Modern OS supplemented software that allow you to solve any problem. One of these add-ons is Microsoft Publisher. It makes it easy to create and publish high-quality content and professional-quality web pages.
Program Microsoft Publisher designed specifically for users who are serious about creating printed works. Publisher provides the user with the necessary combination of advanced features of a desktop publishing system, consisting of templates, a layout checker, compatibility with the package Microsoft Office, as well as print and web publishing functions. Using these features greatly helps in improving your work efficiency.
Functional Microsoft capabilities Office Publisher:
Paragraph-level formatting in Microsoft program Office Word, including indentations and spacing, and end-of-line or paragraph formatting.
Dialog for creating bulleted and numbered lists.
Functions for searching and replacing text across an entire publication or an individual text block.
With Publisher's convenient, feature-rich start menu, you can get started quickly.
Using the new sections of the New Publication task pane, you can get started by choosing a publication type (print, email, or online), choosing a template, or creating a publication from scratch.
Use the Quick Publication Options task pane to configure publishing options. You can choose colors, font schemes, page layout settings, and design elements, and then simply add your own text and images.
Publisher includes numerous templates for customization, design assistance, and a full suite of desktop publishing tools. Additionally, the Auto Convert feature allows users to convert any publication for online use.
Publisher has full support for professional printing tools, including four-color and multicolor printing.
Publisher is installed when you install Microsoft Office. After loading the publishing system, the Task Pane window appears on the screen, which is located on the left side of the Publisher screen (in right side screen in other Office applications) searches, opens or creates new documents, views the contents of the clipboard, and formats publications. The task field provides a visual representation of the copied data and sample text, making it easy to select the desired element to paste into other documents.
As with all applications Office package, the task pane is a centralized place where users can create new file or open an existing one. The New Publication task pane in Publisher combines the Publisher catalog (a place to browse publication layouts and types when creating a new document) and a wizard window.
Users can create a new publication by starting by revising a set of layouts (e.g., Slices, Lattice), publication type (e.g., newsletter, booklet), or start right away by creating a blank publication.
IN new version The Publisher application includes a collection of graphic samples to help you select the desired type of publication.
Publisher now supports the Office clipboard. ("Edit" - "Clipboard"). With the enhanced clipboard, users can copy up to 24 items simultaneously across all Office applications and store data and information in the task tray.
There is a built-in search for information in the task area (in the "File" menu, select the "Find" command). You can also search folders and files, no matter where they are stored, while continuing to work on the current document. In addition, users can index files on their computer. The search is faster and more efficient.
Post layouts make it easier to select a publication layout and apply a new layout (from the Format menu, select Post Layouts).
The taskbar also contains Color schemes (select the color of the publication), font schemes (in the "Format" menu, select the "Font schemes" command): using font schemes, you can easily and quickly select a set of fonts that combine well with each other. Font schemes created style-based and support the style found in Word. You can apply a font scheme to the imported Word document or a publication created in Publisher. In this case, the font and color schemes are adequately applied to the entire publication.
The Styles and Formatting task pane (Format menu, click Styles and Formatting) shows the style and formatting options you can apply to text of this document. Changes made to any parameters are immediately reflected in the document. If the user creates his own style, the latter is automatically added to the list of available options.
The latest version of the Publisher application has general application Word Enhanced Mail Merge (From the Tools menu, choose Mail Merge, then Mail Merge Wizard). This feature lets you easily merge a publication using information from Word, Outlook, Excel, Works, and more. widely used address books and databases.There are thousands of pictures, sounds, photographs, and animations on the Internet that can be accessed directly from Publisher.
The Design Gallery Live library (formerly Clip Gallery Live) is updated monthly, allowing users to continually expand their publication design capabilities. Application users
Publisher can also find printable versions of their favorite photos (with more high resolution) on the CDs that came with Publisher 2002 (from the Insert menu, choose Drawing),
Publisher includes autoshapes used in other applications of the Office family (on the vertical "Objects" toolbar, click the "Autoshapes" button), ready-to-use autoshapes include lines, connectors, basic shapes, curly arrows, flowchart elements, callouts, stars and ribbons, you can resize, rotate, flip, fill in shapes and combine them with shapes such as circles and squares to create more complex shapes, if you need to add text, you can enter it into the corresponding AutoShape,
The Format dialog box has the following tabs: Colors and Lines, Size, Layout, Picture, Text Box, and Web. They allow you to format objects in the "Format" menu, select the "Format Object" command,
Preview allows you to view the design, layout and content of the publication before printing, you can also view color separations and trapping (in the "File" menu, select the "View" command), on the top of the screen there are toolbars that can be edited or created new panels for adding icons In existing panels, in the "Tools" menu, select the "Settings" command,
In the "Settings" dialog, in the Categories field there are all kinds of categories of commands. They are mainly grouped by the name of the menus they are included in, but there are lists of commands under the names of categories that we rarely or never encounter,
If in common applications such as Microsoft Word there is a category “All commands”, and there it is easier for you to find your commands by simple visual browsing, then the most common commands for insertions seem to be collected in two menus - Insert (Insert) and Format (Format), Toolbar "Image Adjustment" is used to change the color and brightness, task transparent colors, cropping an image, inserting an image obtained using a scanner, changing the style of lines and borders, choosing a text wrapping option, formatting the image and restoring its original parameters (in the "View" menu, select "Toolbars", select "Image Settings").
