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

Getting Help with the Design Checker

Publisher includes a special design tool called the Design Checker that you use after you create your publication. The Design Checker analyzes your publication and offers suggestions on how to improve it. When you select Tools, Design Checker, Publisher opens the Design Checker task pane. To learn what kinds of design elements that Design Checker analyzes, click the Design Checker Options link at the bottom of the task pane and then click the Checks tab to select from the kinds of publication elements you want the Design Checker to critique. You can uncheck one or more of the options if you want to limit the Design Checker to just those items you've selected. By default, Publisher checks for any and all possible problems with your publication, such as text that flows into an overflow area which you have not properly linked.

When you start the Design Checker by clicking the Design Checker button on your toolbox, the Design Checker analyzes your publication and searches for the problems listed within the Options dialog box (shown in Figure 24.5).

Figure 24.5 The Design Checker analyzes your publication for common design problems.

Use Design Checker to look over your publication after you've completed the initial design, added your text, and placed your figures. The Design Checker acts like a last-minute proofreader that finds mistakes that are easy to overlook. For example, the Design Checker can locate text that will not fit within its text box but continues into a special overflow area, meaning that a text box is not large enough to hold all the text that's there.

The Design Checker does not leave you hanging once it finds a problem. Point to any problem shown in the Design Checker task pane and a down arrow appears to the right of that problem. The Explain option gives you detailed instructions on how you might go about correcting the problem that Publisher's Design Checker just located.

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