Welcome to the Microsoft Publisher 2007 Advanced course. Publisher is a task-based desktop publishing tool, and a powerful piece of authoring software. It goes well beyond what you can produce with word processing software like Microsoft Word. This course will help you learn more advanced skills for working with publications, including print, e-mail and web-based.

Microsoft Publisher helps you design professional grade publications without having the professional experience. Designing and creating your own marketing materials or publications with Publisher's tool set is now easier than ever. Once your publication is created Publisher provides a great array of printing, sharing, and managing tools for your publications.

Course Objectives

Research has consistently demonstrated that when clear goals are associated with learning, it occurs more easily and rapidly.

By the end of this course, participants should be able to:

• Use the Format Publication pane to personalize publications
• Track the effectiveness of marketing materials
• Prepare publications for commercial printing
• Work with images
• Use the Graphics Manager Task Pane
• Use the Design Gallery
• Add text to a shape
• Understand graphic file formats and filters
• Move, group, ungroup, align, distribute and order objects
• Save files as different formats
• Import text from another file
• Work with file properties
• Work with the default working folder
• Plan a website and add website pages
• Convert print files to web format
• Compress graphic files for websites
• Work with page and paper sizes
• Understand the scratch area
• Add or remove headers and footers
• Add an object for multiple pages
• Wrap text around pictures
• Use sound and motion clips with keywords
• Use animated gifs
• Crop pictures
• Use media files
• Convert pictures to watermarks
• Make pictures transparent
• Find and replace text
• Export text
• Use special characters
• Work with tab stops
• Insert the date and time
• Create a data source, and address list and a mail merge
• Add postal bar codes to labels or envelopes