Introduction to Microsoft Publisher

Class Description
This is an introduction to Microsoft Publisher, with a focus on choosing a template and modifying it to meet your needs.

Class Length
One and one‐half (1½) hours

Introduction
Microsoft Publisher is an entry‐level desktop publishing program (the big two used by professional graphic artists are
Adobe’s InDesign and Quark’s QuarkXPress) targeted towards small businesses and organizations lacking a professional
page designer. It can produce brochures, newsletters, menus, postcards, and more and prepare these documents for
self‐printing or sending to a commercial printer.

Although much of what Microsoft Publisher does can be done in Microsoft Word, it has more emphasis on page layout
and page design whereas Microsoft Word has more emphasis on text composition and proofing.

Knowledge of Microsoft Word is a great benefit to learning Microsoft Publisher.

Objectives
 Learn how to create a new document from a template
 Become familiar with the various ribbons
 Learn how to change Color Schemes and Font Schemes
 Learn how to format text
 Learn how to change a picture
 Learn how to use Master Pages
 Learn how to create a publication from a blank page
 Understand how to insert various types of objects into a publication

This manual is a handout for you to keep. Please feel free to use it
for taking notes.

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Creating Your First Publisher Document
By default, Microsoft
Publisher opens to the
New template gallery. If
you are connected to the
Internet, Microsoft
Publisher will, by default,
open to the New
template gallery with the
‘Featured’ templates dis‐
played. Unless you see
something that ‘jumps
out’ at you, it is best to
use the search function.
You can click on any of
the ‘Suggested searches’
listed beneath the search window, or type directly into the search box (just above the ‘Suggested searches’) words related to
the kind of publication you want to create. Although you can create something ‘from scratch’, a template can not only save a
great deal of time, it will usually have been designed by a professional to give a professional appearance.

Once you have begun a

search, whether by
clicking on a category or
by entering text, a ‘Home’
button will appear. Use
this to return to the New
template gallery. A list of
Categories will appear at
the far right of the win‐
dow. Categories can be
added (to narrow your
search) and removed (to
broaden your search)
with a single mouse click
(toggle on and off). They
can also be removed by
clicking on the × which appears to the right of a selected category when you hover over the category with the mouse. Search
terms can be added to or removed from the search window. Note: there are two scroll bars on the right side of the screen,
the far‐right bar scrolls the Categories, the bar to its left scrolls the Templates.

At the bottom of the search results, below the

thumbnails of Microsoft Publisher Templates, may be
‘Search results from your other Office applications’.
Don’t overlook these: there might be a better
application for what you are trying to create.

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Clicking on a large icon will open a preview with additional
information, accompanied by direction arrows on either side of
the preview. The arrows can be clicked to move through the
selections of the previous screen (which may remain partially
visible beneath the preview).

The preview window can be closed by clicking the × in the upper‐

right corner, returning you to the search results. To the right of
the template’s name is the ‘pushpin’ icon used in Windows’s
‘Jump Lists’ to ‘pin’ and ‘unpin’: a single mouse click on the icon
toggles between ‘unpinned’ (greyed‐out and aligned horizontally)
and ‘pinned’ (darkened and aligned vertically).

Once you have found a template you like, simply click on the
‘Create’ button beneath the description. In a few seconds, the template will appear on your screen.

For now, let’s return to

the New Template
Gallery (close the
preview and click on the
‘Home’ button).

Beneath the ‘Suggested

searches’ are the labels
‘Featured’ and ‘Built‐In’.
Click on the Built‐In link.

If you are not connected

to the Internet, you will
see this screen as the
starting point for
Microsoft Publisher, but
with icons for blank 8½″
× 11″ sheets in portrait
and landscape
orientations, plus one
for ‘More paper sizes’
preceding the icon for
‘Advertisements’ and
the Search window
greyed‐out.

When you click on an

icon for one of the
categories, icons,
grouped into categories
of ‘Installed Templates’,
‘More installed
templates’ (optional),
‘Blank sizes’, and
‘Manufacturers’, will
appear. The first two
groups may have sub‐
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categories; the last group has labels. A vertical scroll bar (right of the icons, but left of the far‐right area) will be present,
if necessary. The ‘Search for online templates’ and the ‘Suggested searches’ will be removed. The first template in the
list will be selected and displayed in the far‐right area, along with the options available for that template. A left‐click on
any of the icons will change the template displayed in the far‐right area or, if it is a sub‐category, open to a new set of
template icons.

