when you create a blank publication and
publisher you can create a document
completely on your own without any
design assistance from publisher or you
can add designs and layouts that allow
you to be as creative as you want to be
both of these options are different from
a template which comes pre-formatted
with sample designs and placeholder text
in this lesson we're going to take a
look at some of the blank publications
options and see how you can get started
with designing your own publication in
the new publication task pane to the
left you can see that blank publications
is the fourth publication option let's
click blank publications and look at
some of our choices we have a blank
full-page publications postcards
business cards folded cards and more you
can navigate through these options by
clicking on them in this task pane or by
selecting them in the window on the
right let's select postcard by clicking
on it our blank postcard appears on the
right and on the Left we have
publication designs in the task pane
right now blank is selected as we hover
over the selection we can see that
publisher defines this as a blank quick
publication from here let's click on
quick publications options this is still
considered a blank publication but you
do have the ability to choose different
layouts you can see some of our
different choices if you choose to use
one of these layout options you can
enter in your information I'm going to
select this third one on the top row and
I want to promote GCF Global Learning so
let me type a few things about their
website
now if I want to switch to another
layout that text moves right along with
it the formatting may need to be
modified in some spots but this is a way
that you can create a blank publication
but still use some design and layout
elements from publisher without using a
template however right now I really want
to just create a blank publication where
i can add my own images text and more so
let's close this publication without
saving it let's come up to file and
select close will answer no to the
question do we want to save the changes
that we made to this publication now I
want to select blank publications in the
task pane let's click on full page a
blank full page opens in the right part
of the screen we have an open canvas and
can be as creative as we want to be
right now I'd like to create a flyer
advertising the piano lessons that I
teach part-time I'll be working on this
flyer in future lessons but right now I
want to add a clipart image to get
started from the main menu I'm going to
choose insert then picture then clipart
the clip art task pane opens since my
flyer is about the piano lessons I teach
I'm going to look for a piano clipart by
typing piano in the search field and
clicking on go
once I decide on a clipart image that I
like I can place my mouse over the image
and click on the arrow right beside it
and choose insert the image now appears
in my flyer now I just need to resize it
and move it to a desired location I'm
not sure whether i'll want it to stay
right here but for now this should be ok
I think I'm ready to save this
publication I need to select file from
the main menu and choose save as the
save as dialog box appears and I need to
enter the file name I want to call this
piano flyer so I type that in the field
and select the Save button now I can
select File clothes from the main menu
to close the publication now that you've
learned how to create and save a new
blank publication the fun part really
begins when you start adding your own
personality to the flyer