in this lesson we're going to cover the
basics of objects in Microsoft Publisher
currently we're working with our for
sale flyer now let's take a look at the
actual objects that we have on our flyer
we have an auto shape object which is
this circle we also have a text box and
we have a picture now a couple of
objects that do not appear on our flyer
would be tables and clipart objects now
we can change the size of any object in
our publication let's go ahead and
select our auto shape object our circle
and we're going to place the cursor over
one of the corners of the object until
we see our resize cursor now our resize
cursor is simply a line with two arrows
on it we're gonna right-click our mouse
and hold down the button as we drag the
mouse until the object is the size we
want release the mouse button
we can also resize our object
horizontally or vertically and release
the mouse button we can also change the
orientation of any object on the page
which means we can rotate it let's go
ahead and select our picture now let's
go up to our main menu and select a
range and under a range we're going to
select rotate or flip now we're going to
go ahead and rotate our picture to the
left 90 degrees now this doesn't make
sense for our publications so we're
going to go ahead and put it back to the
way it was we're going to go back up to
the main menu select a range select
rotate or flip and we're going to flip
it back to the right 90 degrees you also
have the option to free rotate an object
in order to do this make sure your
object is selected and you're gonna go
to that little green circle at the top
of the object and place your cursor on
it and you're going to see a rotate
cursor which is simply a rounded line
with an arrow and you're going to hold
your right mouse button down and you can
free rotate your object again this
doesn't make sense to have our picture
this way so we're going to put it back
to the way it was we may also move any
object on the screen to another location
we need to make sure our object is
selected let's go ahead and select our
circle again and you'll see that you
have the move cursor the move cursor
looks like a cross with four arrows on
it go ahead and right-click your mouse
button and you can move that object to
any other location on the page we'll
move it up just a little bit from where
it was now lastly we may also change the
fill color for an object on the page for
this example let's select the large
rectangle object that is sort of behind
our circle in our picture and we're
going to go up to our formatting toolbar
and we're going to see the fill color
icon now we're going to click on the
down arrow beside that icon here you see
that we have some standard colors that
are in our palette that we can choose
from we could also choose no fill to
have it have no color or we could come
down and choose more fill colors and
that's what we're going to do this time
the colors dialog box appears as you can
see we have two tabs standard and custom
we're going to select the standard
colors tab
and let's say we want our background to
be light blue instead of the orange that
it is so we're going to select a light
blue color and you can see at the bottom
right hand side of the dialog box your
new color and your current color in
order to save this as our background
color let's select okay and you can see
that the object we selected is now light
blue now that you've learned the basics
about objects you can continue to format
your publication a little more to your
own liking