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Double-click the Opening publication to open it. At the right end of the Format Publication task pane title bar, click the Close button Close to close the task pane. Move the mouse pointer over the elements of the cover page of the publication, pausing on each until a ScreenTip identifying the element type appears. ScreenTip In a publication that has many elements, you can use these ScreenTips to identify the part you want to work with. On the page sorter at the bottom of the window, click the page 2 button.

Publisher displays pages 2 and 3 of the publication. On the View menu, click Two-Page Spread to turn off the command and display only the selected page. Tip When people read a printed publication, they see a spread consisting of facing left and right pages. While you work on a publication that has more than two pages, you might want to view it in Two-Page Spread view to ensure that elements on the left and right pages are balanced.

On the page sorter, click the page 5 button to display the penultimate page of the publication. However, those key combinations will take you to the beginning or end of the text in the active frame. Click the image in the center of the page, click the Zoom arrow on the Standard Zoom toolbar, and then click Selected Objects. Opening and Viewing Publications 19 Troubleshooting Selected Objects appears in the Zoom list only when an object is selected. Click the Zoom arrow, and then click Whole Page.

Publisher restores the view to the original Zoom percentage. Multiple Open Publications Publisher displays each publication you open in its own program window. If you want to view all the open publications at the same time, you can click either Arrange All or Cascade on the Window menu: The Arrange All command divides your screen space vertically and horizontally as necessary to display a tiled view of all the publication windows.

This view is ideal for comparing two publications or for moving or copying elements from one publication to another. The Cascade command layers the publication windows so that all of their title bars are visible but you can see only the publication at the top of the stack. You can bring a different publication to the top of the stack by clicking its title bar. Instead of having to enter this information for each new publication, you enter it only once, in an information set.

Then whenever a new publication includes an item from the information set, Publisher automatically pulls it from the stored record and plugs it in. Similarly, to update personal or company information throughout the publication, you need only update it once, in the information set.

In this exercise, you will create two information sets and apply them to a publication. USE the Logo publication. Publisher creates a business card containing placeholders for standard information. On the Edit menu, click Business Information.

Storing Personal and Company Information 21 Troubleshooting This dialog box appears only if you have not previously created an information set. If you already have an existing information set, the Business Information dialog box appears. Fill in the information in all the boxes other than the Logo box. Below the Logo box, click Change. The Insert Picture dialog box opens. You navigate in this dialog box the same way you do in the Save As or Open dialog box.

The selected logo appears in the Logo preview area. In the Business Information set name box at the bottom of the dialog box, replace Custom 1 with a name that represents the information you just entered, and then click Save. For example, you might enter Company or Personal. In the Business Information dialog box, review the information you just entered, and then click Update Publication.

At the right end of the Format Publication task pane title bar, click the arrow, and then in the task pane list, click Business Information. At the bottom of the task pane, click Change Business Information to display the Business Information dialog box.

Tip From the Business Information dialog box, you can create, edit, or delete information sets. Click New, and then in the Create New Business Information Set dialog box, enter a different set of information, again deleting any elements that are not relevant.

For example, if you previously entered your company information, you might want to enter personal information this time. In the Business Information set name box, type an appropriate name, and then click Save. Close the dialog box without updating the business card publication, and then close the Business Information task pane. In the Business Information dialog box, click the arrow to the right of the box containing the name of the information set applied to the publication, click the name of the second set you created, and then click Update Publication.

CLOSE the publication without saving your changes. Tip After you insert an item into a publication from the information set, you can add to it or delete parts of it without affecting the way it is stored in the information set. Similarly, if an item such as a tagline or motto is not included in the information set, you can replace the corresponding placeholder in a publication with text without affecting the saved information set.

To use a different printer or change the print settings, click Print on the File menu to open the Print dialog box. You can then specify which printer to use, what to print, and how many copies, and you can make other changes to the print settings. Previewing a Publication Before you print a publication, you will almost always want to check how it will look on paper by previewing it.

Previewing is essential for multi-page publications but is helpful even for one-page publications. In this view, Publisher shows exactly how each page of the publication will look when printed and displays a Print Preview toolbar to provide tools for checking each page. Tip Tools are unavailable on this toolbar if they are not relevant to your printer. To output composite CMYK or separations, your printer and printer driver must both be set to support PostScript language level 2 or later.

You can also change the resolution and halftone screen settings. On the Graphics And Fonts tab, you can allow or prevent font substitution, set the resolution or turn off the printing of pictures, and set downsampling rates for pictures and line art.

On the Printer Setup Wizard tab, you can set up the paper orientation for manually feeding pages that you want to print on both sides, as well as the orientation for feeding envelopes. When you want to print only a few copies of a publication, using your own printer is quick and easy.

If you need many copies, you will often save time and money by going to a copy shop or commercial printer. USE the Printing publication. OPEN the Printing publication. On the Standard toolbar, click the Print Preview button.

