Microsoft Office Professional 2010 Step by Step eBook

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30 Create Visual Interest

In this chapter, you will learn how to

✔ Work with text boxes.

✔ Work with WordArt.

✔ Work with graphics.

✔ Work with shapes.

✔ Work with ready-made visual elements.

Microsoft Publisher 2010 is specifically designed to make it easy to create publications that

contain a mixture of text and visual elements arranged on the page. Knowing basic tech-

niques for inserting and manipulating visual elements such as photographs, illustrations,

and decorative images is key to quickly assembling impressive publications.

Publications are most effective when you achieve a balance of text and graphics that is

appropriate for your purpose. Some publications convey information through text and

include visual elements only to catch the reader’s eye or to reinforce or illustrate a point.

At the other end of the scale, some publications include almost no text and instead rely

on visual elements to carry the message.

In this chapter, you’ll first create a text object and see how to enhance the text with

color and formatting. Then you’ll use WordArt to create fancy, stylized text for those

occasions when regular formatting doesn’t quite meet your needs. Next, you’ll insert

clip art graphics and pictures, add borders, and change the size, color, and position of

the images. You’ll draw, connect, and group shapes. Finally, you’ll insert ready-made

design elements from the Building Block Library.

Practice Files Before you can complete the exercises in this chapter, you need to copy

the book’s practice files to your computer. The practice files you’ll use to complete the

exercises in this chapter are in the Chapter30 practice file folder. A complete list of practice

files is provided in “Using the Practice Files” at the beginning of this book.

    Contents

30 Create Visual

Interest 899

Working with Text Boxes................................................. 900

Manipulating Text Boxes............................................ 900

Formatting Text for Visual Impact.................................... 901

Working with WordArt................................................... 908

Working with Graphics................................................... 919

Working with Shapes.................................................... 931

Manipulating Shapes................................................ 931

Connecting and Grouping Shapes.................................... 932

Working with Ready-Made Visual Elements................................. 940

Key Points.............................................................. 947