Course outline
Introduction• Explanation of the main Publisher screen
• Creating a new document using Wizards
• Creating a new document using Designs
• Creating a blank new document
Creating and formatting text
• Understanding sans serif and serif typefaces
• When to use bold, italic and underline type styles
• Importing text files
• Adjusting the flow of text
• Formatting paragraphs
• Creating text styles
Working with graphics
• Understanding basic file extensions
• Working with bitmap & vector images
• Cropping images
• Using the wrap function
Design and longer document features
• Understanding and laying out document backgrounds
• Using the automatic page numbering facility
• Using the layout guides and rulers
• Drawing and formatting basic images
• Using the Group function
Output and other issues
• Printing and output
• Summary overview of all relevant pull down menu commands
• Final exercise
