Have you ever tried to use a word processing program to produce a publication and find that the program restricts your ability to be creative?  Inserting graphics creates an editing nightmare.  You just can’t seem to get the text to behave the way you want.  Your inspiration for creativity succumbs to the limitations of your word processing program.  This is both frustrating and unnecessary. 

Welcome to the Microsoft Publisher 2007 Essentials course.  In this course, you will learn the basic functionality and editing essentials that will allow you to produce high quality publications for both personal and business use.  Microsoft Publisher 2007 is a flexible and powerful authoring tool.  This course will teach you how to begin, edit, format and produce a publication in Microsoft Publisher 2007.  This course is a hands-on class that will have you producing documents today. 

Once you gain a basic understanding of Microsoft Publisher 2007, you will be able to produce a wide variety of documents for publication.  Before we can begin, let us get to know each other better and review some basic course expectations. 

Course Objectives

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

Before you leave this session today, you should be more familiar and comfortable using Microsoft Publisher 2007.  We have nine overall objectives that will allow us to achieve the goal of becoming better at using this program. 
In today’s course, participants will be able to do the following:

• Open and close Publisher
• Work with publications
• Create a publication
• Perform basic editing tasks
• Use the Format Publication task pane
• Perform basic formatting tasks
• Format paragraphs
• Format the page
• Add finishing touches