Publisher Screen Overview

Quick reference

• 00:04 Hello and welcome to the Publisher 2019 course.
• 00:08 Understanding the screen layout of Publisher is paramount to mastering
• 00:12 the program.
• 00:13 So what we're going to do is just kind of tour the scratch area, the rulers,
• 00:16 ribbons, the status bar tools, just to give you an idea what you need to look for
• 00:20 while you're working inside Publisher.
• 00:22 As you can see at the top in the green, and
• 00:24 I really like the color of green background up here, we've got ribbons.
• 00:28 The Home, the Insert, Page, Design, Mailings, Review, View,
• 00:32 of course the Help ribbon, and the very front one if the File ribbon.
• 00:36 When you first open up Publisher,
• 00:38 you're going to see something that looks like this.
• 00:39 These are all the base level templates that are available.
• 00:43 And then of course to get to the program, you'll just double click the blank one and
• 00:46 it'll open right up.
• 00:48 I've already got the blank one on my screen, but go ahead and
• 00:51 click on the Home ribbon.
• 00:52 Now of course the Home ribbon is full of buttons,
• 00:55 we'll be reviewing these ribbons individually throughout the course, but
• 00:58 I do also want you to notice the other areas of the screen.
• 01:01 Take a look right above the ribbon, this is called the quick access toolbar.
• 01:04 We will have a lesson specifically on setting up special buttons on that one.
• 01:09 Over here we have the title, we are on Publication1, and
• 01:11 the software I'm using is Publisher.
• 01:14 We have our sign in in case you want to share whatever it is you're designing up
• 01:18 to your OneDrive.
• 01:19 We have the question mark which means help, the minimize, the maximize, and
• 01:22 a close which turns a bright, and I do like that.
• 01:25 Please pay attention to the tool bar on the right hand side
• 01:29 where I can scroll up and down.
• 01:31 And notice the double up and the double down arrows right below that,
• 01:35 that jumps me from page one to page two in a flash.
• 01:38 I really love those buttons.
• 01:39 They used to have that Microsoft Word, they've taken that away.
• 01:42 I want them back.
• 01:43 All right, right over here we have the Zoom control, so I can move these little
• 01:46 levers, I can hit the plus sign, maybe I just want to go to whole page.
• 01:50 So there's a little button in the corner when I float my mouse that says
• 01:53 Show Whole Page.
• 01:54 I can do that.
• 01:55 And please notice also we have a couple buttons next to it.
• 01:58 One says two page spread, and this of course is single page spread,
• 02:01 while I only has one page so that's all I can see at this point.
• 02:05 Let's take focus on that status bar at the bottom, right over here.
• 02:08 We have an object size.
• 02:11 If you click that,
• 02:11 it will actually show you the size of the object you are clicked on.
• 02:15 I have no object right there, but this is a wonderful tool when we do begin to work
• 02:20 on our objects just to get a quick size measurement.
• 02:24 And we also have this little button.
• 02:26 When I float my mouse,
• 02:26 it says object position, which of course means you can move it around.
• 02:30 And of course that object size comes right back, and
• 02:33 right over here it says page one of one.
• 02:36 Now take a look at this panel, this is our pages panel.
• 02:39 This is on the View ribbon, so
• 02:41 when I click View, I can turn off all kinds of buttons here, okay.
• 02:46 Now the page navigation, turn it off, turn it on.
• 02:48 I love my page navigation on, so I always have mine on.
• 02:52 The scratch area simply means the grey area around the background.
• 02:56 I always want my scratch area available so I can lay little pictures out here,
• 03:01 and then when I'm ready to use them I can pull them in.
• 03:03 So this is not unused background, this is called the scratch area.
• 03:06 Think of it as your unused desktop of the desk you're sitting at.
• 03:11 Rulers, absolutely mandatory to have your rulers on.
• 03:14 And then our guides, I love my guides and my guides are always on because that
• 03:18 shows me the margins and the margin area around my document that I'm working on.
• 03:24 All right, that's a base level screen overview.
• 03:27 I'm going to end here on the Home ribbon.
• 03:29 And we're going to talk in depth on these ribbons.
• 03:32 You just got to know the important buttons on here
• 03:36 in order to be incredibly successful with Publisher and get your work done quickly.
• 03:39 So all right on to the next lesson.

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