in this lesson we're going to discuss
the templates and then choose one for
our own publication note the task pane
on the left hand side of the screen this
task pane is really the heart of
Microsoft Publisher even though you can
get to most of the same actions through
the toolbars let's begin by selecting
the publication's for print templates as
you can see these templates are arranged
by topic
or type you can see that we have
business cards and business forms we
have gift certificates and greeting
cards we have labels and letterhead now
let's take a look at the design sets by
clicking on the design sets templates
note that these templates are arranged
by style publisher gives you the ability
to choose various publications based on
a consistent design many businesses find
these sets helpful because it adds a
level of consistency to their
publications let's look at the master
sets you see that we have our accent box
we have borders we have blocks and
within each of these types of design
sets you can see that we have many
different publications available this
creates a level of consistency within
all your publications you see that we
have a blocks business card as well as a
calendar a catalog and envelopes let's
briefly take a look at the websites and
email templates by selecting those I
wanted to mention that publisher does
give you the capability to create
websites and email however we will not
be covering that particular feature in
this lesson finally you can create blank
publications by selecting the blank
publications templates from here you can
choose a specific blank publication and
be as creative as you want you can
create your very own custom publication
now that we've briefly covered all of
the types of templates let's go back and
learn how to choose one of our own
select the publications for print
templates from here let's choose to
create a flyer from the flyer selections
let's choose a sale flyer for the
purposes of this lesson we're going to
select the for sale flyer to the
personal information dialog box appears
here is where we have the opportunity to
enter information that can be applied to
all publications this is especially
helpful for businesses publisher will
automatic
pre-fill various templates for this
lesson let's select a personal
information set we're going to make this
our home and family set let's type in a
name where the tagline or motto is you
could put a family or home tagline if
you have one for the purposes of this
lesson we're just going to delete this
and leave it blank also where the job or
position title is we're going to delete
that and leave it blank as well as the
organization name in the address box
we're going to type in our home address
we'll type in our home phone number we
don't have a fax number at home so we're
going to leave this one blank delete
that for our email we'll type in our
email address and we're done with our
personal information let's click on the
ok button now it's time to save our
newly created publication we can save
from the file menu on the menu toolbar
we'll select save now it's going to ask
us for our file name we're going to name
this sale flyer now select the Save
button see how easy that was
with a few simple clicks we were able to
choose a professional-looking template
and save it as a file to begin creating
our publication in the next lesson we'll
start making it our own