Hello and welcome to the Publisher 2019 course.
Understanding the screen layout of Publisher is paramount to mastering
the program.
So what we're going to do is just kind of tour the scratch area, the rulers,
ribbons, the status bar tools, just to give you an idea what you need to look for
while you're working inside Publisher.
As you can see at the top in the green, and
I really like the color of green background up here, we've got ribbons.
The Home, the Insert, Page, Design, Mailings, Review, View,
of course the Help ribbon, and the very front one if the File ribbon.
When you first open up Publisher,
you're going to see something that looks like this.
These are all the base level templates that are available.
And then of course to get to the program, you'll just double click the blank one and
it'll open right up.
I've already got the blank one on my screen, but go ahead and
click on the Home ribbon.
Now of course the Home ribbon is full of buttons,
we'll be reviewing these ribbons individually throughout the course, but
I do also want you to notice the other areas of the screen.
Take a look right above the ribbon, this is called the quick access toolbar.
We will have a lesson specifically on setting up special buttons on that one.
Over here we have the title, we are on Publication1, and
the software I'm using is Publisher.
We have our sign in in case you want to share whatever it is you're designing up
to your OneDrive.
We have the question mark which means help, the minimize, the maximize, and
a close which turns a bright, and I do like that.
Please pay attention to the tool bar on the right hand side
where I can scroll up and down.
And notice the double up and the double down arrows right below that,
that jumps me from page one to page two in a flash.
I really love those buttons.
They used to have that Microsoft Word, they've taken that away.
I want them back.
All right, right over here we have the Zoom control, so I can move these little
levers, I can hit the plus sign, maybe I just want to go to whole page.
So there's a little button in the corner when I float my mouse that says
Show Whole Page.
I can do that.
And please notice also we have a couple buttons next to it.
One says two page spread, and this of course is single page spread,
while I only has one page so that's all I can see at this point.
Let's take focus on that status bar at the bottom, right over here.
We have an object size.
If you click that,
it will actually show you the size of the object you are clicked on.
I have no object right there, but this is a wonderful tool when we do begin to work
on our objects just to get a quick size measurement.
And we also have this little button.
When I float my mouse,
it says object position, which of course means you can move it around.
And of course that object size comes right back, and
right over here it says page one of one.
Now take a look at this panel, this is our pages panel.
This is on the View ribbon, so
when I click View, I can turn off all kinds of buttons here, okay.
Now the page navigation, turn it off, turn it on.
I love my page navigation on, so I always have mine on.
The scratch area simply means the grey area around the background.
I always want my scratch area available so I can lay little pictures out here,
and then when I'm ready to use them I can pull them in.
So this is not unused background, this is called the scratch area.
Think of it as your unused desktop of the desk you're sitting at.
Rulers, absolutely mandatory to have your rulers on.
And then our guides, I love my guides and my guides are always on because that
shows me the margins and the margin area around my document that I'm working on.
All right, that's a base level screen overview.
I'm going to end here on the Home ribbon.
And we're going to talk in depth on these ribbons.
You just got to know the important buttons on here
in order to be incredibly successful with Publisher and get your work done quickly.
So all right on to the next lesson.