Options which can

usually be set before
creating a new
publication from the
template are ‘Color
scheme’ (drop‐down
menu) and ‘Font
scheme’ (drop‐down
menu) — these can be
changed after the
publication has been
created. When you
change either of these,
the colors and the fonts
change in the thumbnail in the far‐right area, the icons displayed in the main area, and selections are ‘remembered’ for
the next time. Additional options may be available: many templates have a ‘Page size’ orientation for Portrait and
Landscape; Calendars have ‘Timeframe’ options (‘One month per page’ or ‘One year per page’; and ‘Set Calendar
Dates…’ which sets the start and end dates). When finished selecting options, click the ‘Create’ button.

At right is the Mobile

Calendar template with a
Color scheme of ‘Sunrise’ and
a Font scheme of ‘Georgia
Bold / Georgia’. Initially, the
HOME ribbon is selected. Like
other Microsoft Office
applications, there is a set of
standard ribbons as well as
contextual ribbons which
appear as needed. Thumb‐
nails of pages appear in the
left area and functions as in
Microsoft PowerPoint: one or
more pages can be selected
(use the F or G keys in con‐
junction with the mouse);
selected page(s) can be
deleted, reordered by
dragging and dropping, new
pages can be added, existing
pages can be duplicated (right‐click on the thumbnail).

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The Ribbons
Like the ribbons in other Microsoft Office applications, Microsoft Publisher has ribbons which are always present (HOME,
INSERT, PAGE DESIGN, MAILINGS, REVIEW, and VIEW) as well as ribbons which only appear when needed (TABLE TOOLS –
DESIGN, TABLE TOOLS – LAYOUT, DRAWING TOOLS, PICTURE TOOLS, TEXT BOX TOOLS, etc.). The ribbons are divided into groups,
some of which have a small icon in the lower‐right corner: which, when clicked, will open a dialog box (hovering over
the icon with a mouse will produce a pop‐up which describes what the dialog box does, but unlike other Microsoft Office
applications, the pop‐up does not display keyboard shortcuts.)

HOME Ribbon

For those familiar with Microsoft Word, there is nothing unusual in this ribbon.

The Clipboard, Font, Paragraph (left side), and Editing (right side) groups of this ribbon are nearly the same as in the
HOME ribbon of Microsoft Word. The Styles group is much smaller. The Arrange group is nearly the same as found in
Microsoft Word’s PICTURE TOOLS or DRAWING TOOLS ribbons, with the exception that Microsoft Publisher’s Arrange group
does not have a Position icon and has a separate Ungroup icon rather than placing that function with the Group icon.
Although the Objects group has no comparable group in any of Microsoft Word’s ribbons, its four icons are familiar.

INSERT Ribbon

Microsoft Publisher’s INSERT ribbon is roughly similar to the ribbon of the same name in Microsoft Word.

The Pages group has a Page icon for inserting new pages and a Catalog Pages for pulling data from an external source
into a publication. The Tables and Illustrations groups (left side) and the Text, Links, and Header & Footer groups (right
side) are nearly the same as in Microsoft Word. It is the Building Blocks group which is different: the Page Parts icon is
used for adding Headings, Pull Quotes, Reply Forms, Sidebars, Stories (headlines and text), and Tables of Contents;
Calendars is used to add a full month (current month, next month, or select a particular month) in a table in a wide
range of styles; Borders & Accents is for adding lines, bars, boxes, frames, and more in a wide range of patterns;
Advertisements is for adding a wide variety of advertising layouts, attention getters, and coupons.

PAGE DESIGN Ribbon

The PAGE DESIGN ribbon in Microsoft Publisher is similar to the DESIGN ribbon in Microsoft Word, but with a great deal
more emphasis on color, with some elements found in Microsoft Word’s PAGE LAYOUT and VIEW ribbons, and some items
unique to Microsoft Publisher. You may find that a few quick selections from this ribbon will be all that is needed to
make the result of a template ready for printing.

The Templates group is for changing templates and for selecting options in a template (when available; things like
number of columns in a newsletter). The Page Setup group’s icons are all found in Microsoft Word’s Page Setup group of
the PAGE LAYOUT ribbon and function the same. The Layout group has the Guides icon which can be used to add non‐
printing lines to each page which can help you position elements on the page; the two Align To options cause objects to
‘snap to’ (be attracted to and jump into place) the lines created by the Guides icon (‘Guides’) and to each other
(‘Objects’).