Let's take a look at the Toolbar. It is located on the left side of the screen, to the left of the working field.
Let's list all the elements of the toolbar from top to bottom:
Select Objects (Select objects, the tool is simply called Arrow)
Text Box (Text block, Frame)
Insert Table... (Insert Table...);
WordArt... (Insert a WordArt Object)
Picture Frame
Clip Organizer Frame
Line, Arrow
Oval (Oval, Ellipse)
Rectangle
AutoShapes
Form Control
HTML Code Fragment ... (Fragment TO HTML ...);
Design Gallery Object... (Object from the Design Gallery). Creating a publication from scratch in MS Publisher
To create a publication from scratch, you must complete the following steps:
1. From the File menu, select New.
2. In the “Creating Publication” task area, in the “Create” group, perform one of the following actions: A. To create a publication that needs to be printed, select the “Blank Publication” command. B. To create a web page, select the “Blank Web Page” command.
3. Add text, drawings and any other necessary objects to the publication.
5. In the “Folder” field, select the folder in which you want to save the new publication.
6. In the "File name" field, enter the name of the file to be published.
7. In the "File Type" field, select "Publisher Files".
Using Post Layouts and Templates
To create publications using layouts, perform the following steps:
1. From the "File" menu, select "New"
2. In the "New Publication" task pane, in the "Start with Layout" group, select the "Layout Set" command.
3. On the taskbar, select the desired set of layouts.
4. In the collection viewing window, select the desired publication type.
Select one of the following options: To change the publication layout, click the “Publication Layouts” button in the task area. To change the color scheme of a publication, select the "Color Schemes" command in the task area. To change the font scheme of a publication, select the "Font Schemes" command in the task area. To change page content settings when creating a web page, newsletter, or publication directory, select the "Page Content" command. Change or choose any Extra options in the taskbar for the created publication type.
5. We replace the text of the miscezapovnyuvac and drawings in the publication with our own or other objects.
7. In the “Folder” field, select the folder in which you want to save the new publication.
8. In the "File name" field, enter the name of the file to be published. In the "File Type" field, select "Publisher Files"). Click the "Save" button.
To create a publication using templates, we create this template in advance. To do this, after creating a publication, when storing it, select “Save As” from the “File” menu. In the “File name” field, enter the file name for the template. In the "File Type" field, select "Publisher Template". To create a publication based on the created template you need:
1. In the "File" menu, select the "New" command.
2. In the New Publication task pane, in the Start with Layout group, select the Templates command.
3. In the collection viewing window, select the desired template.
4. Make the necessary changes.
6. In the "Folder" field, select the folder in which you want to save the new publication.
7. In the File Name field, enter a name for the file you want to publish.
8. In the "File Type" field, select "Publisher Files".
General plan for creating a publication (postcard)
1. Select material for creating a postcard.
2. Consider the size of the postcard and its background.
3. Think about the location of objects on the work area.
4. Determine the number of colors to use.
5. Select the fonts to use and define the styles.
6. Start creating a publication.
Among the programs in the Microsoft Office family, the Microsoft Publisher publishing system ( latest version- Publisher 2000), included in the extended edition of the Microsoft Office suite, occupies one of the main places. Users who work with this program tend to note it high level convenience and great opportunities.
Microsoft Publisher is a text publishing system (sometimes these programs are called desktop publishing systems), in its functionality not inferior to recognized leaders among professional products of this class, such as Adobe PageMaker or Corel Ventura Publisher. Like most products in the Microsoft Office family, Publisher is available in several localized versions, in particular, there is a Russian version.
