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Quick Studies September 2001 • Vol.12 Issue 9 |
 Microsoft Publisher 2000 Create A Newsletter | ||
 All The News That Fits To use Publisher's Newsletter wizard, launch Publisher. In the Microsoft Publisher Catalog, click the Publications By Wizard tab. Click Newsletters in the Wizards pane and you'll see thumbnails of templates in the Newsletter pane on the right. Scroll the list, click Linear Accent Newsletter, and click Start Wizard.
Double-sided printing is the default setting for this newsletter. To print to a single-sided newsletter, click the radio button for Single Sided. Publisher warns you that this choice will modify the pages to match the new layout. If you wish to print a single-sided document, click Yes. Click Finish to begin working on your newsletter. Click the Hide Wizard button at the bottom to view your newsletter on the full Desktop. Click Save (from the File menu) to name and save this project. Click the Zoom tool (the plus [+] sign) on the Standard toolbar to zoom in for a closer look. Personalizing Content This four-page newsletter consists of a series of placeholder boxes containing boilerplate text and graphics. You must replace existing content with your own. For example, to replace existing headline text, click the text (Newsletter Title) in the headline box, and you'll see selector handles along the outside of the headline box, indicating that you've selected it and can now manipulate the box or its contents. Type a new name for this newsletter, such as Digital Deli. You may want to click the center align tool on the Formatting toolbar to center the heading. Type the Volume and Issue Numbers, the Newsletter Date, and a subhead for your newsletter in the appropriate fields. To insert text from an existing Publisher (PUB), plain text (TXT), Rich Text Format (RTF), Microsoft Word (DOC), WordPerfect for DOS 5 or WordPerfect for Windows (WPD), or Microsoft Excel (XLS) file, click the Publisher story that you want to replace so that it highlights, and select Text File from the Insert menu. Navigate to the folder containing the file you want to import. Click to select it and click OK. Publisher pours the text into the selected frame. If file text doesn't completely fit the frame, an alert pops up inquiring if you want to use Autoflow. If you click Yes, Publisher automatically flows the text through the publication, asking your permission whenever it needs to flow into another existing frame. If you click No, you must connect the frames manually. You can also Copy selected text in an existing document and paste it in your Publisher template. Create A Drop Cap Drop Caps (a big, fancy first letter of text) grab attention. To add a Drop Cap, click anywhere in the paragraph where you want this Cap to go. Click the Format drop-down menu and select Drop Cap. In the Drop Cap dialog box, click a Drop Cap format from the available Drop Caps pane. Publisher displays your selection in the dialog's Preview window. If you like what you see, click Apply or OK. If you don't see anything appropriate, click the Custom Drop Cap tab to design your own, using options presented. Click OK when you're finished. Once you create a custom Drop Cap, Publisher adds it to the list of available Drop Caps on the Drop Cap tab. Insert A Graphic To replace a graphic placeholder, click the graphic to select it and click the Insert drop-down menu. Expand Picture and click Clip Art. The Insert Clip Art dialog box opens. To narrow the search, look for an art clip by keyword. Enter a keyword in the Search For Clips box at the top of the screen. Publisher displays thumbnail representations of the clip-art matches it retrieves. Click one to select it and click Insert Clip from the pop-up graphic menu (the top choice), which inserts the graphic in your document.  by Carol Holzberg, Ph.D. |
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