How to make a Border in Publisher

One of the great things about sending out a company newsletter, mailings, flyers, or posters is the ability to consistently use the same colors and patterns to make your brand more recognizable to the public.

One way to do this is by using borders. With publisher you can create borders and adjust the color scheme. Getting your message out there while branding your business has never been easier.

I used a blank document in publisher to create a "How To" Flyer to explain how to create a border.

Using the Internet

The Internet is a crazy thing! You can find just about anything on the world wide web. Let the Internet be your tool to learning. There are a lot of great places to ask questions and get answers as we are learning publisher.



A simple google search of any particular Publisher question you may have can lead you to hundreds of results. ehow.com typically seems to come up high the the search results. Here is a page from ehow explaining how you can use Publisher Help to answer your questions. And this is a step by step guide to working with objects such as text boxes.



Believe it or not, another great resources on the Internet is YouTube. There are countless tutorial videos on the website to help people learn how to do anything and everything. This is a great example of how to get started creating a newsletter using Publisher. Check it out

Don't forget; anyone could post anything on the Internet! Be careful of the advice you take!!

You're not alone

Microsoft just released Office 2010. That last version was released in 2007, so there are a lot of people transitioning from the older version to the new. This is great news for the novice beginner because Microsoft's website currently has pages dedicated to showing off how to use the new product.

It's new to everyone, so it's good to know we aren't alone out there!

This page will give you a list of new features in Publisher Just click on any of the topics for a more in depth look.

As a beginner I am finding the Basic Tasks in Publisher 2010 link to be extremely helpful. When you click on this option it will bring you to page with other links explaining what I think are some of the most important steps to knowing how to use Publisher. The links on this page will cover everything from opening an new document, using templates), and saving your work. If you are familiar with other Microsoft software, especially Word, you will realize that these features are very similar. Pay close attention to Insert a text box and Insert and crop images. These are step my step instructions to doing both. Text boxes are going to play an important part in keeping your project looking clean. Using images that are well sized to fit your work will help make your project look professional.

Download Publisher

I just started a new job, and have to learn Microsoft Publisher to design our newsletter. My first reaction was "Oh great! I'm awful with design programs!" But from what I hear Publisher is very basic and easy to use.

Let's learn together!

My computer at work has Microsoft Office with Publisher; on my home computer I have a less entailed version of Office that does not include Publisher. Since I want to play around with it in my free time get a better understanding of how the program works I downloaded a free trial. The trial is available on Microsoft's website.

Now we're ready to start learning!