Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office 2003 in 24 Hours

By Greg Perry

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • We Want to Hear from You!
  • Introduction
  • Who Should Read This Book?
  • What This Book Does for You
  • Can This Book Really Teach Office 2003 in 24 Hours?
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Part I. Working with Office 2003
  • Hour 1. Getting Acquainted with Office 2003
  • Part II. Processing with Word 2003
  • Hour 2. Welcome to Word 2003
  • Hour 3. Formatting with Word 2003
  • Hour 4. Managing Documents and Customizing Word 2003
  • Hour 5. Advanced Word 2003
  • Part III. Computing with Excel 2003
  • Hour 6. Understanding Excel 2003 Workbooks
  • Hour 7. Restructuring and Editing Excel 2003 Worksheets
  • Hour 8. Using Excel 2003
  • Hour 9. Formatting Worksheets to Look Great
  • Hour 10. Charting with Excel 2003
  • Part IV. Presenting with Flair
  • Hour 11. PowerPoint 2003 Presentations
  • Hour 12. Editing and Arranging Your Presentations
  • Hour 13. PowerPoint 2003 Advanced Features
  • Hour 14. Animating Your Presentations
  • Part V. Organizing with Outlook 2003
  • Hour 15. Communicating with Outlook 2003
  • Hour 16. Planning and Scheduling with Outlook 2003
  • Part VI. Tracking with Access 2003
  • Hour 17. Access 2003 Basics
  • Hour 18. Entering and Displaying Access 2003 Data
  • Hour 19. Retrieving Your Data
  • Hour 20. Reporting with Access 2003
  • Part VII. Combining Office 2003 and the Internet
  • Hour 21. Office 2003 and the Internet
  • Hour 22. Creating Web Content with Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint
  • Part VIII. Publishing Eye-Catching Documents
  • Hour 23. Publishing with Flair Using Publisher 2003
    • All Kinds of Publications
    • Why Publisher and Not Just Word?
    • Getting Acquainted with Publisher
    • To Do: Create Your First Publication
    • Microsoft Gives Some Online Training
    • Filling in the Details
    • Adding Text
    • Importing Text into Your Documents
    • Using Text Boxes
    • Summary
    • Q&A
  • Hour 24. Adding Art to Your Publications
  • Part IX. Appendixes
  • Appendix B. Business Contact Manager and Office Extras
  • Part X. Bonus Hours
  • Hour 25. Using FrontPage 2003 for Web Page Design and Creation
  • Hour 26. Managing Your Web with FrontPage

Getting Acquainted with Publisher

Figure 23.3 Publisher makes it clear where you begin when you want to create a publication.

A design set is a collection of publications that all have a similar look. For example, a restaurant might create a main menu and daily special menus that differ in content and form but that must share a similar look as their primary menu. A catalog company might want a design that that keeps consistency in its catalogs, advertisements, and business cards. A design set helps ensure that different kinds of publications share a similar overall look.

The blank publications provide page layouts for all the various kinds of publications that Publisher works with. Publisher does not, however, fill those pages with a color scheme or suggest where a picture or graphic design element such as a border should go. Therefore, if you want to design a business card from scratch but do not want to worry with specifying the size of a routine business card, you click Blank Publications and select the Business Card entry to create the layout for a business card without any of the elements that Publisher would normally suggest.

You'll notice that Publisher's task pane appears on the left side of the editing window. The task pane normally appears on the right side of the screen in Excel and the other Office products.

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