On the Print Preview toolbar, click the Multiple Pages button, and then in the grid, click the second thumbnail in the top row. Printing Publications 3. On the Print Preview toolbar, click the Page Down button.

Page Down The next two pages appear. Move the pointer over page 3, and when the pointer changes to a magnifying glass, click the mouse button. Without moving the pointer, click again. Publisher redisplays the two pages side by side. On the Page Preview toolbar, click the Page Up button to return to page 1.

Then Page Up click Close. On the page sorter at the bottom of the window, click page 2. Then on the File menu, click Print. Important Because publications are usually carefully laid out before they are printed, it is unlikely that you will want to change settings such as the paper size and orientation in the Print dialog box.

Instead you should change them in the Format Publication task pane or in the Page Setup dialog box so that you can see the effects on your publication before you print it. If you have more than one printer available and you want to switch printers, click the Printer name arrow, and in the list, click the printer you want.

Under Page Range, click the Current Page option. Because you selected page 2 before displaying the Print dialog box, the Preview box now displays page 2 as it will look when printed. Under Copies, change the Number of copies setting to 2, and then click OK.

Publisher prints two copies of the second page of the publication on the designated printer. Key Points 27 Tip When you print multiple copies of the entire publication, you can choose to have Publisher collate the copies print one entire set of pages before printing the next or print the publication on both sides of the paper. CLOSE the Printing document without saving your changes, and if you are not continuing directly on to the next chapter, quit Publisher.

You can specify fonts, colors, and layout options before creating the publication. You can store sets of personal and company information for Publisher to automatically enter in all the appropriate places in your publications. Chapter at a Glance Work with text boxes, page 30 Work with shapes, page 52 Work with pre-designed visual elements, page 58 2 Creating Visual Interest In this chapter, you will learn to: Work with text boxes.

Work with WordArt. Work with graphics. Work with shapes. Work with pre-designed visual elements. Knowing basic techniques for inserting and manipulating visual elements is the key to quickly assembling impressive publications.

The publications you create are most effective when you achieve the balance of text and graphics that best conveys your message. Some publications convey information through text and include visual elements only to catch the reader’s eye or to reinforce or illustrate a point.

At the other end of the scale, some publications include almost no text and instead rely on visual elements to carry the message. Then you will use WordArt to create fancy, stylized text for those occasions when regular formatting doesn’t quite meet your needs. Next, you will insert clip art graphics and pictures, add borders, and change the size, color, and position of the images.

You will draw, connect, and group shapes. Finally, you will insert ready-made design elements from the Design Gallery. The instructions in the exercises assume that you are working in a blank publication so that you can focus on the techniques you are learning. However, you can easily adapt the instructions to any type of publication.

When you create a publication by using Publisher, however, you enter each section of text in a text box. You can create text boxes or manipulate the text boxes that are part of a Publisher template. In Publisher, the text in a text box is called a story. A story is any discrete block of text that occupies a single text box or a set of linked text boxes. It can be a single paragraph or multiple paragraphs.

Tip To copy a text box, hold down the Ctrl key while you drag it. You can drag the handles of the frame to change the size or shape of the box. In this dialog box, you can also specify the following: The background color of the text box, whether it has a border, and the color of the border. When a text box is active, a green rotating handle is attached to its upper-middle handle.

You can drag this handle to change the angle of the text box and the text within it. You can rotate the entire box by clicking Rotate Or Flip on the Arrange menu and then selecting one of the options. You can vary the look of text by changing the character formatting: All text is displayed in a particular font consisting of alphabetic characters, numbers, and symbols that share a common design.

Almost every font comes in a range of font sizes, which are measured in points from the top of letters that have parts that stick up ascenders , such as h, to the bottom of letters that have parts that drop down descenders , such as p. Almost every font comes in a range of font styles. The most common are regular or plain , italic, bold, and bold italic. Fonts can be enhanced by applying font effects, such as underlining, small capital letters small caps , or shadows.

A palette of harmonious font colors is available, and you can also specify custom colors. You can alter the character spacing by pushing characters apart or squeezing them together. In this exercise, you will create a blank publication, add a text box, and then insert the contents of an existing Word document.

Tip If a publication is open, you can create a new blank publication by clicking the New button on the Standard toolbar. Publisher creates a blank publication of the selected size.

Blue margin guides designate the margins of the publication, which by default are set to 1 inch on all sides. To the left is the Format Publication task pane, and docked on the left side of the window is the Objects toolbar. Working with Text Boxes 33 Tip Throughout this chapter, we work with letter-size publications, but you can choose any size you want. You might want to try a different size for each exercise to see some of the available options.

Close the Format Publication task pane. Move the cross-hair pointer over the blank page, and when the pointer is slightly to the right of the left margin guide and slightly below the top margin guide, hold down the mouse button, and drag to the right and down, without releasing the mouse button.

