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MICROSOFT PUBLISHER COURSE NAME Advanced Topics Making a Publication Consistent Working with Building Blocks Working with Mail Merges COURSE OVERVIEW This final section discusses a few final tools

1 MICROSOFT PUBLISHER COURSE NAME Advanced Topics Making a Publication Consistent Working with Building Blocks Working with Mail Merges COURSE OVERVIEW This final section discusses a few final tools that advanced users should know about, including the Graphics Manager and Design Checker; Participants will then get an introduction to the world of commercial printing; Finally, participants will learn how to customize Publisher, including changing the interface colour scheme and using additional languages. This section walks participants through the concepts of master pages and two page masters; They will learn how to customize master pages, use headers and footers, and use layout guides; Next, participants will learn how to add, modify, and use styles to create consistent text formatting; Finally, the course will introduce typographical tools which allow extra flourishes to be added to the font. Building Blocks are pre-made elements that allow quick and easy construction of a publication; This section will walk participants through the creation of page parts, calendars, borders, accents, and advertisements; They will also learn how to format, customize, and save their own Building Block creations for future use. Mail merges are often misunderstood as a difficult concept ' this section will prove that this is not the case! Participants will learn the basics of a merge and learn how to use the Mail Merge Wizard; Next, they will learn how to perform a manual mail merge and perform a number of follow-up merge activities including printing and exporting the merge recipient list; Finally, this section will outline how to use the same mail merge fundamentals to create a catalogue of products or services via a catalogue merge. This section will give participants an introduction to the remaining tabs, including contextual tabs; Candlewood House Green Hill Village Office Park Cnr Nentabos & Botterklapper Street The Willows, Pretoria 0040 Hoheizen Office Park 109 Hoheizen Cresent Welgemoed Belville 7530 Pretoria: Cape Town: info@cpd-africa.com Postal Address P.O. Box 2937 The Reeds 0157 Members Dewald Vorster Jan Botha Stefan Jacobs (D.Phil) Young Carr (D.Phil.)

2 Advanced Tabs and Customization Creating Publications Doing More with Text Printing and Viewing Your Publication Starting Out The Publisher Interface Adding Pictures to Your Publication Managing Your Publications Using Formatting and Language Tools Participants will also learn how to customize the ribbon. In this section, participants will learn how to use templates, modify global template options (such as colour and font schemes), work with pages, use basic editing commands, use guides and alignment, work with Building Blocks, and apply advanced text effects (such as the Format Painter, styles, and columns); Participants will also receive a crash course in graphic design. Next, participants will learn about changing all aspects of a font, format text boxes, change paragraph, text, and typography options (such as ligature styles and drop caps), and add page elements such as page numbers, headers and footers, and backgrounds. This final section will teach participants about publication masters, viewing a publication in various ways, showing and hiding screen elements, applying finishing touches such as spell check, changing page setup, and printing or ing a publication. To begin, participants will learn the basics of Publisher: how to open and close it, how to use the interface, how to create a basic publication, how to save and open publications, and how to get help; We'll also look at the new Backstage View. Next, participants will closely examine the ribbon interface, including the Quick Access Toolbar and the main tabs. This final section will focus on working with images; We'll talk first about adding images to your publications (either your own pictures or Clip Art); We'll discuss ways to format and arrange your pictures, as well as making last minute changes to pictures within the publication itself. This first section will start with a look at Windows Explorer and how it works inside Publisher; We'll discuss working with Publisher files and business information and look at ways you can share your publications with others; In the last lesson, we'll spend some time working with Publisher templates. We'll start this lesson off with the Paragraph dialog box and how to use it; Next we'll focus on special text elements and show you what you can do to spice up your publications; Page 2

