December 01 2005

Welcome to another month on the technological merry-go-round

If Publisher is not on your desktop, go to

Start > Programs > Microsoft Office > Publisher

Creating a publication - the creative phase of ET

First Creations - certificates of greatness

By the end of today's class you will be able to:

Start with a pre-designed Publisher publication and create your own publication - it will be on the sport of your choice.
Add text to your sport's publication, revise and reposition the text, create columns, and continue a story on another page of why this is 'the sport for you'.
Add a picture to a publication, change how the picture looks, and control how text wraps around it.
If our printer is working [we are waiting on ink] you will print and fold it.

Go to 'New' > Publication for Print.When you choose the type of publication you want to create, Publisher displays thumbnails of the available designs, such as these newsletter thumbnails. To base your publication on one of the designs, simply click a thumbnail.
Select each type of publication and see what submenus there are.

On the left side of the screen you will see the New Publication Task Pane (see the image on the right).

We’ll use the Publications from Print area to initially begin each publication.

It is used in all of their Office modules. It replaces the Microsoft Publisher Catalog that was a part of

the initial Publisher 2000 screen. Once you get used to the Task Pane, and its flexibility, we think you’ll like it.

Move your cursor over Publications to Print and click-the left mouse button.

Exercise One: Make an Award Certificate

1. Make a folder in your ET > Word > TWO folder called Publication

Publication for Print > Award Certificates

MAKE YOURSELF A CERTIFICATE and save it in your Word > TWO > Publication as “certificate”

USE YOUR OWN COLOR AND FONT SCHEMES - in the side panel

Exercise Two: Make a Flyer

Make a flyer for a fund raiser for your favorite sport’s team > add graphics and fill in all the spaces

MAKE YOURSELF A FLYER and save it in your Word > TWO > Publication as “flyer”

Fill in all the details in the pop-up thingy

Editing Titles

Notice the title area at the top. We’ll start our editing here. Move your cursor over the title object and click-the left mouse button on the title object.

Changing Title and Title Text Colors

Do some RIGHT mouse button clicking. If you place the cursor arrow over any object in a Microsoft product and click the RIGHT mouse button, a “tailored” drop down menu appears with features “tailored” to the area/object on which you clicked. Point the cursor arrow to the middle of you title text (make sure the text is highlighted) and click the RIGHT mouse button. A drop down menu will appear. Notice, that at exact place where you clicked in the title, a corner of the menu box appears. This indicates exactly “where” you clicked. Use this drop down menu to change the text color.

Changing the Color of the Text Background Box

Change the background colors in the AutoShape (the colored oval around your text), if you desire. Again, carefully point to the edge of the colored oval and click the right mouse button. The drop down menu box to the right will appear. This right click has to be precise. You must see the menu to the right and choose Format Object.

USE SOME FILL EFFECTS

Grouping and Ungrouping Groups of Objects

After you have made your text and background changes you may choose to ungroup the various objects that make up the title object group. We talked about this at the top of Page 12. One nice thing - if you ungroup the objects, and move them, it makes editing, coloring and sizing the individual objects easier. After you have made any changes you desire, you can re-group the objects in any pattern you desire. Once you have done this you may again click on the group objects button.

When you do, you will see the objects re-group. This new group will now move as a single group.

If you do not see the object buttons (above to the right), we’ll now explain how to group objects that are not grouped.

Changing and Editing Images and Photographs

You should now be in the zoomed-in view on the grouped objects that you just worked with (on the last Page). Tap the F9 key to zoom-out so that you can view the entire Flyer. When you can see the entire Flyer you will see a photograph in the lower left portion of the Flyer. Click-on the photograph, then tap the F9 key to zoom-in again.

Exercise Three: Make a Menu

MAKE YOURSELF A MENU and save it in your Word > TWO > Publication as “menu”

Use Clip Art - and design something brilliant! Make use of the 'Menu Options' in the left - panel