Notice as you drag that Publisher displays the exact coordinates of the upper-left corner the anchor point of the text box and its exact dimensions on the status bar. The anchor point coordinates are expressed in relation to the upper-left corner of the page. Text box anchor point Text box dimensions 6. Release the mouse button when the text box dimensions are 5. A blinking insertion point in the text box shows where any text you type will appear. Without clicking anything else, on the Insert menu, click Text File.

The Insert Text dialog box opens, displaying the contents of your Documents folder. Publisher inserts the contents of the document into the text box. Zoom Point to the frame around the text box, and when the pointer changes to a fourheaded arrow, drag the frame down and to the right, releasing the mouse button when the text box coordinates are 2. Tip Publisher can display measurements in inches, centimeters, picas, points, or pixels. To change the unit of measure, click Options on the Tools menu, and then on the General tab of the Options dialog box, select the unit type you want in the Measurement Units list.

Double-click the text box frame to open the Format Text Box dialog box. Working with Text Boxes 35 On the Colors and Lines tab, under Fill, click the Color arrow, and in the default color palette, click the orange square Accent 3. On the Edit menu, click Select All to select all the text in the text box. On the Formatting toolbar, click the Font arrow, and then in the list, click Verdana.

If the font is too big, you can click the Decrease Font Size button. On the Formatting toolbar, click the Font Color arrow, and in the default color Font Color palette, click the white square Accent 5. Then click anywhere in the text box to release the selection. Tip To apply the color currently shown on the Font Color button, simply click the button not its arrow.

Drag the bottom handle of the text box frame upward, releasing the mouse button when the dimensions shown on the status bar are 5. On the Standard toolbar, click the Undo button, and then try dragging the handle again. Select the heading What Is Fourth Coffee? With the heading still selected, on the Format menu, click Font to open the Font dialog box. Working with Text Boxes 37 The Sample box shows the formatting applied to the selection.

As you make changes to the settings in the dialog box, the sample changes to show how the selection will look if you click Apply or OK. Clicking Apply implements the current settings without closing the dialog box. Click the Font style arrow, and in the list, click Bold. Then under Effects, select the Small caps check box, and click OK. You can click buttons on the formatting toolbar to change the font style of text, but to apply font effects, you have to use the Font dialog box.

If you want to apply several attributes to the same text, it is often quicker to open the dialog box and apply them all from there. Under Tracking, click the arrow of the left box, and in the list, click Very Loose.

Click outside the text box to release the selection and see the results. With WordArt, you can visually enhance text in ways that go far beyond changing a font or font effect, simply by choosing a style from a set of small thumbnail images arranged in a gallery. Tip For the best results, use WordArt to emphasize short phrases, such as Customer Service, or a single word, such as Welcome.

Overusing WordArt can clutter your publication and draw attention away from your message. You add stylized text to a publication by clicking the WordArt button on the Objects toolbar.

You then select a style from the WordArt gallery, enter your text, and apply any additional formatting. Publisher inserts the text in your publication as a WordArt object that you can size and move like any other object. You can also change the shape of the object to stretch and form the letters of the text in various ways.

In this exercise, you will add a WordArt object to a publication and then modify the appearance of the text. On the Objects toolbar, click the Insert WordArt button. With the placeholder text selected, type Fourth Coffee, and then click OK. The formatted text appears as an object in the center of the page, and Publisher displays the WordArt toolbar.

Tip You can display the name of each button on the WordArt toolbar by pointing to it. The button names will give you some idea of the formatting you can apply to a WordArt object to get the effect you want. If necessary, move the toolbar out of the way. Then move and resize the WordArt object until it spans the top of the page and is about 2 inches high.

Tip Notice that the pointer position is always shown on the horizontal and vertical rulers. Troubleshooting If you click outside the WordArt object, it is no longer active, and the WordArt toolbar disappears.

Click the WordArt object once to reactivate it and display the toolbar. This dialog box resembles the Format Text Box dialog box shown earlier in this chapter. The Fill Effects dialog box opens. With Two colors selected under Colors on the Gradient tab, click the Color 1 arrow, and in the default palette, click the Purple box. Then in the Color 2 list, click the Gray box. Under Shading styles, click Horizontal, and under Variants, click the lower-left option.

Then click OK twice. Drag the yellow diamond handle to the left of the frame up until the dotted outline of the letters is aligned with about the half-inch mark on the vertical ruler. Tip The handle moves only after you release the mouse button, not while you drag it. The letters at the sides of the WordArt object stretch so that the triangle effect is less exaggerated.

Click away from the object to release the selection and see the results. Working with Graphics Publisher provides access to hundreds of professionally designed pieces of clip art—license-free graphics that often take the form of cartoons, sketches, or symbolic images, but can also include photographs, audio and video clips, and more sophisticated artwork. In a publication, you can use clip art to illustrate a point you are making or as eye-pleasing accompaniments to text.