As you know, Microsoft Office includes another powerful tool for working with texts - word processor Word. However, Word is intended primarily for creating documents that have a fairly simple structure, and does not have many of the specific functions inherent in real layout systems.
Working with Microsoft Publisher is similar to working with most other layout systems, only perhaps even simpler. Publisher documents (files with the *.pub extension, called publications) consist of pages containing the main elements of the program - text blocks, tables, WordArt and OLE objects, pictures (in internal format and imported) and some others.
You can create publications in Publisher in a variety of ways. You can create a publication using a wizard, from scratch, from an existing publication, or from a template.
The most convenient way is to create a publication using the wizard. To do this, select the menu item File > New. You are taken to the publication catalog window, in which you need to select the “Publication Wizard” page and on it - a specific type of publication. Publisher provides a truly inexhaustible set of templates for creating your documents. These include newsletters, postcards, advertisements, Web sites, and dozens of other types of publications. Moreover, many types have several subtypes of templates designed to satisfy every taste. After you've created your publication using the wizard, you can begin making further changes. A typical view of an open document is shown in the illustration.
Microsoft Publisher 2000 Basic Objects
Working with Microsoft Publisher is no more difficult than writing or drawing by hand on a piece of paper. It is enough to know a few main elements included in program documents and simple rules for handling them.
The main object of Publisher is a text frame (block). A frame is a container containing text or other objects. Unlike Microsoft Word, when you create a “blank” Publisher document, you cannot immediately enter text. To do this, you need to place a text frame on the page. To place a frame, just click on the frame button in the main toolbar and make a second click on the page.
After this, you can enter text in the frame that appears. Publisher allows you to perform the usual actions with text for layout systems: set various character attributes and paragraph properties. You can set line spacing, character spacing, tab placement, and some other properties. Text in a frame can be aligned not only horizontally ( traditional ways alignment: right, left, center and width), but also vertically - place at the top of the frame, bottom or in the middle. It is also possible to place text in several columns. Like Microsoft Word, Publisher allows you to enter bulleted and numbered lists.
The program implements a mechanism for text flowing from one frame to another. If you need to enter large text that spans many pages, you do not need to take any additional steps. When the text you enter does not fit in the frame, the program will prompt you to create a new page and a new frame on it. If the user accepts this offer, Publisher will take care of everything at once: creating new page With new frame and about connecting frames so that the entered text can be entered from a filled frame into a new one. You can opt out of automatic frame and page creation: in this case, the text will go into the overflow area and will not be visible on the page. Linked frames are marked at the beginning and end with special markers.
The program supports a principle common to most layout systems: new pages are not automatically created or deleted, the user must inform the system about each addition and deletion.
A text frame is an object that can be manipulated as a single whole: moved, rotated to an arbitrary angle, changed height and width, deleted. You can set the type of shadow, fill, and border for the frame.
Another important element of Publisher is tables. Inserting a table into a document is as easy as inserting a text frame. The first click is to select the Table tool from the corresponding toolbar, then draw the outer frame of the table on the publication sheet. After this, the program opens a wizard that allows you to select the type of table design, number of rows, columns and some other characteristics. The appearance of the table after its creation can be varied within very wide limits. You can add and delete rows and columns, and change their sizes. For cells, you can choose the type of fill (color, texture or pattern), the type of frame (borders), and for internal text or objects - all the formatting and alignment options provided by the system. A table can be decorated with a shadow and formatted to resemble another table.
Publisher also supports including images in your documents. To insert a picture, you first need to create a picture frame, and then, having selected it, select the appropriate menu item. Pictures can be inserted into documents either from the program’s internal collection or imported from a graphic file. Publisher has an extensive built-in collection of images for almost all subjects. In addition to pictures, there is a built-in collection of sounds in WAV format and animated clips in GIF format(sounds and clips are used for insertion into WEB pages).
The program imports graphics from files of the main popular formats: BMP, GIF, EMF, WMF, JPG, PNG, PCX and some others. You can perform a wide variety of actions with the picture included in the document. You can give it a special shade, add a frame, set the type of text wrapping, create a shadow effect, change the size. Pictures can be scaled and cropped, leaving only part of the original image visible.
Publisher has a tool for drawing simple shapes - lines, rectangles, arrows, ovals and some others. In terms of creating shapes, Publisher's capabilities are somewhat more modest than those of Microsoft Word, which has a much wider selection of shapes.
You can insert OLE objects from other applications into Publisher documents. If, for example, you need to create a document containing formulas or charts, you can use applications from additional Microsoft Office tools - Microsoft Equation Editor (for inserting formulas) and Microsoft Graph (for creating charts).
Now a little about the general principles of placing and displaying objects. Publisher supports layering of objects in its documents. This means that all objects (text frames, pictures, and others) placed on the pages of a document seem to hang in three-dimensional space, that is, not only their position in the plane of the page is set (for example, the coordinates of the left top corner), but also the height of their placement above the page.
It must be said that real multi-layering (such as, for example, in Adobe Photoshop,) is not supported in Microsoft Publisher. But this, in general, is not necessary, since to depict objects in three-dimensional space it is important to know only their relative positions. This is exactly the approach implemented in the program. For overlapping objects, you can specify the relative position by specifying which object is in the foreground, which is in the background, and so on. If the objects do not overlap, then specifying the location for them, naturally, does not affect them in any way. appearance.
For objects, in addition to location, an alignment function is provided.
It allows you to place several objects along a horizontal or vertical line, or to align them symmetrically around a certain axis. To apply alignment, you need to select several objects (by clicking on them with the mouse while holding down the Shift key) and select the menu item Arrangement > Align Objects, and then set the alignment type in the window that appears.
Publisher has a built-in tool that is indispensable when creating a series of similar publications (for example, when creating issues of a newspaper or magazine). This tool, the Layout Library, serves as a repository for various frequently used program elements. The layout library consists of three parts: sections, object layouts, and user objects. Sections and object layouts are preset Publisher objects (or groups of objects) that you can use to create letterhead, calendars, advertisements, logos, and other publications. These parts of the layout library come with the program, but can easily be edited or removed. User objects are part of a library that is created entirely by the user and stored in a publication file. All frequently used objects are usually placed in this part so that in the future they are not created anew, but retrieved from the layout library. User objects created in one publication can be transferred to any other.
To create publication elements that are repeated on each page, the program provides a so-called background. The background is the page on which each foreground page overlaps. Typically, the background includes page numbers, headers and footers, rulers separating the headers and footers from the page, company names and logos, and watermarks - pale drawings that serve as the background of the document. Switching between foreground and background is done by pressing Ctrl+M. If desired, you can turn off background display for selected pages.
Like all programs in the Microsoft Office suite, Publisher is closely linked to the capabilities of the WEB. The program has all the tools for creating professional WEB pages, organizing them into WEB nodes and placing nodes on the Internet.
It is most convenient to create WEB nodes using the wizard mentioned at the beginning of the article. Publisher contains many layouts for nodes of various types - from strict official to humorous and entertaining. The user selects a color scheme, markup type, enters personal data and sets other node parameters. After creating a node based on the layout, they begin to edit it: enter hyperlinks, add pages, text and graphics. It is noteworthy that to create WEB nodes in Publisher you do not need to know the HTML language and other subtleties of WEB design!
You can give your WEB pages the necessary functionality to provide feedback with people viewing your site on the Internet. To do this, it is possible to add dialog forms to WEB pages. All the basic elements for organizing data entry into Internet pages (dependent and independent buttons, input fields, lists, confirmation and reset buttons) are available in Publisher. To add an interactive input element to a page, you first insert an input form and then include all the desired elements in it. To manipulate form elements and read data, each of them is assigned its own label and value.
Data filled out online on the Internet can be sent to the page owner in several ways. Publisher supports the following transfer methods:
Saving data on WEB server. When choosing this method, you must specify the file in which the data will be stored.
Sending data by email. Here you set the address to which the message will be sent.
Obtaining data using a program provided by your Internet service provider. If your provider supports this feature, it makes sense to use it. To set this method, enter the address of the sending program and the Get and Post fields specified by the supplier.
In order to use the first two methods, it is necessary that the server on which you publish your node supports server Microsoft extensions FrontPage (note that most servers have this property).
You can view your work before publication in an Internet browser by transferring the pages you edited directly from Publisher. After making all the changes, the created node can be placed on the server. The program allows you to publish nodes in WEB folders, use FTP transfer for placement, or save nodes to local disk Intranet. If these options are not available, you can save the site in a regular folder on your personal computer, and start posting on the Internet later.
Publisher has powerful built-in tools for interacting with external data sources and using them to create documents with specific functionality. We are talking about data fusion - a feature that allows you to create envelopes, stickers, addresses and other publications used in mass mailing based on external data.
When creating merge-based documents, you first specify a data source.
Publisher supports working with many external formats: database files Microsoft data Access, Microsoft Works, dBase, Paradox, tables Microsoft Excel, delimited text files. You can also select the Outlook contact list as a data source. If external source no data, you can create it directly in Publisher. The program allows you to create a list of addresses - Publisher's internal database.
