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31 Create Colorful

Cards and

Calendars

In this chapter, you will learn how to

✔ Create folded cards.

✔ Create postcards.

✔ Create calendars.

Cards and calendars can be among the easiest publications to produce. Microsoft

Publisher 2010 provides dozens of attractive templates from which you can create and

personalize these items, perhaps to send to friends or clients. However, if you intend to

distribute a lot of them, you might need to do some advance planning. Several of the

decisions you need to make before creating cards and calendars for large-scale distri-

bution revolve around the cost, in time and money, of printing the final product.

In this chapter, we discuss issues such as layout, color, paper, printing, and mailing, while

showing you how to produce a folded card, a postcard, and three types of calendars.

You also learn how to save time when creating a multipage publication by applying

formatting to the underlying master page.

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 Chapter31 practice file folder. A complete list of practice

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

    Contents

31 Create Colorful

Cards and

Calendars 949

Creating Folded Cards................................................... 950

Choosing a Design or Layout......................................... 950

Changing the Color Scheme......................................... 951

Using Non–Color-Scheme Colors..................................... 952

Choosing Text...................................................... 952

Creating Postcards....................................................... 963

Using Mail Merge.................................................. 963

Using Catalog Merge............................................... 964

Creating Calendars...................................................... 974

Adding Captions, Credits, and Copyrights............................. 974

Changing Page Backgrounds......................................... 975

Working with Master Pages.......................................... 975

Key Points.............................................................. 984