Get started designing your own professional publications

In this lesson, we are going to learn some techniques of Microsoft Publisher; This program is usually used to design any kind of document with text, newsletters, bussiness cards or web sites. For this, we are going to do this Microsoft Publisher course.

With Publisher we can start our work with a predeterminated design if we don't want to start from zero; when we choose the type of work we want, Publisher displays some thumbnails ofavailable designs.

In this program, every element works as a independent element; for example, you can do the same things on a image or on a block of text.

After few advices, we are going to make a practise with Publisher and a "Test Yourself" exam, with two questioms about Publisher like "Why Publishr allows to amateur users to make professional works?".

Next point is how to add and edit text to a work in Publisher; If we want to add a new text box, we have to click the Text Box Tool in the Objects toolbar, draw the area of the text on the page, and type our text. If we want to change our text position, of change its size, we can do it in any moment. Also, we can change the text box format by adding a border, changing the background, etc., by using the Text Box command on the Format menu. We can also change the text size, colour, alignment, etc.

In Microsoft Publisher we can add a "Continued notice" in a text box automatically when we are typing a text that is too long using the Create Text Box Link tool. This tool allows us to navigate throught the different pages of our work.

Then, we made another practise and more questions about Publisher, like "What are the main differences between Publisher and another word processing programs?".

If we want to add an image to our work, we have to use the Add Frame Image tool. Using this tool we can add a Clipart, a simply rectangle or an image that is in our hard disk. Also, we can resize, move or crop our image once it is placed on our work. Publisher haves a Picture toolbar with some options for resizing our image, adding a border to it, etc. Of course, we can also wrap our image with the text like other programs (for example, Microsoft Word) and choose different text wrapping options.

Finally, we made another practise and few questions with a "test yourself".