Creating Customized Publications with Publisher 2007

Overview/Description
Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 helps you expand your creativity by enabling you to customize and share a wide range of personal and business publications to suit both home and office requirements. You can use this application to quickly create and personalize professional-looking publications such as newsletters and flyers. This course explores the wide range of available templates and the creating, editing, printing, and publishing tools at your disposal. It also introduces the new features of Microsoft Publisher 2007, and delves into redesigned and enhanced familiar features.

Target Audience
Office personnel at all levels; those wishing to become familiar with Publisher 2007.

Prerequisites
Knowledge of basic word processing and computing; familiarity with the Microsoft Windows and Office environments

Expected Duration (hours)
3.0

Lesson Objectives

Creating Customized Publications with Publisher 2007

recognize where to locate common commands in Publisher 2007

change placeholder text and images in a predesigned template

open a publication type

add content to a blank publication

customize schemes and select options

create new business information

save publication in another file format

create master pages for repeating page elements

save items to and reuse items from the Content Library

reformat existing publications as different publication types

open and customize a template

create a master page using items from the content library

add content to the publication

reformat publication as a new publication type

arrange and group objects on the page

add decorative text features

format a picture

use the Design Checker to find problems in a publication

print a publication using a desktop printer

recognize how to prepare for commercial printing

add professional touches to a publication

use Design Checker to check a publication

change the color model to prepare for professional publication

print a publication