MS -Publisher 2003

Module 1 -  (Basic Level - 21 Hour)

Session Subject Syllabus

 About this course
  • Welcome
  • Introduction and objectives
  • Getting help with the course
  • How the course is structured
  • About the MS-Office 2003
  • About the exercises
  • About Course Project
  • Summary

2

 Getting Started
  • Opening Publisher and Exploring the Publisher Desktop
  • Creating a New Publication
  • Navigating around a Publication Zooming in and Out
  • Saving Your Work and the Save Reminder
  • Closing and Opening a Publication

3

 Getting Help
  • Using the Help Index, Getting Help over the Internet and Printing Help
  • Using and Customizing the Office Assistant

4

 Working with a Publication
  • Personal Information
  • Entering and Formatting Text
  • Selecting, Moving, Sizing and Deleting Objects

  • Working with Guides and Rulers

  • Modifying the Page Setup

  • Logos and Design Gallery Objects

  • Working with a Publication Background

5

 Using the Objects Toolbar
  • Changing the Placement of the Objects Toolbar
  • Inserting Text Frames
  • Adding Pictures

6

 Printing a Publication
  • Checking the Printer Setup, Selecting Printer Options, Sending Your Work to the Printer and Troubleshooting Printing

7

 Module Summary
  • Final Examination
  • Project Evaluation
  • Your quiz score
  • Good luck

Module 2 -  (Intermediate Level - 15 Hour)

Session Subject Syllabus

 Wizards and Design Sets
  • Working with Design Sets and Using Special Paper
  • Using Wizards and Customizing a Document

2

 Text Techniques
  • Importing Text
  • Wrapping Text Around Objects
  • Search and Replace
  • The Spell Checker and AutoCorrect
  • Indents
  • Working with Styles

3

 Page Techniques
  • Creating Multi-column Text Frames
  • Moving, Inserting and Deleting Pages
  • Different Backgrounds for Left-Hand and Right-Hand Pages
  • Wrapping Text Around Other Elements

4

 Object Techniques
  • Inserting Drawing Objects
  • Grouping and Aligning Objects
  • Rotating Objects

5

 Module Summary
  • Final Examination
  • Project Evaluation
  • Your quiz score
  • Good luck

Module 3 -  (Advanced Level - 33 Hour)

Session Subject Syllabus

 About this course
  • Welcome
  • Introduction and objectives
  • Getting help with the course
  • How the course is structured
  • About the MS-Office 2003
  • About the exercises
  • About Course Project
  • Summary

2

 Advanced Graphic Techniques
  • Inserting Pictures from the Web using Keywords and the ClipArt Gallery
  • Cropping a Picture
  • Scaling Pictures
  • Re-Coloring Pictures
  • Rotating Pictures
  • Adding Borders and Shadows

3

 Border Art
  • Creating and Customizing Border Art

4

 Word Art
  • Creating a Word Art Object
  • Changing Text Formatting
  • Character Spacing
  • Special Effects
  • Editing a Word Art Object

5

 Tables
  • Adding, Creating a Heading, and Entering Data into the Table
  • Selecting Cells, Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns and Formatting Table Data

6

 Advanced Printing Techniques
  • Working with Commercial Printers and Specialized Printing Techniques

7

 Object Link and Embedding (OLE)
  • Inserting and Updating an OLE Object

8

 Using Mail Merge
  • Creating and Merging Address Lists
  • Merging with a non-Publisher source and Filtering or Sorting an Address List

9

 Creating a Web Site
  • Creating a Business Web Page using the Web Site Wizard
  • Adding Information to Web Pages and Customizing the Web Site
  • Viewing the Web Site in a Browser and Defining Hyperlinks
  • Publishing to the Web
  • Creating a Personal Web Page

10

 The Design Process
  •  Planning
  •  Selecting a Printer and Page Size and Orientation
  • Setting Up a Grid
  • Selecting a Color Scheme
  • Designing the Background
  • Positioning Text and Pictures
  • Fine-Tuning and Text Ove

11

 Module Summary
  • Final Examination
  • Project Evaluation
  • Your quiz score
  • Good luck