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Publisher

Rather than present this as a homework, this will be a step by step walkthrough. The word documents that are needed to support this are here:

Document Setup

  • create a new newsletter using "Photoscope" at the template
  • Go into the master page and make room at the top for a logo
  • Insert Design Gallery Object -> Logo -> Crossed Corner
  • Change the text to Western State College of Colorado. Make the text big enough to fill the available area and use a bold font. You can ungroup to move / resize this object - regroup when done.
  • Change the picture at the left to "w.gif". Resize to fill the area.
  • Add a border to this picture
  • Size the logo and place it at the top of the page above the blue box denoting page content
  • Add a left to right gradient fill to the page background - fill from "Accent 4" on the left to white on the right. The background adjustment is under "format".
  • Close the master view

Page 1

  • Make the newsletter title "Top of the World"
  • Change the logo at the top of the page to say "Western State College"
  • Swap in the western logo - note that it will be retinted to the theme colors. Enlarge this as shown.
  • Add an issue and a date
  • Place the "SGA Plans for the Move" story in the first story. Enter the story title and paste the story from MS word into the text area.
  • Change the style of the author name to "Heading 4"
  • Change the style of the date to "tagline"
  • Add "Continued on" to the stories
  • Add "You Robot" as the second story - format author and date as above
  • Fill in the upper sidebar as follows:
    • CRESTED BUTTE OPENS
    • FINALS JUST 2 WEEKS AWAY!
    • CROSS COUNTRY TEAM GOES TO NATIONALS
    • BASKETBALL TEAM BEATS COLORADO COLLEGE
  • Resize to fit the content
  • Fill in the "In this issue" with other stories
    • Gunny Speaks: 2
    • Western Coach in Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated: 3
    • Dupont Named Colorado Wrestler of the Year: 4
  • Place a calendar for December 2008 with Finals Week highlighted on the right above "In This Issue". You'll need to resize the text to make this fit.

Page 2

  • Remove one of the empty stories
  • Continue the student union story - place "Continued from" in the textbox
  • Resize the columns to exactly fit the You Robot length.
  • Add "Gunny Speaks" - fiddle with the text size / box size to make this fit onto the page.
  • Place the gunnison rising picture on the left and add the appropriately sized caption.
  • Make sure the picture is big enough
  • Place the quote in the quote box
  • Add the captioned picture of the bowling alley at the left. Crop the left side a bit.

Page 3

  • Continue the Digital Religon story into the top area. Delete the third story area - resize the columns so that they all line up evenly.
  • Add the automatic "continued from page 1" to the story (in format textbox)
  • Add the sports illustrated story at the bottom.
  • Add the "Double Square" accessory Bar between stories.
  • Place the picture of the coach Michel in the sidebar. Use a "squares" picture caption from the design gallery. Add a border to this box.
  • Add the quote as from the story as shown.
  • Fill the middle of the right margin with the nested boxes accent.

Page 4

  • Change this to a 1 column style
  • Remove unneeded fields and add the "Live. Learn. Here." at the top.
  • Copy the "Fast Facts" from http://western.edu/admissions/facts.html (ending with the majors/minors) into a box on this page. Style the table as shown.
  • Insert a captioned picture as shown with the new union. Crop the union picture.
  • Insert the ad for the Costa Rica trip. Take out unneeded fields.
  • Align the ad and the picture of the union.
  • Add a quote box on the left containing the lead sentence at http://western.edu/admissions/
  • Add the story "Dupont named wrestler of the year" in the article area
  • Place a barbell above the article
  • Place a box on the left to describe 120 - this uses Gallery -> Sidebar -> Art. The content is:

About CIS 120

  • Learn Microsoft word!
  • Make spreadsheets with Excel
  • Create presentations with Powerpoint
  • Edit photos with GIMP
  • Create a newsletter with Publisher
  • Learn about wikis
  • Make a logo with Inkscape

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