as you can see the blue guide is
currently visible in our publication
before we begin let's go ahead and hide
our boundaries and guides they're really
helpful but right now it might be nice
to work with the publication without
them we can turn it back on at any time
to do this let's select view from the
main menu now boundaries and guides has
a checkmark beside it which means that
they're currently displayed let's select
it and turn them off for now now I want
to work on enhancing the design of our
publication let's start by modifying the
fonts I really like the verdanna font
that we used in our table I'm going to
select the text in our list and go up to
the formatting toolbar and come down and
select the verdanta font now we're going
to need to resize the text box so all of
the text fits
and I want to change the font in my
other text boxes as well we'll change
this one to ver Donna to and I think my
heading would look nice in a different
font all together let's see what is
available
let's try papyrus I like that and i'm
going to go ahead and move some of these
objects around a bit
you
one of the things that publisher allows
you to do is to add a drop cap at the
beginning of a paragraph this is very
useful in newsletters you may have even
seen it in your newspaper or a magazine
I want to try it here just to see what
it looks like to add a drop cap select
the first letter of your sentence or
paragraph will select the N and now then
select format from the main menu and
select drop cap the drop cap dialog box
appears and you can select one of the
available drop options or even create
your own custom drop cap you can see the
previews in the preview window I think I
like this one right here so I'll select
it and click on ok now we can see the
drop cap in our flyer let's click off of
that text box and you can see that it
would look really good in some
publications but I'm not really sure
that I like it here or if I even need
this text box at all I think for right
now I'm just going to go ahead and
delete this entire text box
another way we can enhance our text is
to wrap the text around images in our
publication we see this often in
newspapers and magazines but it will
work for our flyer too first I need to
select our clipart image and then right
click on it select format picture the
format picture dialog box appears I'm
going to click on the Layout tab now I
have several options for how the text
can wrap around our image and you can
see those here the magazines i mentioned
probably use square and tight rapping
but for this flyer i'm going to choose
top and bottom and click on OK I now
need to do exactly the same thing for my
text box I'm going to select the text
box and then right click on it select
format text box the format text box
dialog box appears I'm going to move
over to the Layout tab and select top
and bottom and click on OK before I can
begin moving the clipart image and text
box around I should make sure the image
or Doreen is set I'll right click the
image and choose order and bring to
front now I can begin to move these two
objects around
you
now i have my list wrapped around my
image at the top and the bottom you can
try some of the other text wrapping
options on your own they really do a lot
to make a publication look unique I like
the way this looks so let's go ahead and
group these two objects together finally
another great feature that publisher
gives us is the ability to format text
vertically I like my title but I think
it would look better if it ran
vertically on the left side of my page
to format the text vertically I need to
select the text box and right click it
and then choose format text box the
format text box dialog box appears we
need to click the text box tab from here
all we need to do is select rotate text
within auto shape by 90 degrees and
click on OK but we're not done yet we
need to stretch this text box
you'll notice that some of our icons on
the formatting toolbar have changed
since we change the direction of the
text if we move to a text box that has
the traditional horizontal alignment the
icons revert back to what we're used to
now I need to move this text over to the
left but first I need to free rotate it
so that the text appears in the
direction I need
and let's go ahead and make this title a
little bit bigger I want to stretch my
text box out and go ahead and increase
the font size
you can see that publisher gives you
many ways to enhance your text and
thereby enhance your publication feel
free to play with these features on your
own