Publisher 2007, Introduction
You're starting Microsoft® Publisher 2007 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.
Audience
Students will benefit from this course if their goal is to learn the basic features of Publisher 2007 and use them to create both basic and multi-page publications, work with master pages, format text and paragraphs, work with tables, and output publications for sharing and commercial printing.
Students taking this course should be familiar with personal computers and the use of a keyboard and a mouse. Furthermore, this course assumes that students have completed the following courses or have equivalent experience:
- Windows XP: Basic or Windows Vista: Basic
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify the components of the Publisher interface, customize the workspace, and get help using Publisher.
- Create a new publication, set margin guides and units of measurements, insert and edit text and graphics, create and apply custom colors, and position elements precisely.
- Create a facing-pages layout, insert pages, move items between publications, and work with master pages.
- Flow text between text boxes, create continuation notices, apply tab stops, leaders, indents, bullets, and keep settings, and format paragraphs.
- Create and modify tables, rows, and columns, position content within table cells, apply color fills, adjust cell border attributes, insert images in table cells, and edit an Excel file directly in Publisher.
- Arrange text in text boxes, format text box frames, add columns to text boxes, control text wrapping, modify picture frames, adjust the stacking order of page elements, and group and ungroup items.
- CertBlaster preparation and materials also included.
- Unit 1: Getting started
- Unit 2: Basic documents
- Unit 3: Multi-page publications
- Unit 4: Working with text
- Unit 5: Tables
- Unit 6: Layout and design techniques
- Unit 7: Finalizing documents
In order for a class to be successful, all students should share the same general level
of knowledge and experience. If a participant does not demonstrate these, the instructor will take
the necessary steps either to prepare the participant or place him/her in a more appropriate course.
This policy is intended to maintain the high level of quality control that you have come to expect.