To search for a clip art image, you display the Clip Art task pane and enter a keyword. You can add illustrations created and saved in other programs or scanned photographs and illustrations to your publications. We refer to these types of graphics as pictures.

Like clip art, pictures can be used to make your publications more attractive and visually interesting. However, pictures can also convey information in a way that words cannot. Here are some of the more common formats: BMP bitmap.

Stores graphics as a series of dots, or pixels. Common for images that appear on Web pages because they can be compressed with no loss of information and groups of them can be animated. GIFs work well for line drawings, pictures with blocks of solid color, and pictures with sharp boundaries between colors. GIFs store at most 8 bits per pixel, so they are limited to colors. A compressed format that works well for complex graphics such as scanned photographs.

Some information is lost in the compression process, but often the loss is imperceptible to the human eye. Color JPEG images store 24 bits per pixel, so they are capable of displaying more than 16 million colors.

Grayscale JPEG images store 8 bits per pixel. Has the advantages of the GIF format but can store colors with 8, 24, or 48 bits per pixel and grayscales with 1, 2, 4, 8, or 16 bits per pixel.

WMF Windows Metafile. A bit vector graphic format commonly used in the s but largely eclipsed by more modern formats suited to both print and Web applications. With this useful tool, you can arrange clip art images, pictures, audio clips, and video clips that are stored in different locations.

To add an image to the Clip Organizer: 1. At the bottom of the Clip Art task pane, click the Organize clips link. The Favorites – Microsoft Clip Organizer window opens. To place images in a collection other than the currently selected one, click the Add To button, and then in the Import To Collection dialog box, select or create the collection you want. To add keywords to an image: 1. In the Favorites — Microsoft Clip Organizer window, point to the image, click the arrow that appears, and then click Edit Keywords.

The Keywords dialog box opens. Your keywords are added to the Keywords For Current Clip list, which already contains any previously associated keywords. Click OK K to close the Keywords dialog box. Working with Graphics 45 Positioning and Sizing a Graphic After you insert a graphic into a publication, you can move and size it just as you can any other object. You can also do the following: Rotate the graphic to any angle. The graphic itself is not altered—parts of it are simply not shown.

Depending on the resolution setting, you might lose some visual quality when you compress a picture. You choose the resolution you want for the pictures based on where or how the presentation will be viewed—for example, on the Web or printed. Modifying the Appearance of a Graphic When a graphic object is selected, Publisher displays the Picture toolbar. You can use the buttons on this toolbar to modify the appearance of the selected graphic in various ways, including the following: Change the color.

Change to shades of gray called grayscale , black and white, or muted shades of its original colors called washout. Adjust the contrast. Adjust the brightness. Change the color and style of the border.

Make parts of the graphic transparent. In this exercise, you will insert and modify a clip art image, and then insert and crop a picture. OPEN a blank publication. Picture Frame Tip If you are designing the layout of a publication and know you will want to insert some sort of graphic later, you can click Empty Picture Frame to insert a graphic placeholder. The Clip Art task pane opens. In the Search for box at the top of the task pane, type birthday. Click the Search in arrow, and select the Everywhere check box.

Then click Go. Thumbnails of clip art, photographs, movies, and sounds with the keyword birthday appear in the task pane. If you do not have an active Internet connection, you might not see all the clip art images shown here. In that case, pick any clip art image to follow the steps in this exercise. Scroll the thumbnail list box, and point to any stylized drawing of a cake with candles.

Toward the bottom of the list box, click one of the one-color cake silhouettes. Publisher inserts the image into the publication and displays the Picture toolbar. With the clip art image still selected, on the Picture toolbar, click the Format Format Picture Picture button. The Format Picture dialog box opens. If you selected a different image, you might want to choose different formatting options. Under Image control on the Picture tab, click the Recolor button.

Troubleshooting If you chose a more-complex graphic than the one shown in the example, you might not be able to recolor it. In the Recolor Picture dialog box, click the Color arrow, and in the default color palette, click the Purple box. Then under Line, click the Color arrow, and click the Purple box. Then click the Width box. You can change the proportions of the image by clearing the Lock Aspect Ratio check box. The small graphic jumps to the upper-left corner of the page, displaying its new purple and gray color scheme.

If necessary, move the toolbar to see the image. Click a blank area of the page to release the selection, and then close the Clip Art task pane. Move the pointer over the page below the clip art image, and drag to create a frame about 4 inches square. Use the rulers or the size indicator on the status bar to guide you. When you release the mouse button, Publisher displays the Insert Picture dialog box.

Publisher inserts the picture in the frame you drew on the page and displays the Picture toolbar. If necessary, move the Picture toolbar out of the way. With the picture still selected, on the Picture toolbar, click the Crop button. Crop Cropping handles appear in the corners and on the sides of the picture.

