Tips for Microsoft Publisher 2003

Go to the Arrange menu and select Layout

Check Create Two Backgrounds With Mirrored Guides

Click OK

Go to the View menu and select Go to Background

Add the elements you want on your background. If you want to copy an element, hold down Control and drag the element to where you want it

Once you're happy with the position of your elements, go to the View menu and Go to Foreground

Go to the Tools menu and select Design Checker

To check for specific problems, click Options, then click Check selected features and choose what you want to search for

Select the pages you’d like to check and click OK

When Design Checker finds a problem you can either fix the problem and continue, or choose to ignore it

Click OK when the check is complete.

Click the Design Gallery Object icon on the Objects toolbar

Look through the categories and choose your element

Click Insert

Size and position the element on the page

Click the element

Go to the Insert menu and select Add Selection to Design Gallery

Give the element a name and specify its category

Click OK

Go to the Format menu and select Color Schemes

Click the Custom Color Scheme tab in the dialog box

Click the arrow for the colour you want to change

Select a new colour. If the colour you want isn't there, click More Colors

Do this for the other colours in the scheme

When you’ve finished click Save Scheme

Click OK twice

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