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Liam James A2 Applied ICT

This is a guide on how to use Desktop Publisher. This will show different tools and techniques that you can use within the programme.

How to guide on Desktop Publishing

This is the formant toolbar, this will let you chose your colour palette and set it too what ever you colours are. To do this

Format, colour schemes. A menu of different colour palettes should then come up and then you can scroll through it and

chose a colour scheme or use your own; to use your own you will have too click custom colour schemes as the bottom and

at this point 8 different colours will come up these are you colour schemes which are the five colours as well as

hyperlinks.


This menu is the text styles menu, you will find this in the same place as the colour schemes under format then styles and formatting. This allows you to create your own

style for headers, block text and hyperlinks for example. To do this click on create new style which will bring up a box where you can chose what the text looks like, you can change everything then call it you own name, once you have done this you can

then save it and it will be on your saved document so you can quickly just click the text style when you want to use it.

Margins is another great thing to change, it means you have more or less space to

work with, to change the margins you click Arrange, then layout guides. This will bring

up a screen like the one to the left, then you just have to change the numbers in

the sliders. A good margin will be around 1.5.

Whilst you are on layout guides you can change the tick box to ticked to create two page spread, this is for your master page.


You can then when the tick box has been ticked in layout guides create you master page, to do this go View, then click Master and Two Page Spread, this will give you

two pages to create your master page on. A master I the background pretty much that you can design so it stays on each page throughout the entire publication.

.By using header and footer it means you can display basic information such as page number, date, name and any information you like above the border at the top of

the page and also at the bottom. To do this go into View then header and footer, boxes should appear at the top

and bottom of the page, just click and start writing.


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This tool bar is found on the left of the screen and it is the drawing tool bar, here you can insert shapes and text boxes by clicking the button and then clicking and

drawing the box or shape.

Hyphenation is when the word gets split into two over two lines to stop this

and make it look more professional click tools, language and hyphenation, at this point a box will appear what you

have to do is un tick the little box.

You can also insert pictures into the document, if they are saved pictures

click insert, picture, from file and chose the image. If they are not and they

have been copied just right click and paste. You can do this with print

screen shots as will and then crop them when they are in. If you need to crop an image or change it in any way you can use the picture tool bar which

is this one below.

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