Cropping handles Working with Graphics 51 Then drag the left and right cropping handles to tightly focus the picture on the plate and the little cake. Click the Crop button to hide the cropping handles.

Then click a blank area of the page to see the results. Click the picture, and then on the Picture toolbar, click the Compress Pictures Compress Pictures button. The Compress Pictures dialog box opens. Unless you select the Apply To Selected Pictures Only check box, Publisher will compress all the pictures in the publication, not only the selected picture. Under Compression options, leave all the check boxes selected.

Under Target Output, click Web. Notice that the estimated size after compression using the new settings is much smaller. The resolution for displaying graphics on the Web is much lower than the resolution for printing. Click Compress. Then click Yes to apply picture optimization. Publisher compresses the pictures and deletes the cropped parts of the picture.

Working with Shapes Publisher provides tools for creating several types of shapes, including lines, arrows, ovals, rectangles, stars, banners, and many more. With a little imagination, you will discover countless ways to create drawings by combining shapes.

After you draw the shape, it is surrounded by a set of handles, indicating that it is selected. You can select a shape at any time by simply clicking it. Tip To draw a circle or square, click the Oval or Rectangle shape, and hold down the Shift key while you drag. You can easily add text to a shape. Simply select the shape by clicking it, and start typing.

You can then format the text by clicking buttons on the Formatting toolbar or by making selections in the Font dialog box.

Working with Shapes 53 Manipulating a Shape To move a shape from one location to another on the same page, you simply point to the shape, and when the pointer becomes a four-headed arrow, drag the shape to its new location, using the coordinates shown on the status bar to position it precisely.

You can create a copy of a selected shape by dragging it while holding down the Ctrl key. You can also reposition a shape by changing settings on the Layout tab of the Format AutoShape dialog box. Tip If you hold down the Shift key while moving a shape, you can move it only horizontally or vertically in a straight line.

The handles around a selected shape serve the same sizing and rotating purposes as those around any other object. You can use the dimensions shown on the status bar to adjust the size precisely, or you can set the size of the shape on the Size tab of the Format AutoShape dialog box. You can rotate it by using the Rotate Or Flip command on the Arrange menu. Tip Having made changes to one shape, you can easily apply the same attributes to another shape by clicking the shape that has the desired attributes, clicking the Format Painter button on the Standard toolbar, and then clicking the shape to which you want to copy the attributes.

If you want to apply the attributes of a shape to all future shapes in the same publication for example, if you want all shapes to be red , double-click the shape, and on the Colors And Lines tab of the Format AutoShape dialog box, select the Apply Settings To New AutoShapes check box.

Connecting and Grouping Shapes To show a relationship between two shapes, you can connect them with a line by joining special handles called connection points. Moving a connected shape also moves the line, maintaining the relationship between the connected shapes.

You can select an individual shape within the group and change its attributes—for example, its color or the weight of its border. You can ungroup the grouped shapes at any time and regroup them after making changes. In this exercise, you will draw several shapes of the same color. Then you will connect two shapes and format the connection line. Finally, you will group and ungroup the shapes.

The triangle is now upside down. Tip If you click a shape button on the Objects toolbar and then change your mind about drawing the shape, you can release the shape by pressing the Esc key.

Working with Shapes 55 6. On the Objects toolbar, click the Oval button, and drag an oval about 1. Point to the triangle, and when blue handles appear, drag a line from the upperright handle of the triangle to the bottom handle of the oval. Publisher joins the two shapes with a curved connecting line. Red handles appear at each end of the line, indicating that the shapes are connected. A yellow diamondshaped handle in the center of the line provides a means to adjust the curve of the line.

Troubleshooting The yellow handle appears only if the line is long enough to support it. If you do not see the yellow handle, drag the oval slightly up or to the right to lengthen the connector line. Double-click the line not its handle , and under Line on the Colors and Lines tab of the Format AutoShape dialog box, change the Color to Orange and the Weight to 6 pt.

Click the oval, and move it to the left, close to the circle. Publisher adjusts the length and curve of the connecting line. Click the line, and drag the yellow diamond handle down to create a smooth curve. Select the four shapes by holding down the G key as you click each one in turn. Notice that each shape has its own set of handles. On the Arrange menu, click Group. Publisher groups the shapes together with only one set of handles around the edge of the entire group.

When the group is selected, the Ungroup Objects button appears below it so that you can ungroup the shapes at any time. Point to any shape in the group, and when the pointer changes to a four-headed arrow, drag the grouped object to the upper-left corner of the page until the coordinates are 1.

The entire group moves. Click away from the individual shape to release the selection, and then click the grouped shape to select it. Point to the lower-right handle and drag up and to the left until the dimensions of the grouped object are 1. Working with Shapes 57 Click a blank area of the page to see the results. Click the grouped shape to select it, and then click the Ungroup Objects button.

