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

To Do: Create Your First Publication

Publisher generates samples so that you then can create almost every publication in Publisher. Publisher's built-in wizard technology handles most needs, and once you start a publication, your job will be to enter the text, import the graphics, and fine-tune the publication to meet your needs.

Get acquainted with Publisher by following these steps to create your first publication:

1. Start Publisher.
2. Click Publications for Print to open the list if it's not already open.

   Note

   If you click the toolbar's New button instead of starting Publisher from scratch or instead of selecting File, New to start a new publication, Publisher does not show the large To get started, select an option in the list notice that appears when you first start Publisher. Instead, Publisher shows the New Publication task pane with a blank publication in the editing area of your screen.

3. Click Newsletters. Publisher displays a list of newsletter design choices in your editing area. More choices appear than will fit inside the editing area, so you can scroll down to see additional newsletter designs. The dialog box's preview area shows what the design will look like once you create the publication.
4. For this example, click to select the Floating Oval Newsletter design. Publisher creates a sample document and places sample text, graphics, and titles on the document. Figure 23.4 shows this newsletter's initial design.
   

   Figure 23.4 Publisher generates an initial design and helps you finish the publication.

5. Click the Zoom control's plus sign inside the magnifying glass to zoom closer into the sample publication to see the details better. The minus sign takes you further out so you can see the overall design once again.

   Note

   At the bottom of the screen is a series of pages with page numbers. Many of your publications will span multiple pages, and you traverse through the pages by clicking on the page number you want to see.

6. You can edit the newsletter's elements directly, but you can also select areas to edit within the Newsletter Options task pane. For example, click Color Schemes to select from a list of color sets for the newsletter's elements.

   Note

   You can change the color scheme for your publication at any time, even after you have added all the other details to your publication. You don't have to stick with any color scheme you select during your publication's design. Experiment and see what looks best.

7. Click different color schemes to see the effect of the color schemes applied to the sample newsletter in the editing area pane. For this example, select the Prairie color scheme to apply it to your publication.
8. Click the task pane's Page Content to see the choice of column offerings. Select the icon that indicates a two-column page. When you move your mouse pointer over the icon, a down arrow appears that gives you the option of applying the column change to the current page or to all pages within your multipage publication. Figure 23.5 shows what the two-column newsletter would look like if you keep the two-column format.
   

   Figure 23.5 Publisher can adjust your newsletter to a different number of columns.

9. You can continue selecting options from the task pane and adjust your publication's details. The publication in the editing area always reflects your latest selections.

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