Publisher

Course Specifications

Course Length: 1 Day, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm

Location: Entre Technology Services, LLC  1501 N. 14th St. West, Suite 1511

Registration: Call your Account Manager at 406.256.5700 or use our Registration Forms

Course Description

Publisher Level 1 is designed for students who have little or no experience using Microsoft Publisher. You will learn how to create a mulitpage document, import and format text and graphics and use Publishers commands to lay out the document.

This is the only ElementK 2003 Publisher class.

Course Prerequisites

Windows 2000/Windows XP Level 1 or equivalent knowledge of operating the computer. 
Word Level 1 and PowerPoint Level 1, or a general knowledge of Word and PowerPoint, are useful.

Delivery Method

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model.

Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to

Navigate in the Microsoft Publisher environment
Create new multi-page documents
Import text and graphics from other applications
Format text using fonts, sizes, type styles, and line spacing
Use alignments, tabs, and indents to align text
Create common elements such as page numbers and design guides that will appear on each page of a document
Create documents containing multiple columns
Flow several independent stories throughout a document
Wrap text around graphics

Course Content

Lesson 1: Creating a One-Page Document

Start a document from a Publication Design
Change Publication Design elements
Save and print a document
Modify text boxes
Format text
ClipArt

Lesson 2: Creating a Multi-Page Document

Determine page setup
Add design elements to a Master Page/Background
Insert Ruler and Layout guides
Import text
Link text
Columns
Spell Check

Lesson 3: Formatting Text

Create Tabs
Determine Line Spacing
Insert symbols
Create and modify styles
Create indents

Lesson 4: Inserting and Modifying Graphics

Insert images
Crop an image
Draw shapes
Format shapes

Lesson 5: Inserting and Modifying Tables

Insert and modify a table
Merge cells
Insert text in table
Resize table, columns and rows
Format a table

Lesson 6: Draw a Logo

Use Drawing tools
WordArt
Manipulating objects
Stacking and grouping
Save an illustration as a graphic

Lesson 7: Create Office Stationery

Use Special Paper
Use Publications By Design
Create an address list
Use MailMerge