Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Word Desktop Publishing

Steps to a perfect Desktop Publishing document.

  1. Type your document
  2. Layout your grid (choose columns and spacing, or table)
  3. Format the text
  4. Format the paragraphs
  5. Add text boxes where required for special effects (example: pull quotes, rotated text)

Kerning won't center.

  1. Do not include the last character when kerning a word. It must line up perfectly on the right margin.



Make a template:

  1. Convert any document to a template by changing it's extension from .DOC to .DOT in windows explorer.
  2. Just double click this template to create a new document. Right Mouse button to edit it. To add it to your other templates, open it and save as template.

No comments: