How to use Publisher 2000

How to Use Microsoft Publisher 2000 visually steps you through everything you need to know in order to quickly create a desired publication. Since Microsoft Publisher comes with hundreds of built-in templates, the focus of this book is not on specific types of projects, but on basic product features and general desktop publishing and design techniques that help you use and customize templates for a variety of different types of publications. Topics include page design, working with text and type, pictures, backgrounds and color, publishing on paper, and publishing online.

• Full-color, two-page spreads explain how to use Microsoft Publisher 2000 to create desktop and Web publishing documents
• How to Use's award-winning, step-by-step approach lets you master Publisher in no time

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Chapter 1 - Getting Started
  
  • How to Install Publisher
    
  • How to Start Publisher
    
  • How to Choose a Publication Wizard
    
  • How to Create a Personal Information Set
    
  • How to Work with the Publication Wizard
    
  • How to Choose a Design Set
    
  • How to Use a Blank Publication Design
    
  • How to Create a Publication from Scratch
    
  • How to Navigate Through a Publication
    
  • How to Add and Remove Pages
    
  • How to Use the Standard Toolbar
    
  • How to Use the Objects Toolbar
    
  • How to Use Layout Guides
    
  • How to Use Ruler Guides
    
  • How to Change the View
    
  • How to Use the Office Assistant
    
  • How to Use Contents, Answer Wizard, and Index
    
  • How to Get Help from Microsoft
    
  • How to Save and Retrieve Publications
    
  • How to Set Options for Publisher
    
  
  
• Chapter 2 - Working with Text
  
  • How to Replace Sample Text
    
  • How to Create a Text Frame
    
  • How to Resize and Move Text Frames
    
  • How to Format Text Appearance
    
  • How to Create Special Text Effects
    
  • How to Format Text Frames
    
  • How to Copy Formatting Quickly
    
  • How to Create Lists
    
  • How to Create Columns in Text Frames
    
  • How to Work with Overflow Text
    
  • How to Create Continued Notices
    
  • How to Create a Style
    
  • How to Import Styles from Publications
    
  • How to Import Styles from Word Processors
    
  
  
• Chapter 3 - Working with Graphics
  
  • How to Insert Standard Shapes
    
  • How to Insert Custom Shapes
    
  • How to Move, Resize, and Crop Shapes
    
  • How to Add Color and Texture to Shapes
    
  • How to Layer Shapes
    
  • How to Put Text on Shapes
    
  • How to Group and Ungroup Objects
    
  • How to Flip and Rotate Objects
    
  • How to Insert Clip Art
    
  • How to Insert Pictures
    
  • How to Create Picture Captions
    
  • How to Insert WordArt
    
  • How to Format WordArt
    
  • How to Use Microsoft Draw
    
  • How to Create Borders and Shadows
    
  • How to Align Objects
    
  • How to Use the Snap To Feature
    
  • How to Wrap Text Around Graphics
    
  • How to Move, Resize, and Crop Graphic Frames
    
  • Project 1: A Sales Brochure
    
  
  
• Chapter 4 - Adding Special Elements
  
  • How to Add a Table
    
  • How to Format a Table
    
  • How to Use the Design Gallery
    
  • How to Create Your Own Design Gallery
    
  • How to Create Background Elements
    
  • How to Insert Elements from Documents
    
  • How to Use Mail Merge
    
  
  
• Chapter 5 - Tweaking Your Publication
  
  • How to Tweak Margins
    
  • How to Spell Check Your Publication
    
  • How to Check the Design
    
  • How to Copyfit Your Text
    
  • How to Control Tracking, Kerning, and Leading
    
  • How to Perfect Hyphenation
    
  • How to Work with Bindings
    
  • How to Work with Crop and Registration Marks
    
  • Project 2: A Flyer from Scratch
    
  
  
• Chapter 6 - Creating a Web Publication
  
  • How to Set Up a Web Publication
    
  • How to Add Pages to a Web Publication
    
  • How to Add Sounds and Animation to Web Pages
    
  • How to Create Navigation Bars
    
  • How to Add Hyperlinks
    
  • How to Add Hot Spots
    
  • How to Check the Web Design
    
  • How to Preview Your Web Publication
    
  • How to Convert Publications to Web Pages
    
  • How to Publish Your Publication to the Web
    
  
  
• Chapter 7 - Creating Specialty Publications
  
  • How to Use Special Paper
    
  • How to Create Signs
    
  • How to Create Greeting Cards
    
  • How to Create Business Forms
    
  • How to Create a Banner
    
  • How to Create Calendars
    
  • How to Create Ads
    
  • How to Create an Award Certificate
    
  • How to Create a Gift Certificate
    
  • How to Create a Program
    
  • How to Build an Airplane
    
  • How to Create Origami
    
  
  
• Chapter 8 - Printing Your Publication
  
  • How to Print Your Publication
    
  • How to Print Special Publications
    
  • How to Use an Outside Printing Service
    
  • Project 3: A Web Site
    
  
  
• Glossary
  
• Index