How To Create a Brochure

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How To Create a Brochure

• Planning 10
• Created by Karoline Monkvik

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Presentation Goals

• After completion of this program, you will be
  able to
• Start with a pre-designed Publisher publication
  (Brochure) and adapt it to create your own
  publication.
• Add text to a brochure, revise and reposition the
  text.
• Add a picture to a brochure, change how the
  picture looks, and control how text wraps around
  it.

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Begin with a Brochure Wizard

• When you begin with a Brochure Wizard, you don't
  have to worry about setting up or designing your
  publication. All you have to do is select the
  brochure design that you want and then replace
  the placeholder text and pictures with your own
  text and pictures.

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How To Create with Wizard

• Here is how you create a three-panel or
  four-panel publication from a Brochure Wizard
• 1. Start Publisher. In the New Publication task
  pane, under New from a design, click Publications
  for Print, and then click Brochures.
• 2. In the Preview Gallery on the right, click the
  design that you want.
• 3. In the Brochure Options task pane, for Page
  size, click 3-panel or 4-panel.
• 4. Click a placeholder text block, and then type
  the text that you want.

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How To Create with Wizard continued

• 5. Right-click a placeholder picture, point to
  Change Picture, and then click the type of
  picture that you want to use. Note  If you
  right-click a picture and you don't see Change
  Picture on the menu, click the picture. You
  should see grey handles around the picture.
  Right-click it again and point to Change Picture.
• 6. If you want to change the color scheme of the
  publication to better reflect your company's
  character or to match your company's existing
  color scheme, click Color Schemes in the Brochure
  Options task pane.
• 7. To apply a color scheme, click the scheme that
  you want under Apply a color scheme.
• To create a publication color scheme that exactly
  matches the colors that are used in other company
  materials, click Custom color scheme.

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Independent Elements

• Everything in a Publisher publication, including
  a block of text, is an independent element. You
  can place each element exactly where you want it,
  and you can control its size, shape, and
  appearance.
• It's not so unusual, even in word-processing
  programs, for pictures to act as independent
  elements. What makes Publisher particularly
  flexible is that you have the same control over
  text as you do over pictures.
• Because each of these elements is independent,
  you can treat each one individually. If you
  resize and re-color the line that defines the
  column, for example, you don't affect the
  masthead. Or, if you change the font size and
  color for the brochure title, the other headings
  and body text remain unchanged.

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Adding Text(text box)

• To add a new text box you would
•   Click the Text Box tool on the Objects
  toolbar. (By default, when you open Publisher,
  the Objects toolbar extends vertically along the
  left side of the Publisher window.)
•   Drag to create a rectangle on the page.
•   Type your text in the resulting text box
  (surrounded by round handles).

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Adding Text Tips

• Don't worry about where you place a text box when
  you first create it, or what size it is. You can
  move the text box anywhere you want on (or off)
  the page, and you can change its size at any
  time.
• The table below shows three easy ways to modify a
  text box once it's on the page.

To First Then
Move a text box Position the pointer over the text box boundary. When the cursor becomes a four-headed arrow      , click and drag.
Resize a text box Click the text box and position the pointer over one of the round handles. When the cursor becomes a two-headed arrow       , click and drag.
Rotate a text box Click the text box and position the pointer over the green rotation handle. When the cursor becomes a circle       , click and drag in the direction you want the text to rotate.
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Customizing Text Boxes

• These three text boxes demonstrate how much
  freedom you have to customize the appearance of
  text and text boxes.
• If you want to customize the look of a
  publication, there are all kinds of things you
  can do to change the appearance of text and the
  text box that contains it.
• For example, to change the appearance of a text
  selection, on the Format menu, you can click
• Font to change the font, font size, font color,
  or style.
• Paragraph to change the alignment, indentation,
  line spacing, and line and paragraph breaks.
• Bullets and Numbering to add or change the style
  of bullets and numbers.
• And to change the appearance of a text box, you
  can use the Text Box command (on the Format menu)
  to
• Add a border around the text box.
• Change the background or border color.
• Rotate the text box.
• Change the margin between the text and text box
  boundary.

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Pictures (Frames)

• In the previous slides, you learned that all text
  in Publisher exists within containers called text
  boxes. Likewise, each picture exists within a
  container called a frame. Frames give you the
  same control over pictures that text boxes give
  you with text. You can place a picture anywhere
  on a pageincluding inside a text boxand you can
  change its size and appearance.
• Here you will learn how to add pictures to
  publications, how to move and resize them, how to
  change the way pictures look, and how to control
  the way text wraps around them.

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Pictures (Frames) Continued..

• We're using the term picture inclusively to refer
  to a variety of graphic formats and sources,
  including
• 1. A rectangle, circle, arrow, line, or
  AutoShape.
• 2. An independent graphic file, in a format such
  as Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), Joint
  Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), Bitmap (BMP),
  Windows Metafile Format (WMF), Tagged Image File
  Format (TIF), or Portable Network Graphics (PNG).
• 3. Clip art.
• 4. A scanned photograph or a picture taken with a
  digital camera.

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Adding a Picture

• There are two ways to add a new picture to a
  publication
• 1. Replace a placeholder picture in an existing
  frame, using the Change Picture command.
• 2. Create a new frame with the Picture Frame tool
  , and put a picture in it.
• If you don't know yet exactly which picture you
  want to use, you can add a picture placeholder to
  a publication by inserting an empty picture
  frame. On the Insert menu, point to Picture, and
  then click Empty Picture Frame.

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Move and Resize a Picture
To Do this
Move a picture                                                      Drag it to a new location.
Resize a picture and maintain the original proportions                                                      Press SHIFT, and then drag a corner handle.
Crop a picture to eliminate unwanted portions                                                      Click the Crop tool on the Picture toolbar. Position the tool over a black cropping handle, and then drag.
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Changing a Pictures Appearance
To Do this
Add a colored or artistic border Click the Format Picture tool         and use the Colors and Lines tab.
Add a colored background Click the Format Picture tool and use the Colors and Lines tab. Note    The colored background will be visible only in pictures that have transparent areas or do not fill the entire frame.
Recolor the picture Click the Format Picture tool and use the Picture tab.
Adjust contrast or brightness Click the contrast or brightness tools More Contrast         Less Contrast         More Brightness          Less Brightness         
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Wrapping Text Around a Picture

• You can set up different relationships between
  pictures and text by controlling how the text
  wraps around a picture.
• You can choose text wrapping options by clicking
  the Text Wrapping tool on the Picture
  toolbar.

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Wrapping Text Continued

• Top and Bottom -Text stops at the top of the
  picture's frame and continues after the bottom of
  the frame.
• Tight - Text wraps around the outline of the
  picture itself rather than around the frame.
• Square - Text wraps around the frame rather
  than around the picture itself.
• None - Text acts as if the picture isn't
  there.

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• Happy Brochuring!