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PageMaker Course Outline

Lesson 1
The basics.
Tools, Menu commands, and Dialog boxes
Measurement palette, Document layout palette, Library palette

Lesson 2
Working with documents.
Customize default settings and preferences
Create, modify, and arrange document pages
Master pages (Automaticpage numbers)
Copy items and pages between documents

Lesson 3
Working with text.
Create, edit, and import text from other programs
Tabs and indents, Style Sheets
Search-and-replace text, character attributes, and fonts

Lesson 4
Working with pictures.
Import artwork created in other programs
Modify the frame and background of a picture box
Change the pictureís scale, skew, and rotation

Lesson 5
How to precisely control the placement and look of type
Leading methods
Initial caps and drop caps
Tracking and kerning, Baseline shift

Lesson 6
Integrate various page elements:
text boxes, picture boxes, and lines
Text inset, Vertical alignment
Stacking order of objects, Ruler guides, Reshaping boxes
Repeating and aligning items, Grouping, Rotating
Labeling Library palette entries, Runarounds
Anchoring boxes to text and anchoring rules to text
Linking text boxes

Lesson 7
The print dialog box.

Lesson 8
The Color palette.
Painting frames, backgrounds, text, and imported pictures

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