After specifying a data source, field codes from this source are inserted into the document. Fields can be, for example, first names, last names, addresses, and so on.
You can apply all text formatting attributes to data source fields in a document. The final step in creating documents is merging and then viewing (or printing) the results.
Documents can include records from a database that have been selected based on certain criteria. To do this, the program provides the use of filters; In addition, records can be sorted in the desired order.
The Russian version of Publisher supports tools for checking the correctness of typed texts and hyphenation for three languages (Russian, English and Ukrainian). As in Microsoft Word, spell checking can be done in background. During background checking, words not included in the dictionary are highlighted with underlining. Unfortunately, grammar checking and thesaurus support are not included in the program.
The program has advanced capabilities for exporting and importing files. Publisher reads files from many popular text formats: ordinary text, RTF, Microsoft Word for Windows and Macintosh, Microsoft Works, Word Perfect (up to version 8.0), Microsoft Excel. You can save your work both in Publisher format (current and previous, 98th version), and in RTF, Word, plain text or PostScript.
To transfer your publication to other persons (for example, to the editor), the program provides packaging of documents. This tool is designed to provide the same publishing experience on all computers. In addition to the documents themselves in *.pub format, the fonts used in the publication and associated graphics are saved during packaging. The packaged package includes an unpacking program, unpacking instructions and the packed files themselves with the *.puz extension.
And in conclusion, let's say a few words about the program interface and the capabilities of the help system.
The program is like everyone else Microsoft applications Office is user-friendly and intuitive clear interface. The execution of basic functions is supported by wizards, which reduces user errors to a minimum.
Access to functions is carried out, as a rule, in three ways: through the menu, toolbars and through “hot keys”. It must be said that the Publisher interface is not as flexible as the interface of applications from the main Office suite. For example, you cannot change the set of buttons on toolbars and menu items. However, this does not create any problems for the user: all interface elements are optimized for maximum convenience.
Publisher Help (in HTML format) provides comprehensive information about all functions and capabilities of the system. It's the best tutorial on how to use the program—you're unlikely to have any questions about Publisher that aren't comprehensively covered in the help.
As we see, in this class of programs - in the class of publishing systems - Microsoft Corporation is on top. Therefore, the interested reader will probably draw further conclusions himself: if you need to choose a professional package for publishing, the number one contender may well be Microsoft Publisher 2000.
Purpose and technology of work in MS Publicher
Microsoft Publisher is a desktop publishing program that contains many different templates. Using this program, you can create newspapers, brochures, business cards, postcards, advertisements, gift certificates, and web pages, for which Publisher includes many ready-made layouts. And once you have the basic skills to get started with a publication and to change it, you can apply those skills to any type of publication.
Create a new post based on a template
Create a web page based on a ready-made layout.
1. Open the program. Start – All Programs –MicrosoftOffice– MicrosoftPublisher.
2. In the menu File select team Create.
3. In the task area New Post - Start with Layout select Web sites and email.
4. View the proposed web page templates in the program window. When you select the type of publication you want to create, Publisher displays thumbnails of the available templates. To develop a web page based on one of the templates, just click on its thumbnail.
5. When choosing Web Site Builder, in the Wizard window you will need to indicate which pages your site needs (subsequently adding pages is done using the command Insert - Page, and deleting using the menu Edit-Delete page) and then press OK. Publisher will open a copy of the template. After the site template opens, you replace the placeholder text and pictures with your content. You can also change the color scheme and font scheme (see figure), remove or add layout elements, and make any other changes required to ensure that the Web page accurately reflects the style of your specific organization, type of business, or purpose of the Web site. This can be done by displaying Region tasks using the menu View. Select the desired task pane by clicking on small arrow at the top.
6. In the menu File select item Save.
7. In the field Folder Select the folder where you want to save the new website.
8. In the field File name enter a file name (preferably index).
10. After work on your website is completed in the menu File select a team Save as web page. The message will appear on the screen Exporting to format in progressHTML and a file will be created in the folder you specified index. html(the first page of your site), as well as the folder index. files, in which all other pages and all the graphics of your site will be located.
Work with text
The text does not simply fill all the space between the fields and flow from one page to another, as it does in text editors. Instead, the text is placed in a container called Text field, and you structure your posts by placing text boxes on the pages.
You can place a text box where you want on the page, make it the size you want, split it into columns, and combine one text box with another so that text flows between fields even if the text boxes are on different pages.
