how to utilize it in developing publication concepts. As the publication starts to take shape, you probably will want to group sets of objects together. This clip demonstrates how to do just that. Finally a basic understanding of publication layers is presented. Simple concepts, such as moving objects forward and backward in relation to other objects are also illustrated.
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Using Page Setup to Adjust Margin Guides
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3:22 |
Using Page Setup to Adjust Margin Guides
From the Page Design Tab you will see how margin guides can be setup and assist you in publication development. In addition to reviewing the standard margin guide sizes, this clip also shows you how to create custom margin guides. After the changes are made, watch how to line up objects such as pictures right up against a margin guide. One important rule to remember is that we are just adjusting the margin guides –not the margins themselves.
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Developing Publications for the Web
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4:09 |
Developing Publications for the Web
Watch how hyperlinks are easily placed into Publisher documents. Then, how about a neat trick? See how Publisher automatically pulls website addresses from an open browser. Also see how to create a link for an email response complete with the address and subject line inserted. Then learn how to save this web developed publication into a file ready for the Internet.
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Understanding Design Checker
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2:28 |
Understanding Design Checker
Using the Design Checker helps you discover potential problems in the print or web setup of your publication. Get a better understanding of how this tool works in this clip. Don’t forget that for each item that a problem is found, there is typically more information on why there is problem. Select the Explain button on the item’s dropdown to get a help dialog with more info.
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Preparing Publications for Commercial Printing
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3:48 |
Preparing Publications for Commercial Printing
Find out how to setup your document for commercial printing. Publisher provides several options for this including setting up the color model and embedding fonts. After you’ve made all the adjustments, it’s off to the Pack and Go Wizard for final preparations. This clip will show you these features and more.
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