1. Microsoft Publisher

2. Terminology and Layout
Learning the Basics
Terminology and Layout

3. Ribbon

4. Tabs

5. Groups

6. Commands

7. Dialog Box Launchers

8. How Publisher is Organized
Layout Tools
How Publisher is Organized

9. Layout Tools
RULERS The rulers located on the left and top of the publication help line up text, images, and other objects. When an object is selected, a white space will appear on the rulers to show the object’s location.

10. Layout Tools
PAGE NAVIGATION The page navigation is a pane to the left that displays an image of each page in the publication.
BOUNDARIES
Boundaries are dark blue dashed borders that appear around objects. Viewing object boundaries can be useful to align objects or view text.

11. Layout Tools MARGIN GUIDES Margin guides are blue lines that mark the
edges, or margins, of a printable area; they
are automatically created when page
margins are set.
SCRATCH AREA
The scratch area is the grey area outside
the white page area. It shows objects or
portions of objects located outside page
boundaries; anything in the scratch area
will not print. You can think of it as a
holding space while you decide what to
place and how to place it in your publication.

12. Editing Pages in Page Navigation
By right clicking on the various pages located in the Page Navigation pane, you can do things such as:
Insert a new blank page
Insert a duplicate (copy) of a page
Delete a page
Move a page (reorder pages)
Rename pages (helps with organization)

13. Using the Home Tab
The Home tab will contain many of your basic commands
This includes all commands within the Font and Paragraph groups
You may also insert pictures tables and shapes from the Home tab

14. Using the Insert Tab
There are many cool and useful tools to use under the Insert Tab
In addition to inserting things such as images and shapes, you can also insert additional pages, word art, calendars, tables, etc.
Perhaps the coolest tools available are located within the Illustrations group. This group allows you to insert things such as:

15. Building Blocks Group - Calendars

16. Building Blocks Group – Borders & Accents

17. Building Blocks Group – Page Parts

18. Building Blocks Group – Advertisements

19. Using the Page Design Tab
Just as in Word and PowerPoint, we can use our Page Design tab to edit the background of our Publisher pages.
Additionally, there are several other useful tools within this tab. These tools include:

20. Page Design Tab - Orientation
Depending on what you are
designing, you may need to
change the orientation of your
paper. This means that you are
rotation the way the paper is
positioned.

21. Page Design Tab – Page Size
You may also want to change
the size of the paper so that
it is the correct size for what you’re designing.

22. Page Design Tab – Guides
Page Guides can also be very helpful. They can assist you to ensure that various elements on the page are lined up, space your page elements evenly, or even divide your page into collumns.

23. Format Tab
When working with and inserting various elements onto the page such as shapes, images, textboxes, etc., do not forget to utilize the FORMAT tab!
There are lots of useful tools here and it can really help you make your projects appealing!

24. Arranging and Rearranging
When inserting multiple elements onto a page, you may notice that they begin to overlap one another.

25. Arranging and Rearranging
To rearrange the elements of this page, we would use the “Bring Forward” and “Bring Backwards” commands found in the FORMAT tab.

26. Arranging and Rearranging

27. Using Templates
Rather than designing from scratch, you may also consider using templates within Microsoft Publisher.
Publisher has templates for anything from brochures to party invitations to food menus.

28. Any Questions?