Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Illustrated Introductory

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Chapter 5
Create business Forms
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Objectives

• Business forms
• Define styles
• Apply and modify a style
• Change a format into a style

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Objectives

• Adjust text overflows
• Add Continued on/from notices
• Add drop caps
• Create reversed text

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Business Forms

• Publisher has built in templates for common
  business forms
• Maintain consistent look Style
• Forms for most typical business applications
• Include date, customer info address

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New Business Forms
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Business forms

• Expense report
• Itemize business expenses for reimbursement
• Fax cover
• Cover sheet to send fax
• Inventory list
• Quantities, descriptions, serial number
  warranties
• Invoice
• Itemized list of good or services with request
  for payment
• Purchase order
• Request to buy product from a vendor

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Business forms

• Quote
• Similar to purchase order
• Refund
• Items being returned
• Statement
• Invoice number, amount, payment
• Time Billing
• Client activity, time spent, total
• Weekly Record
• Weekly in / out schedule, vacation, holiday time

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Customize forms

• Use existing letterhead
• Use with merged data source

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Defining Styles

• A style is a defined set of text and formatting
  attributes
• Specially crafted packages of formatting that
  apply many attributes at once.
• Instead of applying each thing individually, you
  apply the style once and you're done.
• Styles are viewed and applied using the Styles
  and Formatting task pane

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Styles

• Learn what styles are
• use them to format your documents with the
  greatest of ease
• Learn to apply existing and new styles,
• modify them

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Style Types Paragraph styles Character style

• Paragraph styles include not just font type and
  size but also formatting for a whole paragraph's
  text positioning and spacing. A paragraph style
  can be applied to more paragraphs.
• Character style applied at the character levelto
  blocks of words and letters.

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Apply a style

• Click a style in task pane to apply it.
• Can apply it in multiple places at once.
• click the style, such as Heading 1, once to apply
  it in multiple places.
• can also modify that style.

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Styles can be built on styles

• A style can be built on other styles. Compare
  Heading 1 style, with Normal and its own
  customizations.

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Defining Styles (cont.)
Styles and Formatting task pane
Available styles
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Applying and Modifying a Style

• To apply a style
• Select the text you want to format
• Click the style
• in the Style list, or the
• Styles and Formatting task pane

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Applying and Modifying a Style (cont.)

• To modify a style
• Position the pointer over the style you want to
  modify (in the Pick formatting to apply list in
  the Styles and Formatting task pane)
• Click the styles list arrow
• Click Modify

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Apply and Modifying a Style (cont.)
Styles and Formatting task pane
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Changing a Format into a Style

• Create a style by example a style created when
  you dont know all of the attributes
• Select the text whose formatting you want to use
• Type a name in the Style text box
• Press Enter

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Changing a Format into a Style (cont.)
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Adding Drop Caps

• A drop cap is a formatting attribute that
  enlarges the first character in a story or
  paragraph
• Click the paragraph where you want the drop cap
• Click Format on the menu bar, then click Drop Cap
• Click the Custom Drop Cap tab
• Select style, then click OK

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Drop cap

• Use a drop cap to elegantly emphasize the first
  letter on the page.

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Adding Drop Caps (cont.)
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Tab Settings

• The tab button on the keyboard creates a tab
  character (?), which pushes text to the closest
  tab stop to its right.
• Default tabs at every half-inch (0.5) left tabs
• When your rulers are turned on (View-gtRulers),
  able to see where the default tabs are set on
  your ruler, appear as tick marks at regular
  intervals on horizontal ruler.
• Use format tab settings

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Tabs Window

• To set a tab, in the TabsTo set a tab with the
  ruler, click the tab stop indicator
• Then click on the horizontal ruler where you want
  to set the tab stop.
• New tab stop will appear on the ruler

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Ruler

• Can quickly set up margins, tab stops, and
  hanging indents the horizontal ruler.
• The horizontal ruler is the bar across the top of
  your document with measurements marked out on it.

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TAB STOPS

• LEFT TAB STOP, Text aligns on the left, and
  flows to the right.
• CENTER TAB STOP, Text aligns in the middle,
  and flows left then right then left then
• RIGHT TAB STOP, Text aligns on the right, and
  flows to the left.
• DECIMAL TAB STOP, Text aligns on the right,
  and flows to the left until the decimal/period.
• BAR TAB STOP, Text does not respond to this
  tab stop, but it does create a vertical line.
• TEXT
• LEFT TAB STOP, WITH DOT LEADER, Text aligns on
  the left, and flows to the right.

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Creating Reversed Text

• Reversed Text is a formatting effect that
  displays light characters against a dark
  background

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Adding BorderArt

• The BorderArt feature lets you create and develop
  decorative borders
• Available by
• Right-clicking a text box, clicking Format Text
  Box, then clicking the BorderArt button, or
• Selecting a text box, clicking Format on the menu
  bar, clicking Format Text Box, then clicking the
  BorderArt button

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Adding BorderArt
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Adding BorderArt (cont.)

• Create custom BorderArt
• Use Clip Gallery images
• Use any art files

Creates custom BorderArt
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Summary

• Define styles
• Apply and modify a style
• Change a format into a style
• Create columns

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Summary

• Adjust text overflows
• Add Continued on/from notices
• Add drop caps
• Create reversed text