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The Pages group has icons to Delete, Move, and Rename pages. The vast majority of the ribbon is given over to the
Schemes group which is almost all Color Schemes. This functions as does the Styles selector on Microsoft Word’s HOME
ribbon: an up arrow, a down arrow, and a drop‐down menu arrow in a tight vertical stack, but comparable to the Colors
icon in Microsoft Word’s Document Formatting group of the Design ribbon. Appropriately, the icon to the right of the
Colors icon in both applications is the Font icon which controls the fonts used in each of the Styles used in a document.
The last group, Page Background, has icons to make a selected picture the background for the entire page (Apply
Image), to set background colors for pages (Background), and Master Pages — a powerful tool for ensuring consistency
across multiple pages of a Microsoft Publisher publication (we will look at this tool later).

MAILINGS Ribbon

This ribbon is used for merging Microsoft Publisher publications into a mail or e‐mail list. We won’t be using this Ribbon.

REVIEW Ribbon

The two groups in this very short ribbon, Proofing and Language, is nearly the same as the leftmost groups of the same
name in Microsoft Word’s REVIEW ribbon. It is self‐explanatory.

VIEW Ribbon

This ribbon is similar to the ribbon of the same name in Microsoft Word, but with some important differences, especially
on the left side.

The groups on the right, Window, Zoom, and Show, are nearly the same as in Microsoft Word’s VIEW ribbon, although
there are several more items in the Show group in Microsoft Publisher. Though the Views group is the leftmost group in
the VIEW ribbon in both Microsoft Word and Microsoft Publisher, they function very differently. Here, there are two
icons: Normal, for working on pages of a publication, and Master Page for accessing the same function as is available in
the PAGE DESIGN ribbon.

The Layout group has two icons: Single Page will be used most often, but switching to Two‐Page Spread is done when
working on things like the center pages of a newsletter.

PICTURE TOOLS – FORMAT Ribbon

When a picture is selected, this ribbon is present. Very similar to Microsoft Word’s ribbon of the same name, it adds the
Insert and Swap groups; replaces the Position icon with an Arrange Thumbnails icon, takes the Ungroup function out of
the Group icon’s functions (giving it a separate icon), and moves the Crop function out of the Size group (giving it its own
group with a few additional functions).

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 TABLE TOOLS – DESIGN Ribbon (contextual)

TABLE TOOLS – LAYOUT Ribbon (contextual)

When the Insertion Point is in a table, both these ribbons will be present. With the exception of the Typography group in
the DESIGN ribbon, there is nothing here which will be unfamiliar to a Microsoft Word user; the differences in the
ribbons’ layout is minimal.
DRAWING TOOLS – FORMAT Ribbon

When a drawing object is selected, this ribbon will be present. Except for the omission of a Position icon in the Arrange
group, this is essentially the same as the ribbon of the same name in Microsoft Word.
TEXT BOX TOOLS – FORMAT Ribbon

Microsoft Word has no TEXT BOX TOOLS – FORMAT ribbon. When it has a Text Box selected, it uses the DRAWING TOOLS –
FORMAT ribbon. Despite this difference, the items in this ribbon will not be strange to someone familiar with Microsoft
Word. The biggest difference is the duplication of the Font group from the HOME ribbon.

Changing Schemes
From the PAGE DESIGN ribbon,
you can look at different color
schemes. You can use the up
arrow and down arrow to
scroll through multiple lines of
color schemes, or click the
drop‐down arrow to see all
the schemes at once (shown
here). There are two
advantages to looking at —
and potentially changing —
color schemes from here: (1) Tip: If you change the size
as you mouse over a color of your Zoom (in the
scheme, the changes will be bottom-right corner of the
shown (no need to keep Publisher window) you can
changing selections), and see potential changes made
(2) the page is a lot easier to by a different scheme for
see than the thumbnail in the the entire page.
Template pages.
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The Font Scheme icon is a
drop‐down menu (note: there
is a scroll bar) and offers more
choices than are available
from the Template pages. This
has the same advantages as
the color scheme selector.

Formatting Text
You can, of course, use the
Font and Paragraph groups of
the HOME ribbon to format
text. Here, one of the dates
has had a change of font face,
font size, color, and alignment.
But it has only changed for the
one date in April.