3 Working with Illustrations Working with Shapes Essentials - Advanced Mail Merge Tasks Essentials - Creating a Catalogue, Part One Essentials - Creating a Catalogue, Part Two Essentials - Inserting Text and Links Essentials - Linking Text Boxes This section will also have lessons on creating custom schemes to help you create publications which are truly your own; We'll also cover linking text boxes, Publisher's spelling tools, AutoCorrect, and research tools. We'll start this section by exploring how to add tables to your publications and how to format them to get them just right; Then, we'll talk about working with WordArt. This section focuses entirely on shapes in Publisher; First, we'll look at adding the shapes to your publications and show you how to manipulate them; Next, we will look next at formatting and grouping shapes. The look at Mail Merge tasks continues here at an advanced level; Students will be shown ways to use the Mailings tab, create personalized hyperlinks, print the recipient list, save a shortcut to the recipient list, and how to export the recipient list. With 2013 you can create a professional-quality catalogue; This module provides your students with the skills they need to insert catalogue pages choose a data source, create a data source from scratch, and how to choose a layout. There are a lot of tools in Publisher 2013 to create a catalogue so we broke the skills down into two sections; In this second module for catalos, your students get a look at how to add text fields and picture fields, how to preview a catalogue, and how to complete the merge. The ability to insert text and links in Publisher 2013 can be very helpful to the user; This module gives students a look at how to insert symbols, files, and objects, how to insert date and time, as well as how to create hyperlinks and bookmarks. When there's too much text for one text book a simple solution is close at hand in the form of linked text boxes; Students will find out in this module how to link text boxes, how to navigate through linked boxes and how to break text box links. The Graphics Manager is used to manage images, including embedded or linked images; In this module, your students will benefit by learning how to open the Graphics Manager, how to set display and sort options, how to embed Page 3

4 Essentials - Using the Graphics Manager Essentials - Using the Mail Merge Wizard Essentials - Using Typography Tools with Images with Multiple Objects with Styles with Templates Customizing the Interface images, how to save linked images, how to replace images, and how to view image properties. Mail merge is used to create large numbers of documents that are almost identical but have unique information contained in them; The Mail Merge Wizard allows you to merge information in a few simple steps; Here, students will learn to start the Mail Merge Wizard, select recipients, preview results, create the publication, and complete an e- mail merge. Teach your students how to refine their projects with these important typography tools; This module covers: how to insert drop caps, how to choose a number or ligature style, how to choose a stylistic set, how to manage swashes, and how to choose stylistic alternates. Images are an important part of most published documents; In this module, students will discuss how to use an image as a background, how to crop and image to a shape, how to crop an image to fit or fill, how to correct images, and how to recolor images. In Publisher 2013, multiple objects can be selected in a number of ways and then grouped and ungrouped, aligned and arranged; This module gives your students the skills they need to perform these tasks. Styles control several attributes of text and can save a lot of time for users; Instead of taking several steps to format text the way you want it, just apply a style; It's as simple as that and your students will learn about how to create a new style, how to modify, delete, and import styles. Templates save a huge amount of time in the production of publications that use similar layouts; This final module provides the skills to create, save, edit, and use a template. In the final module of this course, students will learn how to collapse and expand the ribbon, customize the Quick Access toolbar, hide and show ribbon tabs, create custom ribbon tabs, and reset interface changes. Page 4

5 Formatting Text Illustrating Your Publication Inserting Building Blocks Printing and Sharing Your Publication The Basics The Finishing Touches Using Business Information Using Master Pages The fourth module of this course takes a closer look at text; Students will learn how to change font face, size, and colour, as well as how to apply text effects and change character spacing; The module also covers working with the Font dialog, how to use the Format Painter, and how to clear formatting from text. What better way to add some punch to your publication than by adding illustrations? This module shows students how to insert images from a local source or from online; It also gives students instructions on how to insert a picture placeholder, shapes, WordArt, and tables. This handy module shows students how to insert page parts, calendars, borders and accents, and advertisements into a publication; The basics of modifying these objects are covered as well. This module looks at how to save a publication as PDF or XPS and for photo or commercial printing; Information on how to print and publications is also included. In the first module, students will learn the basics of signing in with a Microsoft account, how to create and save a new publication, and the benefits of the scratch area. In this module, students will learn how to use the spell checker, insert page numbers, add footers and headers, and run the Design Checker. Business information can be quickly and easily copied to a publication by using Publisher's business information sets; This module looks at how to set up business information, manage business information sets, and insert business information fields; Students will also learn how to add building blocks to the Business Information Gallery. Master pages are like templates in a publication; This module describes master pages and shows how to create and edit them; Students are also shown how to send objects to the master page, apply a master page, and remove a master page. Page 5

6 Working with Objects Working with Pages Your First Publication Objects are a big part of any publication, so this module covers how to select, resize, move, rotate, and delete an object; Contextual tabs and the mini toolbar are also covered. This module covers how to insert pages, navigate through pages, delete pages, and rename pages; The module also looks at creating a page background and how to change the colour and font schemes for a publication. This module gives students ways to deal with text in Publisher; Topics include how to create a text box and how to type, delete, and select text; The module also touches on handy time-saving features such as Undo and Redo; cut, copy, and paste; and drag and drop. Page 6

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