Even if your publication is based on one of the templates in Publisher, you may need to add an entirely new block of text.
Adding new text is done in two steps:
1. Create a new text field to serve as a container for the text.
2. Enter the required text.
When creating a text field, don't worry about its exact location and dimensions. At any time, the text field can be moved to any location on the page (or off it), and the size of the text field can be changed.
The table below shows three simple ways to change a text field once it's created on a page.
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Target |
Initial action |
Follow up |
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Moving a text block |
Place the pointer on the border of the text field. |
When the pointer changes to a cross-shaped arrow, click and drag the field. |
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Resizing a text field |
Click the text box and position the pointer over one of the round handles. |
When the pointer changes to a double-headed arrow, click and drag the border of the field. |
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Rotate a text field |
Click the text box and position the pointer over the green rotation handle. |
When the pointer changes to a circle, click the mouse button and drag the marker in the desired rotation direction. |
When you resize a text field, some of the text may not fit in the resized field. To ensure that text remains visible when you resize text fields in your publication, turn on Publisher to automatically resize text by selecting on the menu Format points Auto text selection And Width .
Click the button Text field on the toolbar Objects. (When you open Publisher, the toolbar Objects is positioned vertically along the left side of the Publisher window by default.)
1. Create a rectangle on the page by dragging the mouse.
2. Enter text using the keyboard into the created text field (surrounded by round markers).
If you want to change the appearance of your publication, you have a variety of ways to change the appearance of the text and the fields that contain it.
For example, for change the appearance of selected text can be selected from the menu Format one of the following points.
Font to change the font, size, color, or style.
Paragraph to change the alignment type, indentation, line spacing, and line and page breaks.
List to add bullets and numbering or change their style.
And with the help of the team Text field(on the menu Format) you can change the appearance of the text field:
do visible border around the text field;
change the background color and border;
rotate text field;
change the gap between the text and the borders of the text field.
Graphic objects in the publication
Term drawing used to refer to a variety of graphics formats and graphics sources, including the following graphic elements:
rectangle, circle, arrow, line or autoshape;
separate graphic files in formats such as GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group), BMP (Bitmap), WMF (Windows Metafile Format), TIF (Tagged Image File Format) and PNG (Portable Network Graphics);
collection of pictures;
scanned photographs or images taken with a digital camera.
Replace the placeholder picture by right-clicking it and choosing Change picture. If in context menu missing command Change picture, then the picture is part of a group (like the one shown above). Click the picture a second time - gray circles should appear around the perimeter of the picture, then click the picture again right click mice.
Adding a new drawing to a publication:
In both cases, the first step is to select the source of the new drawing.
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Type of selected pattern |
Following actions |
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Collection of pictures |
The task pane will open Collection of pictures, where you can find a picture, photograph, clip or audio fragment to insert. |
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From file |
A dialog box will open Add a picture, in which you can select the desired graphic file. |
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From a scanner or camera |
If you have a scanner or digital camera with TWAIN or WIA interface connected to your computer, you can add an image directly from the connected device to your publication. |
If the graphic you want is temporarily unavailable or unknown, you can insert a blank frame into your publication. On the menu Insert select item Picture, and then - item Blank picture frame.
Once a picture is framed on the publishing page, you can change its appearance by following the steps in the following table.
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Target |
Actions Performed |
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Add a colored or artistic border |
Click the button Figure format Colors and lines. |
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Adding a colored background |
Click the button Figure format and use the settings on the tab Colors and lines. Note. The colored background will only be visible in designs with transparent areas, otherwise do not paint the entire frame. |
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Recoloring a drawing |
Click the button Figure format and use the settings on the tab Picture. |
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Changing Contrast and Brightness |
Press the Contrast or Brightness buttons: Increase Contrast Decrease contrast Increase brightness Decrease brightness |
Standard text wrapping options:
1. Along the top and bottom edge. Text breaks at the top edge of the picture frame and continues past the bottom edge of the frame
2. Along the contour. The text flows around the outline of the picture rather than around the frame.
3. Around the frame. The text wraps around the frame rather than around the design.
4. Absent. The text is placed as if the picture were missing.
Adding a Link Bar to a Web Page(or site navigation bar)
Select from menu Insert team Panel transitions and select a team Existing. A window will open Layout Libraries. On the bookmark Sections choose Panels navigation and press the button Add an object.
Note that you can add other web elements to the page this way.
To change the properties of the link bar select it with a mouse click and click the button that appears below (see Figure 1)
The Navigation Pane task pane will appear on the screen, where you can set up links to the pages of the website, change their location, and name the website page.