You could use the Format

Painter (Clipboard group) to
copy the formatting to the
other table cells. You could
even highlight all the cells in
the table and make
formatting changes to the
entire month, but you would still need to use the Format Painter to copy the
formatting to other pages (months, in the case of a calendar like this). If the
calendar were for a full year (or more), that could take some time. Fortunately,
there is an easier way: Styles (yep, the same feature as is recommended in
word processing!).

Click on the Styles icon in the STYLES group (the only icon) to open a drop‐down
menu. We can see the second item (‘AccentText6’) is highlighted. This
indicates this is the Style being used for the numbers
representing dates in the table. A right‐click on the
Style’s name opens a context menu which includes
‘Modify’ (the second item) which can be used to edit
all aspects of the style. But since the one cell has
already been modified, we can use the first item in
the menu, ‘Update to match selection’. As soon as we click on it, the Style will be updated and
applied to all the numbers in the cells of the tables.

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Rather than a lot of tedious
copying and applying of a
format, the new formatting is
now applied to the current
page …

… and all other pages.

Changing a Picture and Ensuring Consistency Across Pages

There are two ways to change a picture. Both require selecting the picture as the first step. One
way is to select (if not already selected) the PICTURE TOOLS – FORMAT ribbon, look in the Adjust
group, and click on the Change Picture icon. This opens a two‐item menu. Click on the ‘Change
Picture’ option to start the process. The other way to change a picture is to right‐click on the
picture to open a context menu, click on ‘Change Picture’ (which opens a sub‐menu) and then
click on the next ‘Change
Picture’.

Regardless of the method used,

Microsoft Publisher will open a
dialog box with two choices:

The first choice is used when you know where the picture is stored on your computer or network; the second is to use
Microsoft’s own Bing search to find an image.

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When you take the first choice, a standard Windows
Explorer (‘File Explorer’ in Windows 8.x) dialog box will
open:

Navigate to the file and either double‐click the file or

click to select and then click the ‘Insert’ button.

The picture has been changed

and the old picture has been
moved to the ‘Scratch Area’
on the right. If you are certain
you won’t need it, click on it
to select, then push the V
key.
There is a bit of a problem,
however. Compare the
appearance of the changed
picture on the page where
you were working, with its
appearance on another page:

Obviously, they are not the

same.

There are two main ways to

fix this. Both require deleting
the images on all pages except
one. The next step is to make
all the changes you want on
the remaining picture.

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Here, that has been done and
we are ready to start working
on the picture, but first …

Microsoft Publisher’s
templates tend to use a lot of
grouping of objects. This is
useful for keeping a group
together when moving it, but
often gets in the way of
editing items. Because we
want to resize the picture, we
need to Ungroup these
objects. So, with the Tip: In the Show group
grouped objects selected, of the View ribbon, be
we go to the PICTURE sure to have ‘Boundaries’
TOOLS – FORMAT ribbon checked. It helps you see
and in the Arrange group when multiple objects
use the Ungroup icon to have been grouped and
even makes empty text
separate these into
boxes — which would
separate objects.
otherwise be invisible —
visible.

Here, the picture has been

resized, both the picture and
the text box beneath it have
been selected (click on one
object to select, then press
F
and hold the key, then click
on the second object — there
should be a small + next to
the mouse pointer) and we
are ready to group the objects
together. In the Arrange
group of the PICTURE TOOLS –
FORMAT ribbon we click on the
Group icon to do this.

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Once the objects have been
regrouped, we can copy it as a
single item …

… move to a different page …

… and then paste. Microsoft

Publisher ‘remembers’ the
location from which the copy
was made and pastes into the
same location on the page.

This process requires going to

each and every page and doing
a paste. If there are a few
pages, this is easy enough. But
if there are many pages, this
can be tedious, so here is
another way of ensuring
consistency across pages.

Instead of doing a copy of the regrouped object, go to the PAGE DESIGN ribbon and at the far right, in the Page Background
group, click on Master Pages. This opens a drop‐down menu with a choice of ‘Send to Master Page’. Select this option.

We should see this message.

Click the OK button.

The grouped object sent to the

Master Page will now appear
on all pages of the publication
(see next page).

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The picture and text box
combination has been moved
to the Master Page. Note the
thumbnails: the picture and
text box combination appears
on each page and has the
same appearance.

