COMPUTER FORM 4 TOPIC 4: DESKTOP PUBLISHING

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Add or replace a symbol or fraction

  • In your publication, do one of the following:
    • Click inside a text box or table cell where you want to add a symbol.
    • Select the symbol or fraction you want to replace.

     

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  • On the Insert menu, click Symbol.
  • Select the settings you want from the Font and Subset lists.
  • Click the symbol you want, click Insert, and then click Close

 

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PARAGRAPH FORMATTING

Keep text or paragraphs together

You can control how Publisher breaks paragraphs between connected text boxes or columns.

Keep lines of paragraph together in a text box or column

  1. Select the paragraphs that contain the lines you want to keep together.
  2. On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then click the Line and Paragraph Breaks tab.
  3. Select the Keep lines together check box.

 

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Keep paragraphs together in a text box or column

  1. Select the paragraph you want to keep with the next one in a text box.
  2. On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then click the Line and Paragraph Breaks tab.
  3. Select the Keep with next check box.

 

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Make a paragraph start in the next box

  1. Select the paragraphs you want to start in the next text box.
  2. On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then click the Line and Paragraph Breaks tab.
  3. Select the Start in next text box check box.

 

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Control widow and orphan lines

Widows and orphans are single lines of text in a paragraph that print at the top or bottom of a text box or column. You can choose to avoid separating these lines from the rest of the paragraph.

  1. Select the paragraphs for which you want to prevent widows and orphans.
  2. On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then click the Line and Paragraph Breaks tab.
  3. Select the Widow/Orphan control check box.

 

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BULLETS AND TABS

Automatically add bullets to list

  1. On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect Options.
  2. Click the AutoFormat As You Type tab.
  3. Select the Automatic bulleted lists box

 

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Change bullets or numbers in list

Change the look of bullets

  1. Select the entire list.
  2. On the Format menu, click Bullets and Numbering, and then click the Bullets tab.
  3. Click Character.
  4. Click the character you want, and then click OK.

 

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If you don’t see the character you want, select a different font from the Font list, and then click a character.

Change the look of numbers

  1. Select the entire list.
  2. On the Format menu, click Bullets and Numbering, and then click the Numbering tab.
  3. Click the arrow to the right of the Format box, and then click a format.
  4. In the Separator box, click a separator.
  5. In the Start at box, enter the number you want to begin the list.
  6. Click OK.

 

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Change the color of a number or a bullet

  1. If you cannot see the paragraph marker at the end of each line in the list, on the View menu, click Special Characters.
  2. Select the paragraph marker at the end of the line for which you want to change the bullet or number.
  3. On the Format menu, click Font.
  4. Under General, click the arrow next to Color.
  5. Click the color you want.

 

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To see more choices, click More Colors, and then click the color you want.

  1. Click OK.

 

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Change the color of all the numbers or bullets

It may be faster to retype your list using this procedure rather than changing the color for each number or bullet, as above.

  1. In the text box, type a space at the beginning of a new line, and then press ENTER.
  2. If you cannot see the paragraph marker you just created by pressing ENTER, on the View menu, click Special Characters.
  3. Select the paragraph marker.
  4. On the Format menu, click Font.
  5. Under General, click the arrow next to Color.
  6. Click the color you want for all the bullets or numbers in the list.

 

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To see more choices, click More Colors, and then click the color you want.

  1. Click OK.
  2. Click at the beginning of the line, just to the left of the space you typed, so that no character is selected.
  3. On the Formatting toolbar, click Bullets or Numbering.
  4. Type your list, pressing ENTER at the end of each bulleted or numbered item.

 

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The bullets and numbers will be the color you chose, while the other text retains its original color.

Change list indents

  1. Select the list.
  2. On the Format menu, click Bullets and Numbering, and then click the Bullets or Numbering tab.
  3. In the Indent list by box, type or select the amount of indentation you want.
  4. Click OK.
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