Publisher 2016

Explore how Microsoft Publisher structures multi-page publications like magazines and brochures with adjustable margins and sections, while letting you drag and arrange elements for flexible, design-focused layouts.

Explore the publisher interface by navigating the ribbon's home and insert tabs, learning object-based design with text boxes and images, and managing pages.

Choose publication type and dimensions in Publisher, then create a document with layouts for booklets or advertisements, using placeholders for future pictures and text.

Insert and organize text in Publisher by drawing text boxes, creating a title box, and planning two-column layouts to place text inside publication objects.

Insert and manage images to enhance your publication by using the insert tab to add pictures from your computer, online sources, or placeholders, while mastering layering, resizing, and alignment.

Explore how to use Publisher templates to quickly create polished publications, customize color schemes and fonts, insert content, and apply built-in templates for newsletters and brochures.

Explore document views in Publisher 2016, switching between normal and master page views, using single or two-page spreads, and enabling rulers, guides, and page width for precise layout.

Master zoom techniques in Publisher to inspect layouts and edit text with precision. Navigate page width, whole page, 100%, 800%, or 10% magnification via zoom controls or the ctrl+mouse wheel.

Explore how to control document layout in Publisher by adjusting paper size, orientation, margins, and grid guides, including creating two-column layouts and aligning content with guides.

Adjust the document setup in Publisher 2016 using the page setup to change dimensions, margins, and layout, and switch to formats like booklet or multiple pages per sheet.

Navigate the page pane from the view tab to add, duplicate, reorder, and delete pages, using insert page options and right-click shortcuts, and learn about master pages later.

Learn how to create and use master pages in Publisher 2016 to publish consistent headers, logos, and text across all pages, with multiple masters and easy editing.

Learn text selection techniques in Publisher 2016, including click-and-drag, double-click for a word, triple-click for a paragraph, and Shift or Ctrl arrow-key shortcuts to refine selections for formatting.

Explore text box options in Publisher 2016, including contextual tabs, auto fit, margins, vertical alignment, hyphenation, columns, and linking text boxes for continued on or from pages.

Learn how to link text boxes in Publisher to overflow text across boxes when the size is insufficient, using the create link to continue text on the next page.

Discover how spell check flags errors with red underlines, offers quick fixes, and can be accessed via right-click, the review tab, or the f7 shortcut.

Learn how to use find and replace in publisher to locate a word, match whole words and casing, and replace instances, including replace all, as shown replacing contextual with optional.

Resize images using corner handles to preserve proportions, or adjust with side handles for nonproportional edits, then crop to isolate elements with the crop tool and undo if needed.

Explore the publisher picture tools format contextual tab to adjust brightness and contrast and apply recolor options. Set transparency, compress images, and add captions to tailor publication design.

Wrap text around an image using options like square, tight, top and bottom, or through, and adjust the image size and shape to control the wrap.

insert shapes in publisher 2016 by selecting shapes from the insert menu, then click to insert or click and drag to resize; hold shift to make proportional squares and circles.

Learn to modify shapes by resizing with handles, rotating, and using yellow diamond modifiers to adjust specific portions, while adding text inside shapes.

Use change shape to swap a shape while keeping your text and formatting. Open drawing tools, choose change shape, and pick a new shape (banner or arrow) without altering dimensions.

Align, stack, and group objects to create balanced layouts, apply top alignment and vertical distribution for equal spacing, and control stacking with bring forward and send to back.

Learn to select and move shapes using the lasso tool, shift and control, and the select all command; duplicate by holding control and dragging, and nudge with arrow keys.

Highlight text to access a formatting ribbon for font size, type, color, and emphasis, and resize text boxes. Use the format painter to reuse styles across headings and body text.

Transform your documents with paragraph formatting in Publisher 2016. Align text, control hyphenation, line and paragraph spacing, and column layouts, then apply formats with the Format Painter.

Apply style-based objects and scheme options to create uniformity across your publication, using page parts like sidebars, stories, borders, and calendars.

Create and apply custom color and font schemes in Publisher 2016, customizing main color, accents, hyperlinks, and headings and body fonts, with live previews and easy saving for reuse.

Apply color to shapes and text boxes in Publisher 2016 by using drawing tools, shape fill, and color schemes, with options for gradient, texture, patterns, or pictures.

learn to create and place tables in a publication to organize data or objects, using quick 3x3 or 5x5 tables, and then move and resize them.

Learn to adjust table layout by adding or deleting rows and columns, inserting above or below, and merging cells for a title row, plus control alignment, text direction, and margins.

Explore table formatting in Publisher 2016 by using the Design tab to apply format styles, adjust fonts, fill and line colors, borders, highlighting, and WordArt for tables or individual cells.

Open the backstage print options from the file menu and view print preview. Select printers, pages to print, paper size, color or black and white, and save settings.

Export a Publisher publication to PDF using save as or export, selecting PDF and saving. Explore using PDF creation software add-ins or built-in options to generate a PDF.