Lesson 11: Creating a Newsletter

Learning Objectives

After studying this lesson, you will be able to:

Insert section breaks in documents

Use WordArt and clip art

Create and manipulate newsletter-style columns

Use building blocks

Apply themes

Insert pictures from files

Edit pictures

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Working with Section Breaks

Section breaks

Define a portion of the document that will have separate

formatting from the rest

Insert section breaks using the Layout tab

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Working with Section Breaks

See section breaks by choosing Home > Paragraph >

Show/Hide

Deleting section breaks

Tap Delete on a paragraph marker

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Using WordArt

Inserting WordArt

Insert > Text > WordArt

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Using WordArt

Wrapping around objects

Use the WordArt tools on the Format tab to change this

and other options

Sizing WordArt

Use handles to drag and change size

Using Clip Art

Finding clip art

Insert > Illustrations > Clip Art

Search to find images

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Using Clip Art

Sizing and rotating

Use handles

Moving

Use the four-pointed arrow to drag

Use alignment buttons to orient to text

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Working with Picture Styles

Applying a style

Styles add formatting such as borders, shadows, and

directionality

Use the Styles galley on the Format tab

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Working with Picture Styles

Setting a transparent color

Set the background of a clip art image to the same

color as the page background

Click the image and choose Select Transparent Color

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Basic Picture Editing

Insert a picture from a file

Use any image file that Windows can read

Insert > Illustrations > Picture

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Basic Picture Editing

Adjusting brightness and contrast

Change appearance on screen and in print

Right-click to make adjustments

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Basic Picture Editing

Cropping pictures

Hide parts of a picture without affecting the original

image

Choose Picture Tools > Format > Size to make crop

handles appear

Basic Picture Editing

Compressing a picture

Reduce the memory size of pictures to reduce the

memory size of your document

Format > Adjust > Compress

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Newsletter-Style Columns

Setting up columns

Page Layout > Page Setup > Columns

Specify the layout and number of columns

Column widths can be customized

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Newsletter-Style Columns

Column breaks

Force a column to end

Place headings at the tops of the columns

Page Layout > Page Setup > Breaks > Column Breaks

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Using Building Blocks

Insert predesigned content into documents

Insert > Pages

Choose a Word building

block or design your

own

Modify existing blocks

or create, save and/or delete your own

Sort the list

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Using Building Blocks

Preformatted text blocks

A kind of building block

A text box that has been

formatted already; you enter

your own text

Insert > Text > Quick Parts

Resize, reformat, customize, and save

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Applying Themes

Preset groups of colors, graphics, and formatting that

you can apply to any document

Page Layout > Themes > Themes Gallery

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Applying Themes

Customizing

Change color schemes, fonts, etc.

Save as your own

Reset changed themes to their

original setting

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Applying Themes

Drop caps

Creates a larger first letter in a paragraph

Insert > Text > Drop Cap

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Working with Views

View your document in several ways

Change views on the View tab or at the bottom-right

side of the Word window

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Working with Views

Zoom controls

Change the magnification of your document

Use the View tab or the bottom-right corner of the

Word window

Does not change the font size

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Lesson 11: Creating a Newsletter