Welcome to the Microsoft Publisher 2013 Advanced course. Publisher is a task-based desktop publishing tool and a flexible and powerful authoring software. It goes well beyond what you can produce with a word processing software like Word. This course will help you learn more advanced skills for working with publications, including print, e-mail and web-based.

Course Objectives

Research has consistently demonstrated that when clear goals are associated with learning, it occurs more easily and rapidly. With that in mind, let’s review our goals for today.

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

• Work with advanced content options, like imported text and embedded objects
• Use advanced text options and typography
• Use advanced picture tasks, such as inserting pictures into a shape
• Edit and format shapes
• Use layering, grouping, and other graphics tools
• Use templates and guides
• Work with master pages
• Merge data sources to create email or mail merges and labels
• Create a catalog
• Work with publication information and options