Publisher is a package that can sometimes be forgotten about or overlooked, with Word being most people’s first point of call for creating documents. However, sometimes Publisher comes up on top in comparison to Word and can often be easier to use for certain documents!

Here we are going to take you through some of the Publisher page sizes, publication types and templates that you can utilise to save you time and make your life a lot easier!

Page Sizes

When you first open up Publisher, the screen looks like the screen shot below. This screen will list any recent files that you have opened down the left hand side and then give you a number of options on the rest of the screen.

The most common options that are used are the ‘blank A4 (portrait)’ or the ‘blank A4 (landscape)’ but there is also the option to choose from other blank page sizes.

Under this option you can select the blank page size that you require from the selection given.

Templates

In this area you can also scroll down to have a look at the Publication Type section. Under here there are a variety of ‘blank templates’ that you can utilise to make creating your document easier (see below).

These blank document templates and sizes are really useful for saving you time when creating your documents from scratch. However, in Publisher there are also a whole bank of templates that you can use if you need a bit of inspiration for your documents!

These templates can then be personalised and edited to meet your requirements and can save a lot of time if they look similar to what you were aiming to create yourself. To get to this part of Publisher, you firstly click on to the ‘Built-In’ heading on the opening screen. This will bring up a variety of template ‘groups’ that you can choose from. As you scroll through you will be able to see the vast variety you can choose from.

So even though Word is a very powerful Microsoft Office package, Publisher can sometimes stand head and shoulders above in the more creative side.

So next time you are thinking of creating a newsletter or business card, why not give Publisher a go?

You might also like to read our previous post on Excel Symbol Meanings.

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JPL IT Training Limited have been providing Microsoft Office training for over 20 years and in that time have carried out a wide range of courses. Courses are an important way to learn new skills but to also build on the knowledge that you already know. We have a variety of set courses with agendas that we have put together, but more recently it has become more popular for companies to come to us wanting bespoke training for their staff.

Bespoke training courses allows the course notes to be tailored around the existing knowledge of the staff that would be attending. The bespoke courses that we have personally carried out for companies vary a great deal as they allow for that personalisation to their need. We can adapt the training to include a client’s own data files as well as tailor our existing content across courses to suit them.

Some examples of bespoke training courses that we have carried out are:

Overall, any of our standard courses can be tailored to suit any of the requirements that you might have. No matter what constraints you might have, we will endeavour to tailor the course to what you require.

An example of a recent course that we ran was a bespoke Excel Pivot Table and Chart half day course for a company in Warwickshire. Click here to view the agenda for the course.

We specialise in Microsoft Excel training, PowerPoint, Access, Word, Project, Visio, Outlook and Publisher training in Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Leicestershire and Warwickshire.

To speak to us further or to enquire about Bespoke Training for your company or for you as an individual, please see our contact page for ways to get in touch with us or fill in a contact form with details of what you enquire for the training.

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