Create professional publications and newsletters with a variety of layouts and formats.

Open participant course: £195 per person - maximum 10 people

Closed company course: £1,000 per course - maximum 10 people

Those who need to create professional publications using a variety of text and images and also multiple page publications and mass distribution using mail merge.

By the end of the course, you will be able to create a range of publications that include text, graphics, tables and images with precise layouts and formats.

Publisher Essential Skills:

• Creating publications using templates
• Page view settings
• Working with objects
• Creating, opening and saving publications

Page Layout:

• Page setup
• Layout guides
• Managing pages

Working with Text:

• Using text boxes
• Creating stories in connected text boxes
• Inserting and importing text
• Spell checking

Formatting Text:

• Formatting text with fonts, sizes and colours
• Using text effects
• Copying formats with format painter
• Changing paragraph alignment
• Line and paragraph spacing
• Indenting text
• Creating bulleted and numbered lists
• Displaying text in columns
• Working with styles and schemes

Formatting Shapes and Pictures:

• Shape styles and effects
• Aligning and grouping shapes
• Editing and cropping pictures

Publication Design Features:

• Using building blocks
• Managing business information
• Creating and navigating tables
• Inserting and deleting rows and columns
• Formatting tables

Master Pages, Headers and Footers:

• Creating and managing master pages
• Applying headers, footers and page numbers

Working with Newsletters:

• Creating and editing newsletters

Mail Merge:

• Produce letters and labels using mail merge
• Creating a mail merge data source
• Editing the data source

Finalising Publications:

• Publication design checker
• Printing publications

This course can be delivered remotely or in a classroom environment, to suit your requirements.

attendees must be able to confidently work within a Windows environment and ideally another Microsoft application such as Word or PowerPoint.

Attendees must have the following equipment to attend this training remotely:

• PC or laptop with a microphone and speakers (webcam is preferred but not essential)
• Access to the internet and web browser application (e.g. Google Chrome)
• Microsoft Excel installed on the PC or laptop
• An email account for file sharing
• A second screen is ideal but not essential