Create a newspaper in Microsoft Publisher
You can't create a newspaper in Microsoft Publisher.
more difficult than Microsoft Office Word or
work in MS PowerPoint. Panels
the controls are similar, but there are some
peculiarities.
Let's open Microsoft Publisher. But we will not use ready-made samples, but will create a clean publication.
Working with the Booklet Wizard
Run Microsoft Publisher: Start – All programs– Microsoft Office - Microsoft Office Publisher .
In the task pane that opens on the left Types of publications click Booklets. Booklet layouts will be presented in the central part of the screen. Choose your favorite layout.
The first time, a dialog box may appear asking you to enter personal information.
If you do not want to enter personal information, close the window by clicking the button Close.
If you want to enter information about yourself, click OK. A dialog box will open Personal data. If you enter them, click Update. Publisher"remembers" you as a user and this data will be automatically used by default for all new publication pages, as well as for your new publications.
In the task pane, you can choose a color and font scheme (or create your own)
Filling out the booklet.
Publisher creates booklet layout using special frames called placeholders. By clicking inside any frame, you can replace the placeholder text and images with your own.
Entering text into existing text frames
Click inside the text frame. All "placeholder" text will be highlighted. After that, start typing. The typed text will automatically replace the layout text.
If you want to change the width or height of any frame, click once on its border. Move the cursor to one of the white markers that will appear around the perimeter of the frame and drag it in the desired direction.
By default, all header and body text font styles in the layout are set. But if you want to change them, you can use the toolbar buttons Formatting:
Once you have completed the first page of the booklet, move on to the second. To do this, click the corresponding page number 2 on the button Navigating through pages(in the status bar at the bottom of the screen).
Combining and separating individual parts of text
If all the text does not fit inside the text frames, it will not appear on the screen. The text is not lost, but is placed in the so-called “overflow area”. When you link text frames, text that does not fit in one frame “flows” into the next. A chain of linked frames represents the text of a single article.
To move text that does not fit in the previous frame, click the overflow frame.
On the toolbar Link frames click Create a link with a label.
To break frames, click the border of the text frame you want to break.
On the toolbar Link frames click the button Disconnect from the next one.
The cursor will change to a jug.
Move the cursor inside another text frame. If placing text in it is possible, the cursor will take the form of a tilted jug.
After that, click once inside the selected text frame, moving the text.
You can insert a text file using the command Text file menu Insert or from the clipboard. If all the text does not fit in the text frame, Publisher will suggest using autoflow. If you answer Yes, the program will automatically place all the text, while creating the necessary connections between the text frames.
Adding new text fields
Automatic hyphenation
By default, the program is set to automatic hyphenation mode.
Click the text box or table frame in which you want to disable/enable automatic hyphenation.
On the menu Service select team Language, then click Hyphenation.
Uncheck/check the box Automatically hyphenate in the article.
Click OK.
Replacing patterns
To replace an image in a booklet, double-click the existing one. Publisher will open the task pane Inserting a picture. You can choose Collection of pictures or Collection of pictures on the Internet, by clicking the corresponding label once. Window Inserting a picture can be called up by selecting from the menu Insert team Drawing and clicking Picture.
In a text field Search text enter keyword to find the image or clip you want. For example, type the word "business". Mode Other options Search can be used to narrow your search to a specific type of photo or clip. To do this in the field Search objects Leave the checkbox for only one file type.
Click the button Find.
In the window results Click once on the image you want to insert. The image in your post will be replaced.
Save the post.
Inserting a drop cap
Sometimes the first letter of text that is highlighted (the drop cap) can help draw attention to the text or help fill out a page that doesn't have much text on it.
Select the paragraph in the text where you want to enter a drop cap.
On the menu Format select team Initial letter.
In the dialog box that opens, select a drop cap style.
Click OK.
Inserting and deleting pages
If you do not have enough pages to post the material, add them.
On the menu Insert select team Page. Set the number of new pages, their location and appearance.
After setting the options, click OK.
By default, a one-sided page is created. To create double-sided pages, from the menu File select team Page settings and in the list that opens, click Brochure. Then click OK.
If the booklet contains pages you do not need, remove them.
Go to the page you want to delete.
On the menu Edit select Delete page.
If you are removing only one page from a duplex, a window will appear. Deleting a page. Select the one you want to delete (for example, Only the page on the right) and click OK.
Repeat steps 1-3 until you remove all unnecessary pages.
