Publisher 2003 Advanced, 2nd Edition Study Guide

1-4239-1377-9 © 2007 Publish date: June 10, 2006 138 pages

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Course ID: publisher-2003-adv-2nd-sg

Do you currently use Microsoft Publisher to create simple publications? Are you ready to take your basic skills and upgrade them to advanced? If you are thinking of using computer training books to accomplish this, consider the Publisher 2003 Advanced study guide. This is a highly rated course that has earned a rating from ProCert Labs of 4.8/5.0 in overall quality.

The Microsoft Publisher training courseware builds on the concepts, techniques, and skills you learned in the basic course. In this edition, you will learn about creating newsletters, Web site design and publication, using hyperlinks, and creating hot spots. You will also learn about performing mail merges and importing data from other programs in the Microsoft Office suite.

Six units of instruction await, each dedicated to a new topic. By following the units included in the Publisher 2003 Advanced courseware and performing the hands-on activities, you will be learning advanced techniques that you can begin to incorporate into your own publications.

This self-study program puts you in the driver's seat. You can accelerate your learning or slow down the pace to match your schedule and your training needs. After completing the course, you'll find that the study guide also makes a handy reference book whenever you need to refresh your memory.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, you will know how to create newsletters, understand its components, add customer address placeholders, adjust a page's layout, apply new designs, add pages, and insert continued notices in your newsletter.

You will also learn how to create Web sites, add and delete pages, format your pages, insert Web page components including pictures, logos, borders, and background sounds, insert pre-formatted form pages, and add form pages.

The course also covers using hyperlinks and hot spots, saving Web sites in HTML format, and uploading the Web site to network servers using FTP.

Other topics in this courseware include address lists, merging publications with both Publisher address lists and data sources created in Microsoft Word, sorting recipient lists, removing recipients, filtering recipient lists, performing mail merges, and importing MS Excel worksheets and MS Word documents into a publication.

Course Contents

Unit 1 introduces newsletters

• Getting started with newsletters
• Modifying your newsletters

Unit 2 discusses designing Web sites

• Getting started with Web sites
• How to use Publisher to create Web sites
• How to modify Web sites
• Using form pages

Unit 3 covers linking Web pages

• How to create hyperlinks
• How to modify hyperlinks
• Using hot spots

Unit 4 discusses publishing Web sites

• Converting to HTML
• What are FTP and publishing Web sites

Unit 5 covers mail merge

• How to create data sources
• How to merge data sources with publications
• Sorting and filtering
• Completing and canceling mail merges

Unit 6 discusses integrating Publisher with Office 2003

• Importing from other Office applications