Publisher 2003
Learn how to create professional looking publications and in house marketing materials with Publisher. The course is perfect for those who have light marketing duties within their role.
Free Taster CoursesOverview
Learn how to create professional looking publications and in house marketing materials with Publisher. The course is perfect for those who have light marketing duties within their role. With this programme you will be able to create, customise, and publish materials such as business newsletters, brochures, flyers and catalogues. Successful completion of this course will enable you to work towards further qualifications
Aims and Objectives
To teach desk top publishing skills to OCR CLAiT Plus Level 2 using this popular publishing program
Target Audience
Those familiar with using Microsoft Word who want to learn desk top publishing skills using Publisher
Prerequisites
Basic working knowledge of Windows and the Word program
Course content
- Lesson 1: Including: Loading the program, becoming familiar with the opening screen and the various types of publication, opening a blank publication, creating text boxes, resizing and moving an object, entering text and basic formatting, opening and editing a publication design, saving a new publication, printing a publication, closing the program.
- Lesson 2: Including: Navigating a multi-page publication, deleting pages in publication, selecting objects as a group, deleting grouped objects, resizing text boxes, saving a publication as a template. opening a publication based on a custom template, inserting clip art, inserting text from another program, spellchecking a publication, hiding boundaries and guides.
- Lesson 3: Including: Checking page setup, using rulers and ruler guides, using layout guides and grids, inserting a page, applying best fit to text boxes, grouping and ungrouping objects. copying and pasting grouped objects, using print preview, knowing about advanced print options.
- Lesson 4: Including: Inserting headers and footers on master pages, recognising serif and sans serif font styles, changing the vertical alignment of text, changing bullet style and indentation, using format painter to copy formatting, adjusting spacing between lines, using word art, creating text box links, changing the order of objects, creating columns and determining gutter spacing, using tables to display text, understanding proof reading symbols.
- Lesson 5: Including: applying a design to a blank publication, layering pictures, using drawing tools, changing text wrapping, cropping pictures, cropping pictures, using easy web site builder to create a site, adding a web page, editing navigation bars, creating links/hyperlinks using text, pictures and hotspots, inserting web graphics, inserting graphics/movies and sound files, adding a description and keywords, saving and publishing a website
