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 Getting Started:
To Begin, click on the start menu icon on
the bottom, left hand side of your screen

Scroll down until you see Microsoft Office,

Click on it, and find Microsoft Publisher 2010.
Click to Open.

Next, click on All Programs

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 Publisher opens to a
Page Design screen.

This page is where you

can locate various
template designs for a
multitude of business
and personal needs.

We are going to begin

with a simple flyer.

Please click on the

Flyers icon.

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 Click on the
All Marketing icon

Next, scroll down the list of

templates until you find the
template named, Book Sale,
under the Other header.

Once the template is selected, click

the Create icon on the lower, right
hand side of the screen
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 When you open your template, the
image below is what your workspace should look like

This flyer is being designed to advertise

a Book Sale at the Mid York Library System

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 When using a Publisher template, you can personalize your materials with your
businesses’ colors, by changing the font (typeface, color, size, etc.) and adding in a logo.

Or you can simply edit the placeholder text to create an effective, yet quick product.

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 To change the business
information on the flyer, click on
File at the upper, left hand corner.

Next, under Info,

click on
Edit Business Information

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 Begin typing in your organization’s
information in the Under
For Individual name, Create New Business Information Set. Business
type in the name of Information set
the contact person name,
for the event. type in Book Sale

Under
Job position or title, Under
type in the title of Tagline or motto,
the contact person type in The
listed above. Information Experts

Under Organization,
type in: Mid York
Library System.

The Address line Under Phone, fax and e-mail, type in the Then, click the
should include the phone number where the contact person can Change button to
street address, city, be reached, as well as the company’s fax insert the
state, and zip code number and the email for the event, whether organization’s logo
it be a personal email account, or in this case,
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 To find the logo to
implement into your
template design, click
on Documents.

Then, click on
Publisher
Image Files.

In that folder will be a

JPEG file, entitled
Mid York Logo.
Double-click on that file.
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 Click Save on the Create New
Business Information Set window

Then, click Update Publication

After updating the publication,

you will be returned to the screen
as shown to the right.
Click File to close that screen and
return to your publication.
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 When you return to
your publication, you
will see where
the information you
typed into the
Create New Business
Information Set
window has been
added in.
Organization name
and Address

Phone number,
Logo Fax Number and
Contact Email

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Changing the Color Theme of Your Publication Using Preset Color Schemes

At the top of your Publication’s

page, click on the Page Design tab. Click on the color
scheme entitled Teal .

You can scroll through the different color palettes to decide which one
best suits the purpose, or theme, of your publication.
For the purposes of this lesson, we will use the Teal color scheme, as it has the
same colors as the Mid York logo that we just inserted into our publication.

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 After applying the Teal color scheme, it is time to insert your event’s
information into the appropriate placeholder text areas

Place your cursor over the text, 00/00/00, and click. This will highlight the area
of the text that you need to change.

Once this is highlighted, you can begin typing in the correct Date information.

Type in 06/24/2011 where you highlighted.

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 Repeat the same steps
to highlight and
change the time.

Once highlighted, type

in 2:00pm

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 Using Placeholder Text to Write Event Descriptions

In most templates, placeholder text is used to give you visual cues as to where you can
place important information in a visually pleasing way –
Another benefit of templates is that the placeholder text often describes how
and what you should write about the event.

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 Click on the paragraph of text in the top,
right hand corner of the publication.

Type the following in the

highlighted area:

Come support your local

library by shopping from
our huge selection of
discarded books. Books
range in price from 50
cents to $1.00 and
all proceeds go towards
the purchase of new
eBook titles for all 43 of
our member libraries!

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 Click on the next paragraph of text.

Type the following in the

highlighted area (hitting the
Enter key after each line):

Children’s Books
Large Picture Books
Popular Fiction Titles
Cookbooks and Craft Books
Much, Much More!

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 Click on the next paragraph of text.

Type the following in the

highlighted area:

For more information about the

Mid York Library System or the
Book Sale, check out our website
at www.midyork.org

The Book Sale will be held at:

*Whenever creating a flyer for a

business /organization, it is
always a good idea to provide a
website where people who may
be unfamiliar with it can find out
more information*
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 Spell-Checking Your Document
It is always a good idea to do a Spell-check on any documents where you have edited or added in text.

