Page Design Ribbon - a

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay, continuing the lesson, and we are on the Page Design ribbon.
• 00:08 And we're going to focus on the Template, the Page Setup, and
• 00:11 the Layout guides in this particular lesson.
• 00:14 First of all, maybe you're in charge of a newsletter that has to be done on
• 00:17 a monthly basis, and they like it to look different every time.
• 00:20 Well, to have to copy over the logo to the new template could be a bit of a hassle.
• 00:25 So the great way to do that is to simply change your template every month.
• 00:29 So leave everything in place.
• 00:31 All your text boxes can stay in place.
• 00:33 Your master page stays in place.
• 00:35 You just hit the Change Template.
• 00:37 You come right into this brand new dialog box, and on the Home button at the top,
• 00:42 the little Home, you can scroll down to Newsletters.
• 00:45 When I double-click on Newsletter, now I can come in here and
• 00:49 choose any format I want.
• 00:51 I'll go ahead and choose this one.
• 00:53 And let me scroll up so we can see it, there we go.
• 00:57 I'm going to go and hit the OK button.
• 00:59 It's going to ask me, apply the template to the current publication?
• 01:02 Yes, or create a brand new publication using my text and graphics.
• 01:06 I'm going to go ahead and hit OK to this, and
• 01:07 you're going to see everything change on the left-hand side of my screen, click.
• 01:11 When I click OK, it just changed up everything, the entire design.
• 01:16 But do I have the important points that I needed to keep?
• 01:19 Do I have all my original pictures?
• 01:22 Yes, they are in there.
• 01:23 Do I have my headers and footers?
• 01:25 Yes, they are in there.
• 01:26 I seem to have lost my logo.
• 01:27 All right, that's an easy fix to put that one back, but
• 01:31 I'm willing to make that sacrifice.
• 01:33 Okay, at this point, let's go ahead and move on with our Page Design.
• 01:37 Let's take a look at Margins.
• 01:38 Here's a reality about the Page Setup section,
• 01:41 you're always going to be in here.
• 01:43 When you're in advanced level working on technical parts of a newsletter,
• 01:46 you're going to come in and check your margins.
• 01:48 You might have to change them.
• 01:50 You can customize your margins as well.
• 01:52 You're going to be looking at your Orientation, Portrait or Landscape.
• 01:55 Landscape means your paper looks like it's sideways, horizontal, and
• 01:59 Portrait is vertical paper.
• 02:01 So it just depends on your paper size.
• 02:03 Let me show you the next one, paper size, here.
• 02:05 Current is 8 and a half by 11.
• 02:07 Then we have the A measurement papers, which means the Asia papers.
• 02:12 We have the B papers.
• 02:13 And then we have in America, the Legal, Letter, Letter Booklet, Tabloid.
• 02:18 Tabloid is where you're going to change your orientation to landscape.
• 02:22 So it prints out sideways, so that you can fold the thing in half and
• 02:26 you have a nice little flyer too, a newspaper flyer.
• 02:29 You can create your new paper size simply by getting out a ruler,
• 02:33 measuring your paper, and entering the measurements right in here, all right?
• 02:36 So you can do a lot with paper size.
• 02:38 Now Guides, Guides are the technical way you're going to line up your objects,
• 02:43 your pictures, your text boxes on the screen.
• 02:45 And you just choose which guide layout you want to use.
• 02:49 Now, I'm going to go for this grid right here, 7 by 5 grid.
• 02:51 When I click that, I basically have five columns and seven rows of grids.
• 02:57 Now I can tell this to align my objects to the guide,
• 03:00 or align objects to other objects.
• 03:03 I think I want both of the options to be checkmarked.
• 03:05 So at this point, I can click on anything right here.
• 03:09 And can you see it happen?
• 03:10 I want you to take a look at these green lines.
• 03:13 As I click and move this picture around,
• 03:15 when I come up to a guide, they turn a darker color.
• 03:19 See the dark green happening when I'm coming up to it?
• 03:23 That's because it's snapping to the guide.
• 03:25 And it's just brightening up to let me know that I'm hitting a guide.
• 03:29 That's why we align to guides, or we align to other objects as well.
• 03:33 When I click and drag and move this thing around, the other object might show up.
• 03:37 There was a pink line there.
• 03:38 I don't know if you can see it.
• 03:40 I'm hoping you can.
• 03:41 As I click and drag, check out the pink line at the top of this thing,
• 03:45 because it's, yep, the pink lines are telling me it's aligning to other objects.
• 03:50 And then the dark green and dark blue lines, it's aligning to the guide.
• 03:54 It gets really technical.
• 03:55 You get your eyeballs focused on there and you'll see it all happen.
• 03:59 Well, after having them lined up, I want these guys gone.
• 04:01 I don't want them in it.
• 04:02 They look too cluttered on my screen.
• 04:04 I want them gone.
• 04:05 So I'm going to click on the drop down arrow and have this option here,
• 04:08 No Ruler Guides.
• 04:09 Click, turn those off.
• 04:10 I'm still left with one outline guide.
• 04:13 It's called a margin guide.
• 04:14 For that one, I need to go to my View ribbon and turn off Guides.
• 04:18 Now watch the outer guide on the screen, it's about to disappear.
• 04:22 Click, gone.
• 04:23 Now I have a nice, clean screen.
• 04:25 It just helps you see what the end layout is going to look like.
• 04:29 All right, that's it for now, but we have more to do in the next video.
• 04:31 Stay with me.
• 04:32 This is really advanced level stuff, okay.

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