Ungroup Objects Publisher ungroups the object into individual shapes, which are all selected, and displays the Group Objects button. You can now adjust the size and position of individual shapes. Click the Group Objects button. Group Objects Publisher regroups the shapes.

Now suppose you want to add a shape to the group. Publisher adds the cup shape to the group. One of the ways it provides assistance is by offering hundreds of ready-made visual elements that you can insert in a publication with a couple of clicks. To simplify the use of these visual elements, Publisher organizes them in categories in the Design Gallery. Many of the elements have a common design and color scheme to give your publications a consistent look. When you are more familiar with color schemes and themes, you will be able to customize the colors of these elements, but for now, we will show you how to use the default Design Gallery elements to add professional touches to your publications.

If you want to reuse a customized Design Gallery element, or any other object, you can copy and paste it between publications or you can add it to the Content Library. On the Objects toolbar, click the Design Gallery Object button. The left pane displays a list of categories. Clicking a category in the left pane displays the available Design Gallery objects in the right pane.

Notice that the objects available in the Accent Box category are all depicted in the same color scheme. Working with Pre-Designed Visual Elements 59 2. In the left pane, click Borders. Then in the right pane, double-click Stacked Corners. Publisher inserts an asymmetrical border around the perimeter of the page.

With the border selected, press the O key and the N key repeatedly until the blue margin guides are approximately centered within the border. The border consists of sets of overlapping rectangles. You can move the entire border because all of its components are grouped to form one object that can be treated as a single unit.

Display the Design Gallery again, click Dots in the left pane, and then double-click Diamond in the right pane. With the row of dots selected, point to one of the corner handles on the left, and drag until the row of diamonds extends to the blue margin guide on the left. Then repeat this step to extend the row to the blue margin guide on the right. Display the Design Gallery, and in the left pane, click Coupons.

The Design Gallery displays the three available coupon designs, along with options for customizing them. In the middle pane, click Top Oval.

In the Options pane, under Border, click Basic dots. Drag the coupon to the area below the row of diamonds. CLOSE the publication without saving your changes, and if you are not continuing directly on to the next chapter, quit Publisher. Key Points Creating and manipulating visual elements is a basic Publisher skill that you will use when working in most publications. You can reposition most elements by dragging them, and you can resize elements by dragging their sizing handles.

You can group elements together to manipulate them as a single unit. Before you spend time creating graphics, check for publicly available clip art and ready-made Design Gallery elements. Chapter at a Glance Create folded cards, page 64 Create postcards, page 74 Create calendars, page 84 3 Creating Colorful Cards and Calendars In this chapter, you will learn to: Create folded cards.

Create postcards. Create calendars. Package publications for printing. Cards and calendars can be among the easiest publications to produce. However, if you intend to distribute a lot of them, you might need to do some advance planning. In this chapter, we discuss issues such as layout, color, paper, printing, and mailing, while showing you how to produce a folded card, a postcard, and three types of calendars.

You also learn how to save time when creating a multi-page publication by applying formatting to the underlying master page. You can print cards that you create in Publisher on both sides of the paper, or you can simulate this effect by printing the content on one side of the paper and then folding it in four. Choosing a Design or Layout When you choose certain publication types, including Greeting Cards or Invitation Cards, in the Getting Started window, the thumbnails for two kinds of templates appear in the center pane: Design templates.

Templates such as the Thank You type of greeting card or the Party type of invitation card are based on one of the classic Publisher designs, such as Accent Box, Capsules, or Quadrant. When you click one of these templates, the Page Size and Layout settings under Options in the right pane are unavailable, so you cannot change the design.

Layout templates. Templates such as the Birth Announcement type of greeting card or the Birthday Party type of invitation card are based on a layout, such as Frames, Portal, or Radius. When you click one of these templates, the Page Size and Layout settings under Options in the right pane are available, so you can change them. The Page Size option determines whether your publication will occupy a quarter page or a half page, with the crease on the top or on the side.

The Layout option determines which page layout will be applied to the card. You can change the page size and customize the layout after you have created the card, but with so many options to choose from, you can save time by choosing the template that is closest to the effect you want.

In this way, you can get a good idea of the range of possibilities. Tip Each time you open a new instance of the Getting Started window, it displays the template thumbnails with the default settings. Creating Folded Cards 65 Every publication, even a blank one, has a color scheme, a font scheme, and a set of information associated with it. You can change these options after you create a publication, but you can save time by specifying all three at the time of creation.

Changing the Color Scheme A color scheme consists of eight complementary colors designed to be used for the following elements of a publication: The Main color is for the text. The Accent 1 through Accent 5 colors are for objects other than text. The Hyperlink color is for indicating hyperlinks that have not been clicked. The Followed Hyperlink color is for indicating visited hyperlinks. Understanding color schemes can help you create professional-looking publications that use an appropriate balance of color.

