Publisher 2000

3 Sessions –
9 Hours of Interactive Training

With LearnKey’s Publisher 2000 course, you’ll learn to create exciting marketing materials and get professional looking results quickly and affordably. Expert Steve Broback demonstrates innovative desktop publishing techniques for creating newsletters, flyers, invitations, greeting cards, web pages and more. With the power of Publisher 2000 and LearnKey’s expert coaching, you’ll gain design expertise and discover an arsenal of print and web publishing solutions.

Benefits

Create and generate professional documents conveniently and efficiently in record time.

Communicate your ideas using Publisher 2000 to complete your own publishing projects.

LearnKey courses let you move along at your own pace and gain new skills in a useful, productive manner.

About The Author

Steve Broback has been teaching and developing computer software courses since 1988 at the University of Washington. He has an impressive history with major software developers such as Aldus. Broback is an author and co-founder of Thunder Lizard Productions, producers of national software conferences.

Session 1

Section A: Introduction
· Desktop Publishing Defined
· Templates
· Work Space & Pages
· Toolbars & Menus

Section B: Working with Frames
· Picture Frame
· Manipulating Frames
· Text Frame
· Zoom
· Inserting Text & Elements
· Grouping Objects

Section C: Publisher Basics
· Personal Information
· Using the Template Wizard
· Color Scheme
· Editing Content & Text
· Logo Wizard
· Type Format

Section D: Customizing a Template
· Editing Text
· Columns
· Fitting Text to Columns
· Save & Remind to Save
· Customize Content
· Overflow Text
· Remove Pages
· Insert Pictures

Section E: Document FoundationBlank Publication
· Master Page
· Ruler Guide
· Layout Guide

Section F: Text Handling
· Manipulating Text
· Hide Guides
· Flowing Text
· Fine Tuning Text
· Insert a Graphic
· Text Wrap
· Column Balance
· Error Correction
· Printing

Session 2

Section A: Automated Text Handling
· Session Overview
· Formatting Issues
· Hidden Characters
· Design Checker
· Search & Replace
· Metacharacters
· Spaces with Characters
· Smart Quotes

Section B: Styles
· Text Styles
· Apply Styles
· Edit Styles
· Create Subheads
· Create Shortcut with Word
· Modify & Update Styles
· Import Styles

Section C: Typographic Controls
· Hyphenation
· Line Breaks
· Line Spacing
· Tracking & Kerning

Section D: Working with Graphics
· Picture Frame
· Insert Picture
· Cropping & Resizing
· Rotate, Position & Scale
· Customize Text Wrap
· Scanning
· Half Tone

Section E: Tables
· Table of Contents
· Tabs
· Table Tool
· Adjusting Tables
· Adding Text
· Formatting Cells

Section F: Headers, Footers & Page Numbering
· Master Page
· Ignore Background
· Electronic White Out

Session 3

Section A: Foundations
· Session Overview
· Options
· Auto Fit
· Save with Backup

Section B: Navigation & Interface
· Page Controls
· Multiple Documents
· Scrolling
· Multiple Pages
· Zoom Controls
· Show Guides

Section C: Tips & Tricks
· Format Printer
· Character Map
· Replace Using the Clipboard
· Line Spacing
· Page & Column Breaks
· Clip Art for the Web

Section D: Creating a Web Site
· New Web page
· Design Gallery
· Layout Page
· Insert Pages
· Prepare to Publish
· Add Manual Links
· Save as a Web Page

Section E: Converting to a Web Site
· Automatic Conversion
· Modify the Web Site
· Manual Conversion

Section F: Mail Merge
· Integrate Files
· Data External Source
· Merge
· Filter & Sort
· Data Internal Source

Section G: Color Publications
· Pantone
· Tint Effects
· Print Spot Color
· Photo Printing

Section H: Special Elements
· Shapes
· WordArt
· Drop Caps