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DESKTOP PUBLISHING

Madeleine Wright. and Peter Wentworth. DESKTOP PUBLISHING. Use the Design Checker. Start the Design Checker from Publisher’s Tools Menu It performs more than 40 checks on your document. Printing too close to the edge of the paper,

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DESKTOP PUBLISHING

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  1. Madeleine Wright and Peter Wentworth DESKTOP PUBLISHING

  2. Use the Design Checker • Start the Design Checker from Publisher’s Tools Menu • It performs more than 40 checks on your document. • Printing too close to the edge of the paper, • Some text not shown because it does not fit into a textbox, • An image has been resized, but the aspect ratio is now wrong, • The font you have chosen is not web ready, • ... • In the Design Checker panel, choose Design Checker Options, and use the Checks tab to see what it checks for.

  3. Here Design checker reports two problems ... • When it reports a problem • click on the item • click on the arrow • you can ask it to Go to the item with the problem, or • it may offer a way to Fix it, or • Explain (usually has clear explanations, and help on how to can fix it).

  4. Learn somekeyboard shortcuts • The menu system can teach you. • They’re often the same across different Office tools!

  5. Understand layers • Objects at the front take priority. The text in the boxes at the back will be pushed around to make space. • Fill your objects with background colours to understand this easily. • Try crashing two text boxes, pictures, or autoshapes into each other. Can you see the layers? Which text flows to give way to the other?

  6. Select the right thing • A text box holds text. • There are subtle visual cues telling you whether you have the contents of the box in focus, or the box itself. • Click on text to focus the contents. Try typing, or using arrow keys. • Escape moves the focus to the container. Arrowkeys now move the box.

  7. Text or its container? • With contents selected, the Formatting toolbar is active. • With the container in focus, it is disabled.

  8. Turn on and use your objects toolbar • Demo docking, undocking and closing panes.

  9. An object (autoshape, picture, wordArt, etc.)INSIDE the text boxcontrols how text wraps around it.

  10. To set wrapping options • Right click and Format Autoshape(or Format xxx ) • On the Layout tab select a Wrapping Style.

  11. Group objects • How to group: • Multi-select the objects, by selecting one, then hold Ctrl while clicking on the others. • You’ll get a button that you can click to group them.

  12. Once you have a group • You can copy / paste / resize / move the group as a single item, all at once. • You may not be able to move individual parts of the group relative to others, and when you try to select a subpart only, you’ll see the handles are different ... • You may need to Ungroup, change, then group again.

  13. Use tables for presenting data • Measurements, results, etc. • Your weekly lecture timetable, etc.

  14. When formatting tables • Know whether you have one or more cells selected, or the whole table selected • Same user interface cues as before – • Formatting toolbar active or not. • position of handles • Demo for table styles,adding rows or columns,merging cells, and gridlines.

  15. Use Autoshapes to draw diagrams, flowcharts, processes etc.

  16. You can find Publisher’s autoshapes on the object toolbar • Right click – you can format every autoshape individually. • If you have formatted an autoshape to your liking, consider copying and pasting to make replicas for consistency in other parts of your diagram. • Group the parts when you’re done!

  17. Use of groups and connectors • Use connectors. • Each autoshape has anchor points. • Then when you move around the items, the connectors adjust themselves. • This works in PowerPoint too • The important principle is that your skills are transferable. David Mine Sally Yours

  18. Find the Design Gallery! “To catch the reader's attention, place an interesting sentence or quote from the story here.”

  19. Use shadows or 3D effects to make an impact! This is my text with a shadow for emphasis. Or use a 3D effect

  20. Play more, learn a lot • Find your own project to do in Publisher: • An assignment for another course, • A party invitation, • A pamphlet advertising the Rowing Club ... • Working on your own agenda will improve your engagement with the tools. Don’t wait for us to tell you what to do. • Learn to use Help. • Enjoy!

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