You are not limited to using the colors in a publication’s color scheme, nor are you limited to using the color schemes that come with Publisher, but because they have been selected by professional designers based on good design principles, using them ensures that your publications will be more pleasing to the eye.

The Color Scheme list in the Customize pane that appears when you select a publication type displays four of the eight colors in each scheme—Accent 1 through Accent 4—to give you an idea of the feeling evoked by that combination of colors.

By default, the Main text color is always black. After you create a publication, you can switch to a different color scheme by clicking Color Schemes in the Format Publication task pane. If the task pane is closed, you can click Color Schemes on the Format menu to open it with the color scheme list displayed.

Tip If none of the color schemes is exactly what you are looking for, you can create your own by selecting a starting color scheme preferably one that is close to what you want , clicking Create New Color Scheme at the bottom of the Color Schemes pane, and then choosing colors in the Create New Color Scheme dialog box.

After you save the scheme with a name of your choosing, it appears at the top of the Color Schemes list both in the Format Publication task pane and in the Getting Started window, and you can apply it to any publication in the usual way.

However, bear in mind that, whether you use cartridge ink to print copies of an invitation on your own printer or print copies at a commercial copy or print shop, color costs money. For small print jobs—for example, 10 invitations—you will probably want to buy a package of high-quality paper and print the copies yourself.

But for larger print jobs—for example, invitations—you might be tempted to use the high-speed color copier at your local copy shop. How much will those copies cost you? It depends on a lot of different options: the quality, color, and weight usually expressed in pounds per sheets of the paper, the number of ink colors, the dimensions of the publication, whether it requires folding, and so on. Depending on the purpose of the publication, that might be way too expensive.

A quick way of getting an idea of the cost of your project is to upload your publication to an online printer, select the options you want, and then see what the price would be. Black ink on colored paper, higher-quality paper, or fancy preprinted paper is more expensive, but is certainly more affordable than color copies.

When using colored or patterned paper as part of the design of a publication, you will obviously need to use common sense to ensure that your publication is attractive and readable. But if cost is a concern, this option might provide a way of introducing color into a publication without breaking the budget.

Creating Folded Cards Color Models On the Standard tab of the Colors dialog box, you can select from colors presented in a honeycomb spectrum and a shade grayscale. On the Custom tab of the Colors dialog box, you can select from the following three color models and then specify a color either visually by dragging a crosshair across a spectrum or by entering values in boxes: RGB.. This model is a method of creating colors by using combinations of red, green, and blue.

The model is linked to the development of the cathode ray tube CRT , which was for many years the standard technology used in televisions and computer monitors. This model analyzes a color in terms of its position in the rainbow hue , its purity or vividness saturation , and its brightness luminance. Essentially, saturation is a measure of the amount of white added to the hue, and luminance is the measure of the amount of black added to the hue. This model is a method of creating colors by using combinations of cyan bluish-green , magenta purplish-red , yellow, and black.

Before the advent of digital printing, almost all colored printing involved a printing process that uses four plates to print the four CMYK colors in such a way that they are perceived as other colors.

Because this color model is closely tied to this printing process, cyan, magenta, yellow, and black are also known as process colors.. This proprietary system was developed by Pantone, Inc. This system uses sheets of numbered color swatches to identify colors created with precise amounts of pigment. Because Pantone colors are premixed to a single ink or dye, they are sometimes referred to as spot colors.. As a general rule, you can use the RGB or HSL color model for publications designed to be viewed on the computer screen or digitally printed.

After you use a non-color-scheme color in a publication, it becomes available on all the palettes that appear when you click buttons that apply color—for example, the Font Color button on the Formatting toolbar. The color remains on the palettes associated with the publication—even if you stop using the color or change the color scheme applied to the publication. Choosing Text Most publications that you create based on Publisher templates will include placeholders for text.

The placeholder text might be suggested wording or simply indicate the type of information to insert in that text box. When you create an invitation, Publisher suggests text that is appropriate to the invitation template you choose. In this exercise, you will create a folded card based on a layout template. You will change the color scheme before and after you create the publication, change the verse, apply different colors, and change the stacking order of elements on the page.

USE the FoldedCardd publication. In the Publication Types list, click Invitation Cards, and then scroll the center pane to get an idea of the range of publications available.

Creating Folded Cards 69 Notice in the right pane that the Page Size and Layout options are unavailable gray , indicating that this is a general design template rather than a layout template. In the category list, click Theme Party, and then in the Theme Party category, click the Picnic thumbnail.

Notice in the right pane that the Page Size and Layout options are available, indicating that this is a layout template. Under Options in the right pane, click the Page size arrow, and then in the list, click Quarter-page top fold.

Then click the Layout arrow, and toward the top of the list, click Juxtaposition. The preview thumbnail changes as you select each option. Under Customize in the right pane, click the Color scheme arrow, and scroll through the list, noting all the different options. Toward the bottom of the list, click Oriel, and then scroll the center pane.

