Creating a Custom Publication from Scratch
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Chapter 4: Creating a Custom Publication from Scratch: 4-14c Apply Your Knowledge Book Title: The Shelly Cashman Series Collection Printed By: Latrice Reaves (lreaves2532@yorktech.edu) © 2018 Cengage Learning, Cengage Learning
Review
4-14c Apply Your Knowledge
Reinforce the skills and apply the concepts you learned in this module.
Customizing for a Business
Note: To complete this assignment, you will be required to use the Data Files. Please contact your instructor for information about accessing the Data Files.
Instructions: Run Publisher. You are to create a page size, color scheme, font scheme, and building block for Boxes Galore, a local shipping and packing business. You produce the rack card publication shown in Figure 4-77.
Figure 4-77
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Courtesy of Joy Starks
Perform the following tasks:
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Click the Blank 8.5 × 11 template.
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To create a custom page size:
Click the ‘Choose Page Size’ button (Page Design tab | Page Setup group) and then click ‘Create New Page Size’ on the Choose Page Size menu. In the Name text box (Create New Page Size dialog box), type Boxes Galore to name the custom size.
Click the Layout type button and then click ‘One page per sheet’.
Set the width to 4 and the height to 8.5.
One at a time, select the text in each of the four Margin guides text boxes and type 0.25 to change the margins on each side of the publication
Click the OK button to save the page size and margins.
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To create a custom color scheme:
Click the More button (Page Design tab | Schemes group) and then click ‘Create New Color Scheme’.
Type Boxes Galore in the Color scheme name text box (Create New Color Scheme dialog box).
In the Scheme colors area, click the New button next to the Accent 1 and then click Orange.
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Click the Accent 2, New button, and then click Sky Blue.
Click the Save button without changing any of the other colors.
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To create a custom font scheme:
Click the Scheme Fonts button (Page Design tab | Schemes group) and then click ‘Create New Font Scheme’.
Type Boxes Galore in the Font scheme name text box (Create New Font Scheme dialog box).
Select Arial as the heading font and Arial Rounded MT Bold as the body font.
Click the Save button without changing any of the other colors.
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Click the Background button (Page Design tab | Page Background group). Click ‘Accent 2 Vertical Gradient’ in the Background gallery.
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To create the heading:
Draw a text box across the top of the publication, snapping it to the left, top, and right margins. Make the text box approximately 1.4 inches tall.
Change the font size to 36. Click the Center and Bold buttons (Home tab | Font group). Type Boxes and then press the ����� key. Type Galore to finish the text.
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Select the text and then click the Stylistic Sets button (Text Box Tools Format tab | Typography group). Choose the second stylistic set.
Click the Font Color arrow (Home tab | Font group) and then click Fill Effects.
Click Gradient fill (Format Shape dialog box).
In the Gradient fill area, click the Preset gradients button and then click the ‘Path Gradient - Accent 1’ (Preset gradients gallery). Click the Direction button and then click From Center (Direction gallery).
Click the OK button to close the dialog box.
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Create a text box in the center of the rack card, approximately 3.5 inches tall and snapped to the right and left margin guides. Format it as follows:
Set the font size to 18. Click the Line spacing button (Home tab | Paragraph group) and set the line spacing to 1.5.
Click the Bullets button (Home tab | Paragraph group). Click the Character button and then choose the Segoe UI Symbol font. Search for a scissors graphic or enter the character code 2700.
Change the size to 14pt.
Insert the bulleted text as shown in Figure 4-77.
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Create a text box in the lower right portion of the rack card and enter the address and phone number shown in Figure 4-77.
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If instructed to do so, change the address and phone number to your address and phone number.
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Click the Online Pictures button (Insert tab | Illustrations group). Insert a picture of boxes similar to the one shown in Figure 4-77. If necessary, use the ‘Set a Transparent Color’ command in the Recolor gallery (Picture Tools Format tab | Adjust group) to remove any white background. Resize and position the graphic as necessary. Click the Corrections button (Picture Tools Format tab | Adjust group) and choose an appropriate correction. Right-click the edited graphic and save it as a building block named Boxes Galore. Use appropriate key words.
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From the Data Files, insert the picture named, Apply 4-1 Bubble Wrap. Use the rotation handle to rotate the box to approximately . Resize, position, and send the graphic backward as necessary.
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Save the file with the file name, Apply 4-1 Boxes Galore, and submit it in the format required by your instructor.
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For extra credit, create a second page that will print on the back of the rack card. Insert a coupon for free bubble wrap with the next shipped
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package.
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Delete all customizations as described in the module.
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Would adding more orange to the rack card reinforce the company colors or add to the look and feel of the rack card? How? What would you do differently?
Chapter 4: Creating a Custom Publication from Scratch: 4-14c Apply Your Knowledge Book Title: The Shelly Cashman Series Collection Printed By: Latrice Reaves (lreaves2532@yorktech.edu) © 2018 Cengage Learning, Cengage Learning
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