Master Pages
When the picture and text box combination was sent to the Master Page, the pop‐up message gave the
FM
keyboard shortcut for editing Master Pages: + . But, if you cannot remember that, simply go to the
PAGE LAYOUT ribbon and in the Page Background group at the far right, click on the Master Page icon to
open the drop‐down menu. The area of the menu above the horizontal line has two items here: ‘Master
Page A (A)’ and ‘None’. These are used to select which Master Page is to be applied to the current page of
the publication. (You can have no more than one Master Page per page of a publication.)
After selecting ‘None’ from
the menu, the current page
(April) has lost the picture and
text box combination in the
lower‐right corner, but it
remains on the other three
pages. The number of items
above the horizontal line will
increase with the number of
Master Pages in a publication.

Beneath the horizontal line

are three items: ‘Send to
Master Page’ which we
already looked at (currently
greyed out because nothing is
selected which could be sent to the Master Page), ‘Edit Master Pages’
and ‘Apply Master Page’. The last item opens a dialog box from which
you can ‘Select a master page:’ (top item in drop‐down menu) and
choose the page(s) to which you want it applied (as long as they are
consecutive). Since we want to edit the only Master Page in this
publication, simply click on ‘Edit Master Pages’.

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There are fewer ribbons when
editing a Master Page: MASTER
PAGE (only present when a
Master Page is being edited)
and most of the always‐present
ribbons (HOME, INSERT, PAGE
DESIGN, REVIEW, and View, but
not MAILINGS). The MASTER PAGE
ribbon has three groups:
Master Page, from which we
can create new Master Pages,
change a Master Page to a Two
Page Master, and choose which
Master Page will be applied to
particular pages (as in the Apply
Master Page dialog box on the previous page); Header & Footer, from which we can add headers, footers, page numbering,
current date, and current time; and the Close, which closes the Master Page editor and returns us to the page editor.

Nearly anything which can be

added to a specific page can
be added to a Master Page.
Here, we have switched to the
Insert ribbon, clicked on
Borders & Accents in the
Building Blocks group, and are
ready to select ‘Stripes’ from
the drop‐down menu.

Once selected, Microsoft

Publisher centers ‘Stripes’ into
the Master Page. But it needs
to be moved …

… and resized to the margin edges (note: the margin guides

get a little bolder and extend to the edge of the ‘paper’
when dragging the shape to the edges of the margin) …

… which partially covers the picture and text box

combination, so we move that upward far enough
to clear the ‘Stripes’ border …

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… which gives us this:

That is enough here, so we

will switch back to the MASTER
PAGE ribbon and click the
Close Master Page icon,
which …

… returns us to the regular

pages.

As you can see, the additions

made on the Master Page
have been applied to all the
pages in the publication.

Any object placed on a Master Page will stay

‘behind’ all objects placed on one of the
pages. Objects on a Master Page cannot be
selected from a normal page. Objects on a
normal page (not on a Master Page) can be
‘Sent Back’ behind other objects on the page,
but not behind objects on its Master Page.

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Creating a Publication From a Blank Page
It is easy to return to the templates from Microsoft Publisher: just click
on the File tab to the left of the HOME ribbon tab (Microsoft calls this
area the ‘Backstage’). Initially, the ‘Info’ area appears. Just move the
mouse down to ‘New’ (the second in the list) and click on it.

We are back to the templates.

We will select the first

template, a blank 8½″ × 11″
sheet in Portrait orientation.
Click on the template icon.
Since there is nothing to
configure, you will be taken
straight to this:

We want to add some blank

pages. There are two ways to
do this: (1) right‐mouse click in
the thumbnail area to open a
context menu and then click on
‘Insert Blank Page’ (this will
only add one page at a time);
and (2) from the INSERT ribbon,
click the Page icon on the far left
Either way, there are now four blank pages.
to open the three item drop‐
This is ideal for a newsletter with a front page,
down menu and click ‘Insert
a two‐page center, and a back page. Except …
Page…’ to open the Insert Page
dialog box. Since three blank
pages are desired, the default ‘1’
has been changed to ‘3’. No
other changes to the options are
needed, so click the ‘OK’ button.

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… Microsoft Publisher is not
yet treating the second and
third pages as a two‐page
center.

Switch to the VIEW ribbon and

in the Layout group, the
Single Page icon will be
highlighted. Point to the Two‐
Page Spread icon and the
pop‐up will give a brief
description which is just what
we want. Click on the Two‐
Page Spread icon.

Voila! The second and third

pages have been combined.

The first thing we want is a

border around the edges, so
let’s go straight to editing a
Master Page:

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Rather than use a border from
the Page Parts, we want a
simple Rounded Rectangle
from the Shapes icon.

