Hannah
Digital Literacy Specialist
Microsoft Publisher 2016:
Create a Flyer
• A desktop publishing program
• Can be used to create a variety of documents
– Newsletters
– Cards
– Brochures
– Certificates
– Flyers
– Business cards
– Many more!
What is Publisher?
• Publisher is an object based program—you move objects
around the workspace to produce a publication.
• A program like MS Word is linear—you type letter after
letter, word after word, paragraph after paragraph to
produce a document.
How is Publisher
different from other
MS Office programs?
• Lynda.com (login via library website) search for:
“Publisher 2016 Essential Training”
• MS Office Website
http://tinyurl.com/msofficepublisher
• GCF Learn Free
https://www.gcflearnfree.org/publisher2010/
• Gale Courses (login via library website) search for:
“Introduction to Microsoft Publisher 2013”
• For information about Creative Commons licensing,
visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses
Where to learn more:
• We’ll view a portion of a Lynda.com video to quickly
review the Publisher 2016 interface.
Publisher Review
The Publisher
Workspace Review
The Ribbon
Page View
The Workspace
Rulers and Guides
Rulers
Guides
In this class, we will:
1. Adapt a template
2. Create a flyer from scratch
3. Create a template
Activities
• First, let’s switch
over to the fill list
of built-in
Publisher
templates.
• Scroll through and
select “Quick
Publications”
• Select “Blocks”
Getting started
with Templates
• You have several options to adapt
a template before you start:
• Choose a pre-set color scheme
• Change the font for the whole
publication
• Insert your personal or business
information
• Layout and page size options
Adapting
Templates
Create a Flyer Activity
• You can also
create your own
personalized
templates
• You can save a
Publisher file as a
template to reuse
by going to the File
Tab and selecting
“Save As”
• In the “Save As”
menu, change the
file type from
Publisher Files to
Publisher Template.
• You can also use
this option to save
to an older version
of publisher.
Saving as a Template
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