MS Publisher - Basics of Layout (PUBL)

Microsoft Office, Other

This practical course shows you how to design invitations, brochures, catalogs and other promotional pieces using MS Publisher. You will master page layout, choose and customize templates, manage text frames and place graphics to build print-ready documents efficiently.

You will gain hands-on skills for final production, including prepress checks, print export, and page setup. Learn to link spreadsheets and images, prepare assets from Excel or photo editors, apply styles, and follow basic advertising principles for effective layouts.

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The course:

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  • Introduction to the program
    1. purpose and typical uses
    2. program workspace (overview, controls, basic settings)
    3. practical uses
  • Theory and basic concepts
    1. fields
    2. text frames
    3. data objects
    4. graphic objects
    5. fonts (definition, types, edits, examples, usage)
    6. other characters
    7. additional font adjustments
  • Templates
    1. common document types and their uses
    2. templates (categories and where to get them)
    3. creating a file from a template
  • Publications
    1. main publication types and their uses
    2. pages in a publication (inserting, layout and view)
    3. headers and footers
    4. display options
    5. printing
  • Text
    1. text frames
    2. inserting text
    3. linking text frames
    4. editing text
    5. styles
    6. spell checking
  • Graphic objects
    1. images (inserting and editing)
    2. decorative text (inserting and editing)
    3. tables (inserting and editing)
    4. charts (inserting and editing)
    5. examples and typical use cases
  • Preparatory work
    1. preparing tables and charts (MS Excel or OpenOffice Calc)
    2. preparing images (Zoner Photo Studio or Adobe Photoshop)
    3. advertising (basic principles and examples)
    4. other preparations
  • Printing
    1. prepress preparation
    2. actual printing
  • Information
    1. information sources (books, magazines, websites)
    2. development and trends
Assumed knowledge:
Basic knowledge of Windows and MS Word.
Schedule:
2 days (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM )
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