The initial box is filled, but

clicking on Shape Fill and
selecting ‘No Fill’ quickly fixes
that.

Next, let’s make the corners more rectangular (reduce the size
of the curve). Click on the small yellow diamond at the edge of
the shape …

… and drag it
upwards.

Tip: Reducing the size of As we drag, dotted lines on each corner

the curve will leave more will move, showing (potential) changes.
space for content. Although We’ll release the left button when satisfied
a rectangle would make the with the shape. (Dragging downwards will
most space, the curve is increase the size of the curve.)
less harsh and rigid looking.

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 We want to change the outline color to orange …

… and make the

outline wider
(heavier).

If the Master Page editor were

closed now, the result would
be this for the center pages —
and that isn’t what we want.

So, instead of closing the Master Page editor, let’s use

the leftmost icon on the MASTER PAGE ribbon: Add
Master Page, which opens this dialog box:

We don’t care what the Page ID will be and don’t need

a Description, but we do need to place a check in the ‘Two‐page master’ checkbox. Once done, we click the OK button.

A new Master Page will be

created which is a two‐page
spread. To save time, we’ll go
back to the first Master Page,
copy the rounded rectangle,
then return to the second
Master Page and do a paste.

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We grab a handle on one side and drag it out to the
margins …

… and repeat on the other side:

We can now close the Master

Page editor to return to the
publication’s pages. We want
to return to the Master Page
icon …

… (making certain we have the

center two‐page spread selected)
and then select the second
Master Page. This will change
this:

… to this:

We are now ready to start

inserting objects into our
pages.

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Inserting Objects
Microsoft Publisher makes it easy to insert a monthly calendar into a publication.
From the INSERT ribbon, in the Building Blocks group, click the Calendars icon:

There are three main sections to this drop‐

down menu: ‘This Month’, ‘Next Month’, and
‘More Calendars’. (If you want the biggest
range of choices, click on ‘More Calendars…’
(see blue box at bottom of this page); it opens
a dialog box with many choices.)

In the ‘This Month’ section, the ‘Boxes – This

Month’ looks suitable. Click on it.

The current month is inserted in the center of the page.

After dragging the table to the top of the page, we’re
ready to insert next month’s calendar:

For a consistent appearance, using the same style,

we’ll select ‘Boxes – Next Month’. It will be inserted
into the center of the page, so it will need to be moved
to produce this:

Clicking on the
Calendar icon and then
‘More Calendars…’
opens this dialog box.
There is a scroll bar to
browse all the available
styles. On the far‐right
side is a month and year
selector so that nearly
any month can be
inserted into your
publication.

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We’ve switched to the center two‐page spread and, in the INSERT ribbon, in the
Building Blocks group, clicked the Building Parts icon to open a drop‐down
menu. The menu is divided into sections: ‘Recently Used’ at the top, followed by
‘Headings’, ‘Pull Quotes’, ‘Sidebars’, and ‘Stories’. At the bottom is ‘More Page
Parts…’. Like the Calendar icon, go straight here for the most choices.

In the ‘Stories’ section, the ‘Portal (Layout 3)’ icon looks appealing. Click on it.

As usual, Microsoft Publisher places the object in the center of the page:

After some moving and

resizing, it looks like this:

Here’s a close‐up of the areas

where text can be added. Just
click in an area and start
typing.

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The next group to the right is the Text group of the INSERT ribbon, we
can Draw a Text Box by clicking on the icon and then dragging and
dropping the area where we want the text box to be located.

Below the text box we want a

picture which has not yet
arrived. This is an ideal place to
use …
… the Picture Placeholder.
Again, the object will be placed
in the center …

… but after some moving and

resizing, the space has been saved.

Next, we’ve added a second text box,

and then clicked inside the first
text box.

We’re ready to enter text.

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 The text has been pasted into
the text box, but we can see
there is more text than can fit
into the box — because there
is an indicator.

Exercise: Title
This is easily fixed. We click on
Details
the indicator and the mouse
will change to this shape:
Text box for comments

We move the mouse pointer

to the second text box and
click inside it.

The excess text will be moved

into the second text box. We
check to see if the overflow
indicator appears on the
second text box — we may
need to overflow text into a
third text box. But here, there
is plenty of space left over.

There is a lot more possible with Microsoft Publisher, but this should get you started.

Questions? Feel free to contact Ross Valentine at rvalentine@[Link] or call the library at 630.232.0780
24 August 2017