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Formatting Publications / Headers and Footers




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In this movie, let's continuing formatting our entire publication by looking at headers and footers. Headers and footers are at the top and the bottom of the pages. They're identifying information, so that people know if there's more than one page to your document, that it's consistent across there and people know that all of these things flow together. Even it's just one page, it's identifying information for your company, for your family, anything like that so people know where it came from and possibly who created it. So what we're going to do is insert a blank page at the end of our document. I'm going to click the more button, tell it that I want one page and I want it blank. I'm going to click OK and there's my blank page. Again, as a quick review, this gray area around the edge is the scratch area. Those are some extra things that I've added that I can use anytime I want. I'm going to zoom in here a little bit. You'll see our top and our bottom of our page. Nothing there. If we want to add a header and a footer, we just go to view, header and footer and see how it zoomed in there for us? You'll see the header and footer toolbar. If you don't see that, possibly look around your screen. Sometimes they don't pop up right in the center for you. What I can do here is insert the page number. I can type page and hit the number. That means it's automatically going to number those pages for me. I can hit the tab key and you'll notice that takes me to the center automatically. So if you tab over, I can insert the date if I want to or I can insert the time. Then I can tab again and I can insert anything that I want. I can just put in there Publisher 2007 and include that within my header. You can type anything you want or you could use what Publisher has. The last button on the header footer toolbar is how you switch between those items. If I click that, now I'm in the footer and again, I can type anything that I want to and have that information in there. Tab takes me to the center, tab again takes me to the right-hand side. So use those options. You don't have to use both of them and you can just put something in the center if you want to. I can highlight that text. I can change the font and the size of it if I want to. Some of those items may be more important than others, so you can do that. So go ahead and highlight it, change it to whatever you want it to be. Something real important, maybe even change the color so it really stands out. One other thing that you can do, you can put a graphic inside there. I'm going to switch back to my footer. I'm going to go to insert, picture, from file. I'm going to grab a logo here, shrink it down and you can put that inside your footer or your header. They have to be pretty small. Most of them aren't going to do the greatest, but you can put those in there. It works really well if you do the company name inside the header or footer. Take that part out of the logo and put that in there so that way you maintain the consistency. Alright. We've looked at all the ways you can format publications and work with those pages as a whole. Take some time to go in there and create the headers and footers that you will consistently use throughout your publications.

Tutorial Information

Course: Microsoft Publisher 2007
Author: Melanie Hedgespeth
SKU: 33856
ISBN: 1-934743-57-7
Release Date: 2008-03-06
Duration: 7.5 hrs / 105 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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