Publisher has applied the Oriel color scheme to all the templates. In the Party category, double-click the Blocks thumbnail. Publisher creates an invitation card divided into four pages the front of the card, the inside spread, and the back of the card. Tip Although you cannot change the orientation and size of this design template in the Getting Started window, you can change them after you create the card by clicking Change Page Size in the Format Publication task pane to display the Page Setup dialog box.

Troubleshooting Information inserted from an information set is indicated by a blue dotted underline.

The dotted underline is an on-screen indicator, and will not be printed. To replace or update a placeholder with text or a logo saved in an information set, point to the placeholder, click the smart tag that appears, and then click Update From Business Information Set. On the page sorter, click the Page 2 button to display pages 2 and 3. The Suggested Verse dialog box opens. Creating Folded Cards 71 Publisher displays the message text that will appear on the front page of the card in the First Message Part window, and the text that will appear inside the card in the Second Message Part window.

Click OK to insert the selected text. You can customize the messages and the other text on the card to suit your needs. In this exercise, we will focus on adjusting the color. Display page 4. The current color scheme does not coordinate well with the company logo. In the Format Publication task pane, click Color Schemes, and then click various color schemes, observing the effect on the card to the right.

In the Apply a color scheme list, click Harbor. Font Color The Colors dialog box opens with the Standard color spectrum displayed. In the Colors spectrum, click the dark red hexagon. Click OK. Then with the text still selected, on the Standard toolbar, click the Format Format Painter Painter button once. Tip Format Painter is a nifty tool that allows you to copy multiple formatting characteristics from one element to another. To copy formatting to only one element, click the Format Painter button once.

To copy formatting to multiple elements, doubleclick the Format Painter button. The feature will then remain active until you either press the Esc key or click the Format Painter button again. The text changes to the same font, color, and size as the text in the right square.

On the Formatting toolbar, click the Decrease Font Size button three times, and Decrease Font Size then click a blank area of the publication to see the results. In the center of the page spread, click the large square containing the invitation details once. Publisher selects the grouped objects on the page spread. Click the square a second time. Publisher selects only the large square, as indicated by the gray handles.

On the Formatting toolbar, click the Line Color arrow. Line Color The dark red color you applied in step 19 from the Colors dialog box appears on the palette below the eight scheme colors. Click the Dark Red square. As you can see, the non-color-scheme color is available for use with all color formatting tools.

Click the bottom or right edge of the gray square on page 3 twice to select it not Fill Color the heavy black outline. Then on the Formatting toolbar, click the Fill Color arrow, and click the sixth color Hyperlink square. Tip Pointing to a color displays the purpose and the name or value of the color in a ScreenTip. Use what you have learned about color to enhance the card in various ways. CLOSE the open publications without saving your changes. Different colors can send different messages.

Be aware of these factors when selecting colors for a publication: Cool colors tend to recede and are ideal as background colors. Bright colors tend to bring objects forward visually. Muted or darker colors tend to make objects recede. Placing colors with the same intensity, such as red and green, next to each other can make it hard for some people to distinguish the objects.

Color can be used to highlight information, but be careful about the implications of some colors. For example, red is commonly used for negative numbers. Using too many colors is distracting and creates a hodge-podge where no particular object stands out on the page.

Creating Postcards Using postcards is a simple way to send information to customers, club members, family, or friends. Publisher comes with many templates for two-sided postcards. Most are designed to occupy a quarter page, but a few have quarter-page or halfpage options.

All have a primary side called Side 1 and a secondary side called Side 2, with most of the layout options for the second side including space for an address and postage.

Creating Postcards 75 Printing Both Sides of Thick Paper Before you create a two-sided publication such as a postcard, you need to decide how you will print it. Because postcards are designed to be mailed, the paper they are printed on has to be substantial enough to withstand sorting and bagging processes without crumpling or tearing. Costs vary enormously depending on the quality of the paper, its size, its color, and whether it is has a preprinted design.

Before you take the second route, you should run the Two-Sided Printing Setup Wizard to ensure that you correctly feed the paper; otherwise you might end up with both Side 1 and Side 2 printed on the same side of the card, or printed with different top sides.

Important Depending on your printer, you might need to manually feed each sheet of card stock rather than loading up your paper tray with multiple sheets. So be sure to run tests with regular paper and then with one sheet of card stock before printing many postcards.

If you want to print many postcards and printing them yourself is not an option, you can take your publication to a copy or print shop.

Cutting the sheets into four is an additional cost. Some of these Web sites are intuitive to use and provide cost calculators to give immediate pricing for exactly the number of postcards you need. A few options include: iPrint www. Some online vendors also offer shipping services, so you can upload your publication and an address list and leave the rest to them.

Using Mail Merge If you communicate with customers or members of an organization by means of postcards and other marketing pieces that are sent to everyone on a mailing list, you might want to use a process called mail merge.

 
 

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