Publisher 98 Courseware Outline

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What is Microsoft Publisher 98?

• What is Publisher 98?
• Getting familiar with the environment
• Publications by wizard
• Publications by design
• Blank publications
• Existing publications
• Viewing the Publisher 98 window without a catalog
• Menus and toolbars
• Rulers and measurements

Starting to use Publisher 98

• Learning about wizards
• Using zoom
• Hiding and showing the wizard
• Publications by wizard
• Changing the design
• Save and save as
• Publications by design
• Blank publication
• Opening a publication from disk
• Personal information

Understanding Publisher 98 objects

• Creating Publisher objects
• Create a text frame
• Using undo and redo
• Text frame - text entry
• Table frame tool
• Inserting a new page
• Deleting a page
• The Wordart frame tool
• Wordart formatting toolbar
• The picture frame tool
• The clip art frame tool
• Drawing objects
• Changing the view
• Zoom
• Previous page, next page
• Background
• Picture display
• Show hide characters
• Boundaries and guides

Manipulating objects within Publisher 98

• Copy, cut and paste objects
• Changing picture frames
• Changing clip art
• Re-sizing objects
• Moving objects
• Re-coloring objects
• The crop picture tool
• Adjusting outline nodes

Manipulating text within Publisher 98

• Text flow
• Disconnecting frames
• Copyfit text
• Other text formatting options
• Importing text
• Spell check a publication

Layout issues and Publisher 98

• Page setup
• Layering objects
• Aligning objects
• Nudging objects
• Flipping and rotating objects
• Group and ungroup objects

Printing your work using Publisher 98

• Setting up for a printing service
• Printing to an installed printer

Creating a web using Publisher 98

• Converting a Publisher document to HTML
• Viewing the web
• Web properties
• Hot spot tool
• Form control tool
• Html code fragment
• Publish to web wizard

Mail merge and Publisher 98

• Creating a mail merge database
• Finishing the mail merge
• Editing a Publisher address list
• Opening another data source
• Adding sort criteria