DURATION
2 days
Target Audience
This course was designed for persons with a basic understanding of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Word who need to learn how to use Microsoft® Publisher 2003 to create, layout, and edit publications.
Prerequisites
This course assumes that you are familiar with using personal computers and word processing. You should be comfortable in the Windows environment and be able to use Windows to manage information on your computer.
Specifically, you should be able to: launch and close programs, navigate to information stored on the computer; manage files and folders; and select text. One of the following courses are recommended, or you should have equivalent knowledge of:
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Course Description
Microsoft® Publisher 2003, which is an easy to use, flexible program for creating newsletters, brochures, business cards, postcards, flyers, among others for print, email, and the Web. In this course, you will look at how to create a publication from scratch or use one of the hundreds of business and personal designs available in Publisher
Course Contents
Activating and starting Publisher
About web mode and print mode
Introducing Publisher wizards
Getting to know the Publisher screen
Selecting, copying, moving and pasting
Moving around a publication
Choosing where to print
Opening a publication
Using publication design sets
Working with publisher frames
Flowing text into text boxes
Saving and closing Publisher
Some Publisher extras
Using format painter
Resizing objects
Rotating objects
Centering and aligning objects
Moving objects around
Grouping and ungrouping objects
Layering objects
Applying and changing borders
Making objects opaque or transparent
Working with shadows
Drawing simple shapes
Working with lines and arrows
Drawing a 3D shape
Changing the fill color or pattern
Using object linking and embedding
Entering text into Publisher
Changing the basic look of text
Deleting text
Finding and replacing text
Changing character spacing
Changing text frame margins
Creating a bulleted or numbered list
Working with tab stops
Indenting text
Working with text styles
Using personal information sets
Getting creative with WordArt
Creating a fancy first letter
About Publisher’s non-printing marks
Placing a picture on the page
How to resize, crop or delete a picture
Changing the colors in picture
Using the Clip Art task pane
Organizing your clip art in Publisher
Introducing mail and catalog merge
What’s a data source and data field
Setting up your data source
Changing a data source
Creating an address list
Filtering an address list
Sorting an address list
Placing mail merge fields onto a page
Changing the look of merged text
Inserting pictures as merge fields
Creating a mail merge
Creating a catalog merge
Printing a mail or catalog merge
Creating a table
Selecting and moving around a table
Changing row and column size
Adding and deleting rows and columns
Moving and copying cell data
Changing how cell data looks
Changing the color of objects
Merging and unmerging cells
Adding an object to a table
Applying cell and table borders
Brochure: an example wizard
Working with design gallery
Creating a logo
Using the BorderArt Gallery
Wrapping text around an object
Changing the text wrap shape
Creating master pages
Viewing a two-page spread
Changing page size and margins
Using layout and ruler guides
Creating headers and footers
Adding, moving and deleting a page
Exploring color schemes
How to check text spacing
Correcting errors while you type
Checking spelling
Previewing before printing Changing the look of merged text
Setting up and using a desktop printer
Working with special paper
Printing labels and envelopes
Troubleshooting print problems
Website basics
Planning your website
Using a wizard to create your website
Creating web pages your way
Use existing web pages to create a site
Web fonts and Publisher font schemes
Adding, copying, and deleting pages
Feeding search engines and directories
Establishing your web page background
Setting web page width
Adding a separate HTML code block
Working with hyperlinks
Introduction to web graphic
Including animated graphics
Creating thumbnail graphics
Using web page navigation bars
Adding a sound clip to a web page
Saving your site in Publisher format
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.