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About this lesson
Understanding the screen layout is paramount to mastering this program. This lesson gives a concise tour of the scratch area, rulers, ribbons, and status bar tools.
Lesson versions
Multiple versions of this lesson are available, choose the appropriate version for you:
2016, 2019/365.
Quick reference
Publisher 2016 Screen Overview
Understanding the screen layout is paramount to mastering this program.
When to use
Every time you use Publisher 2016, you will be aware of the small details of information tucked into the screen layout. In future lessons you will focus on specific areas.
Instructions
Follow along with the video for an introduction to the Publisher 2016 screen elements. This includes:
- The Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) - add commands for easy access
- Ribbons - File, Home, Insert, Page Design, Mailings, Review, View
- Help, Minimize, Maximize, and Close buttons
- Status Bar: Page Count, Page Layout, and Zoom Controls
Take the time to open your Publisher 2016 program and click the View ribbon.
- Turn on the Boundaries, Guides, Rulers, Page Navigation and Scratch area buttons.
- 00:04 Hello and welcome to Publisher 2016 whenever you start with a new software,
- 00:09 it's a good idea to become familiar with the entire screen area.
- 00:13 First of all we'll start with the ribbons, the file ribbon, the home ribbon,
- 00:17 the insert ribbon.
- 00:17 They're called ribbons because there's simply long strips with a bunch of
- 00:21 tools on them.
- 00:22 And during this course, you'll get to know many of these tools.
- 00:26 Above the ribbons is our quick access toolbar.
- 00:28 We will have a completely separate lesson on how to
- 00:31 customize this very important toolbar.
- 00:33 In the center it says Publication1 because that's a default name for
- 00:37 a brand new publication.
- 00:38 I haven't saved it yet or given it my own name.
- 00:41 And here then we have the name of the program we're using.
- 00:45 Over on the right we have our help button, our minimize, our maximize and
- 00:48 the close button which now turns a bright red which I like a lot.
- 00:52 Below that we have the sign in button, that is so you can upload your files,
- 00:57 to the Microsoft One Drive account that is completely optional.
- 01:02 On the right we have a scroll bar that I can click and
- 01:04 drag the lever here, I can use the arrows at the bottom I have double arrows.
- 01:08 One is for pervious page, one is Next page of course, this is a one page document so
- 01:13 I can't use those, but they are there for you.
- 01:16 And then of course we have the horizontal scroll bar that I can click and
- 01:18 drag around as well.
- 01:20 At the very bottom we have our zoom control.
- 01:23 I can click the minus to zoom out or the plus to zoom in or I can click and
- 01:27 drag the lever and determine myself how big I want it to be on my screen.
- 01:32 To the left of that we have a two-page spread button or
- 01:35 a single page spread and it's certainly that's up to you as well.
- 01:40 Over on the left this is a status bar down here but this one says, Object Size, but
- 01:44 doesn't show anything.
- 01:45 Well since I already have an object on my screen, if I activate the object,
- 01:49 now the object size actually tells me how big that particular object is.
- 01:55 Over here, it gives me object position on my screen and then page 1 of 1.
- 02:02 This is called the page navigation panel and I like this a lot.
- 02:06 And now I wanna draw your attention to the view ribbon because there's a few more
- 02:10 things we need to set up and get ready to start using Publisher.
- 02:14 First of all right over here I have a button that says boundaries.
- 02:17 Now watch the object where it says Publisher 2016.
- 02:20 When I turn on the boundary button, I get you can hardly see them,
- 02:25 they're very faint, but a little tiny dotted line around all of these letters.
- 02:31 Those are the boundaries of the actual letter.
- 02:34 Turn it on, turn it off.
- 02:35 I hope you can see it change a little.
- 02:37 Now the guide, the guide is actually a margin marker on my screen.
- 02:40 It shows me the margin, and so
- 02:42 if I wanna stay within margins, that's a margin guide.
- 02:45 Now the rulers, those will position to the top and to the left of my screen.
- 02:49 Now I know exactly where I can place things on my screen.
- 02:53 The page navigation, I'll turn it off, so you'll see it vanish.
- 02:57 But I like to work with that on, so I'm just gonna leave that right there.
- 03:01 Now the scratch area.
- 03:02 If I turn that off and on, nothing happens.
- 03:05 The left gray area, top, and
- 03:07 right gray area around your document is called the scratch area.
- 03:10 So basically I can pull things off my screen into this criteria or
- 03:15 right back onto my document.
- 03:16 So I can layout graphics out here and
- 03:18 use them when I'm ready, lay them in the scratch area.
- 03:21 The graphics manager, we will use that panel when we start working with Pictures
- 03:26 right now I won't have it on there though.
- 03:28 And then the base lines.
- 03:30 Now base lines and guides don't print, those are simply lines that show you and
- 03:34 help you line graphics and text up on your screen on your document.
- 03:39 But please be aware they do not print.
- 03:42 All right so that's a basic structure layout and
- 03:44 that's how we're gonna go ahead and get started.
- 03:46 So stay with me and I'll see you in the next lesson.
- 03:49 Thank you.
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