Welcome to the Microsoft Publisher 2013 Essentials course. Publisher is a desktop publishing tool and a flexible and powerful authoring software. It goes well beyond what you can produce with word processing software like Word. This course will help you learn to produce high-quality publications for both personal and business use.

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:

• Create new publications from a template or a blank file
• Understand the Publisher interface
• Create a publication with pictures, text, hyperlinks, page parts, business information, and multiple pages
• Work with pictures
• Work with text editing and formatting
• Work with objects
• Work with pages
• Finalize files for publication