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
  • Hour 24. Adding Art to Your Publications
    • Your Publication's Art
    • Extra Shapes
    • Designing with the Design Gallery
    • Getting Help with the Design Checker
    • Putting Borders Around Your Publications
    • Summary
    • Q&A
  • 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

Designing with the Design Gallery

Publisher includes a design feature called the Design Gallery. The Design Gallery acts as a repository of predesigned elements that you can place in your publications. For example, you might need a special banner to spruce up a newsletter's featured column. Although you can design your own eye-catching banner, why not check the Design Gallery to see whether you like an example that's already there?

One of the most beneficial features of the Design Gallery is that you can store additional design elements in the Design Gallery collection. Therefore, you can create headline banners for each division's newsletter within your company and store each of those banners in the Design Gallery. When the time comes to begin work on the next issue for a particular division, you can grab the banner that you created before and re-use the banner to maintain consistency across your newsletter issues.

To Do: Explore the Design Gallery

You can explore the Design Gallery contents by following these steps:

1. Click the Design Gallery Object button on the toolbox. The Design Gallery Object button is the button at the bottom of your toolbox. The Design Gallery window opens as shown in Figure 24.4.
   

   Figure 24.4 The Design Gallery contains graphic elements you can include in your publication.

   Like the Clip Gallery, the Design Gallery is organized in categories listed down the left edge of the Design Gallery window. (When you add your own items to the Design Gallery, you can create new categories that will appear on the tabbed page labeled My Objects.) Each category has its own design.
2. Click on different Design Gallery categories to see the designs available in them.
3. Once you locate the picture that represents the Design Gallery item you want to insert, double-click the item to insert it into your publication. Publisher places the item on the Publisher editing area and closes the Design Gallery window. You can move, resize, and edit the item as if you had designed and drawn the item yourself from the shape and text tools on the toolbox.

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