If you accidentally deleted desired page, select from the menu Edit team Cancel Delete page to undo the last command.
Save the post.
Creating a newsletter in Microsoft Publisher
Open Microsoft Publisher.
In the task area New publication click Bulletins and then in the central area of the Publisher window, select the layout you like.
For the first time, a dialog box will appear asking you to enter personal information.
In the task area Options in the list that opens, click select the required number of columns on the page: 1 , 2 , 3 or combination.
You can change the default color scheme. To do this, in the task pane, click Color schemes and click the option you like.
To change the font scheme, click in the task tray Font schemes. Select the font you want. If you are not satisfied with any of the proposed options, click Styles and Formatting. In this mode, you can not only import styles from other documents, but also create your own by clicking Create a style and in the dialog box that opens, setting the necessary parameters.
Saving your newsletter
As you complete your newsletter, be sure to save the document at all times.
Publisher creates the layout of your newsletter using special frames called placeholders. By clicking inside any frame, you can replace the placeholder text and images with your own.
Filling out and editing the newsletter layout is done in the same way as a booklet.
Compared to the 2007 version, Publisher 2010 has become much easier to use. In this article we will learn how to create documents and get acquainted with basic working techniques. The article discusses:
- Creating a Blank Document
- Using Templates
- Essential elements
- Printing a document
Creating a Blank Document
After Microsoft discoveries Office Publisher we will see the tab " Create» menu « File».
Figure 1 - document creation
To create a blank presentation, you can select " Blank A4 (book)" or " Blank A4 (landscape)", depending on what you need. Pressing " Additional sizes blank pages ", you will open additional blank templates. Select one of them and click the button Create».
Using Templates
In some cases, ready-made templates can be useful - they have a customized layout, and you can choose the color scheme yourself. Publisher 2010 contains a large number of preset templates. In addition, additional templates can be downloaded from the official website.
To open the template, go to the menu " File" and select " Create" You will see two categories of templates: " Popular" And " Other templates" Popular contains the most used templates.
Figure 2 - template setup
Using color and font schemes, choose the one that suits you best or create your own. All changes will be visible in the preview window. After setting, click on the button Create».
Essential elements
A Publisher 2010 document is built from individual objects. They can be formatted independently of others, rotated, and combined into groups. In this article we will look at the following objects:
- Text block;
- Image;
- Table;
- Autofigure.
And also basic techniques for working with them:
- Grouping;
- Change of position.
Objects
Text block
A text block is required to enter text into a publication. To create a text block, click on the " Draw an inscription"and draw it in the place where it is needed. The text block is ready!
After placing the cursor on the object, new toolbars will appear " Drawing Tools" And " Working with inscriptions" IN " Drawing Tools» you can change the style of the inscription. Working with text is carried out using the toolbar " Working with inscriptions” and is similar to text editing in Microsoft Word.
Image
You can insert an image by clicking on the " Drawing", and selecting it on the drive. Using the " Working with drawings“You can change its shape, color, add shadow or volume.
Table
Working with tables is not much different from working with them in Microsoft Word. Click the button Table"and select the required size:
Figure 3 - inserting a table
The table is ready. Now you can change the style and layout.
Autoshape
Click the "Shape" button and select the required one:
Figure 4 - autoshapes
After selecting, set the cursor to the starting position and stretch the shape as needed. If you try to enter text into a shape, it will become a text box with the same style and layout.
Basic techniques for working with objects
Grouping
Grouping objects allows you to combine several objects into one. Working with a group of objects is no different from working with objects. Grouping is only necessary if you will be working with these objects for a long time; otherwise, it is enough to select the objects and apply formatting to them.
Create a group
Select the objects so that they are completely within the selection frame. While holding down the key CTRL, you can select objects by clicking the mouse. Once the selection is complete, go to the " home" and click on the button 
. Now the objects will be processed as one object.
Group splitting
To split the group into objects, click the button 
. If it is not available, then the selected object is not a group.
Groups of objects can also be grouped. In this case the button first ungroups the group into subgroups.
Change of position
To move objects along the third axis, use the buttons on the main toolbar and. By clicking on the arrow next to it, you can move the object immediately forward or backward.
Printing a document
To print a document, go to the menu " File" and select " Seal", or press the keyboard shortcut " CTRL +P" The print window will open. The preview is already included in the window. You can change the margins and number of copies. After changes, click the "Print" button.
So, you are familiar with the basic techniques Microsoft work Publisher. Working in it is not much different from working in Microsoft Word, so if you are proficient in the first product, then you will very easily master Publisher.