Page Design Ribbon - a

Quick reference

• 00:00 The Page Design ribbon in Publisher is incredibly important.
• 00:07 Every time you are in a publication, you will be in the Page Design.
• 00:12 First of all let's make sure we do have a newsletter open on our screen.
• 00:15 If you click file and new you're going to see the Trader News Newsletter in there.
• 00:19 Or go ahead and choose any other flyer you'd like.
• 00:22 Since mine's open I'm gonna go ahead and hit the back button.
• 00:25 Notice on the left hand panel I do have my page navigation.
• 00:28 If yours is not there, please click on the view ribbon and
• 00:31 activate the page navigation check box right there.
• 00:34 All right, going back to the page design.
• 00:36 Right over on the left we have change template.
• 00:38 Change template simply means you want to choose a different template entirely.
• 00:43 And so I can click on the home ribbon, I can choose newsletters, and here's all
• 00:48 the different newsletter style changes, go ahead and choose any one you want, or
• 00:53 in my case, I'm going to just click cancel and go back to the one I'm already using.
• 00:57 The next section is page setup.
• 00:59 Now the margins.
• 01:00 The margins is the white area between the edge of your text boxes and
• 01:05 the very edge of the paper, and of course, on top as well.
• 01:08 And so if you want to change margins, simply at the dropdown choose wide,
• 01:12 moderate, narrow, none, or set your own margins.
• 01:15 Now the paper orientation, which way is your paper shaped?
• 01:18 Is it up and down or sideways for landscape, portrait or landscape?
• 01:22 It's up to you as well to go ahead and make that choice.
• 01:25 And paper size.
• 01:26 Generally letter size, 8.5 by 11, is what we generally use.
• 01:30 But maybe legal, that would be 14 inches long.
• 01:32 Tabloid, 11 x 17.
• 01:34 That's more of a newspaper format where you would actually fold the newspaper or
• 01:39 the newsletter in half and have them sitting on a table somewhere.
• 01:43 You can create your own paper size.
• 01:45 Simply get a ruler, measure your paper and type in the paper size right here.
• 01:49 And there you have a custom paper size.
• 01:51 All right, as for the Guides, the Layout area.
• 01:54 Now the Guides will make your screen look a little busy.
• 01:57 These are simply used to lineup pictures in a nice format on the screen.
• 02:03 But notice these blue lines came on my screen.
• 02:06 I have a margin guide wrapped around and then I have a couple column guides.
• 02:10 Now these guides are completely customizable.
• 02:12 Right down here at the bottom.
• 02:14 The grid and baseline guides.
• 02:16 I choose that, I can choose my margin guide line up, my grid guides,
• 02:19 my baseline guides which simply means I wanna layout all my text,
• 02:23 edit in a certain font size, I'm not gonna type in that size.
• 02:27 I'm simply gonna look in guides that will allow that size.
• 02:30 So I can change anything I want in here.
• 02:32 Generally I just leave it the same and if I want to turn off these blue lines
• 02:36 because they look confusing, go back to guides and just hit no ruler guides.
• 02:41 Now notice when I turned it off I still have my margin guide.
• 02:45 It wasn't there previously and it didn't go off.
• 02:48 So, I'll go ahead and click on the view ribbon.
• 02:50 And I'll uncheck guides and now my margin guide will absolutely vanish and
• 02:54 there it's gone.
• 02:56 So you have two areas to turn off your guides if they're not going away.
• 03:00 All right, I wanna talk more about pages and background colors and images.
• 03:06 But we're gonna need a whole lesson for that.
• 03:08 So come back in the next video, we're still gonna be working with
• 03:11 the Trader News Newsletter so I'll see you shortly.
• 03:14 Thank You.

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