Click on the
Review Tab
at the top of your Publisher
Window and then click
Spelling

If a word is spelled incorrectly, the Check Spelling window

will pop up with suggested changes. In this case, Support is
the correct change:
Click Support and Change

When all misspelled words have been

corrected, or if there were no misspellings,
this window will pop up. Click OK

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 This is what your finished Book Sale Flyer should look like:

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 Text Editing Basics:
Creating a Personalized Certificate
of Completion

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 Text Editing Basics: Typefaces, Sizing and Paragraph Alignment
All the tools you will need to create and edit any publication in Publisher are at the top
of your workspace, starting from the top left hand side with the File tab.

To edit Text and Paragraphs, you will use the Home tab.

You can change the paragraph

alignment by clicking on:
Left Center Right or Justified

This is where you can

choose your typeface,
or font. Here, you can change
the size of the text
B will make your text Bold, or
appear thicker and darker Is where you can
change the color of your text
I will make your text Italic, or slanted.

U underlines the text

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 Creating a New File
In the Publisher window,
click on File in the top,
left hand corner.

Then, click New

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 Click on Award Certificates

Then, at the right hand side of

the Templates window,
under where it says, Customize,
click on the Color Schemes box
and scroll down until you find the
Teal Color Scheme. Click on that.

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 Find the template named,
Appreciation 7.
Click on it

Then, click Create

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 This is what your beginning Template should look like:

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 Click on the text,
Certificate of Appreciation,
to highlight

Delete the current text and type:

Certificate of Completion

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 Highlight the text,
Certificate of Completion

Then, in the
Upper, Left Hand Corner
of the window,
click on the Home tab

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 Click on the Font Name in your
Home toolbox – a drop-down
menu will appear with all of your
computers loaded fonts.

Change the Font to

Perpetua Titling MT and in
the Font Size box, type in 34.

Then, click on the Bold button

to increase the Font’s thickness.

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 Click in the text box,
This Certificate is Awarded to

Place your cursor over

the highlighted text
box until a vertical
arrow appears ( ).
Then, click and pull the
text box up to make
the text box bigger

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 Click on the Font Menu and scroll
down until you find Perpetua.
Click on that font.

Then, change the font size to 24 in

the Font Size Menu

Next, click in the text box,

Name of Recipient

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 Type in Your Name.

Then, highlight Your Name.

Just as we did with the

“this certificate is awarded to”
text box (slide 30), enlarge the
text box with Your Name in it.

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 Change the Font to Perpetua
Titling MT and the Font Size to 26

To make Your Name stand out,

click on the
Bold button
and the
Underline button.

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 To move the text box with Your Name in
it, click on the outline of the text box so
that you see a Quad Arrow ( )

Then, use the Up Arrow on your keyboard

to move the text box up. Pressing the Up
Arrow about 20 times will place the text
box in the right position.

Next, click on the text box

below Your Name.

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 Once again, follow the
instructions (used on
slide 30 and 32) to
increase the size of
the text box.

Then, to insert new

text, either Delete the
current text, or
highlight it and begin
typing over it.

Change the current

text to read:
For successfully
completing two hours
of instruction in
Microsoft Publisher
2010 on June 24, 2011

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 Change the Font to Perpetua and the Font Size to 16.

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 Don’t forget to Spell-Check your document as we did in slide 19

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This is what your finished Certificate of Completion should look like:

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Congratulations!
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 This training session was developed for the Public Computing Center (PCC)
and Mobile Public Computing Center (mPCC) at Mid York Library System.
The PCC and mPCC are funded by two Broadband Technology Opportunity
Program (BTOP) grants. These grants are part of $9.5 million that was
awarded to the New York State Library, a unit of the Office of Cultural
Education within the New York State Education Department (NYSED) by the
U.S. Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and
Information Administration (NTIA) in order to increase access to computers
in public libraries across New York State. Funding for this award is being
provided by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA)
Broadband Technology Opportunities Program.

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