Microsoft Publisher is a desktop publishing program that allows users to design professional print and web materials with ease. It contains toolbars for common formatting and layout tasks, including standard, formatting, and objects toolbars. Publisher provides templates for many publication types like newsletters, flyers, brochures, and web pages that users can customize with their own text and graphics. It offers different editing modes optimized for print or web publication.

1. MS Publisher

2. Intro to MS Publisher
What is Microsoft Publisher?
Microsoft Publisher is a full-featured
desktop publishing program that helps you
design and publish professional print and Web-
based materials with ease.
Using its familiar interface, you can
precisely lay out blocks of text, graphics,
calendars, order forms, and more.

3. Publisher Toolbars and Menus

4. Publisher Toolbars and Menus

5. Publisher Toolbars and Menus

6. Publisher Toolbars and Menus
While all of Publisher’s commands are
contained in the menu bar, most of the tasks
can be accomplished using the toolbars and
task pane menus.
Publisher’s toolbars, which group
together shortcuts to command commands, are
virtually identical to those included in other
Office applications.

7. Publisher Toolbars and Menus
The most frequently used toolbars are the:
 Standard toolbar, which contains buttons for
opening, saving, printing, and editing
publications.
The Zoom box and magnifying glass
buttons at the end of the toolbar let you
change the display size of the publication
you’re working in.

8. Publisher Toolbars and Menus
 Formatting toolbar contains buttons and
drop-down menus for applying formatting
to text, paragraphs, and objects.
 Objects toolbar, displayed vertically along
the left side of the Publisher window,
provides buttons for inserting the objects
you’ll include in your publication which
include text boxes, picture boxes, lines,
shapes, and Design Gallery objects.

9. Publisher Toolbars and Menus
To insert an object into a page of your
publication, you simply
This makes Publisher a much easier and
more versatile tool for designing professional
publications than standard word processing
programs.
 click the button on the Objects toolbar and
then click and drag to the dimensions you
want.

10. Publisher Toolbars and Menus
Ruler Guide
A horizontal or vertical guide that can be
moved to any point on the ruler to help align
the elements you lay out in your publication.
You can create as many guides as you
need.
When the Snap to Ruler Marks feature is
turned on, objects you place near a ruler guide
will automatically snap into alignment.

11. Creating a Publication
Publisher provides a large variety of pre-
built designs for each publication type.
To quickly create a new publication, all you
have to do is select the design and replace the
placeholder text and graphics.
The types of publications include a large
number of sub-types, each with its own set of
pre-built designs.

12. Types of Publications
Print publications include
 newsletters  flyers  labels
 brochures  business cards
 signs  resumes
Types:
Web publications include designs for
 web sites  electronic newsletters, and
 other event announcements that you can
distribute via e-mail.

13. Types of Publications
Publisher uses a distinct editing mode for
print and Web publications, with each
containing specialized options.
Print mode includes options for
commercial printing, which aren’t available to
Web mode.
On the other hand, Web mode ensures
that the elements you include in your
publication are optimized for the Web.

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