To equal out the column into two columns, position your cursor at the end of the column on the last page, click PAGE LAYOUT-BREAKS-CONTINUOUS. Your column will now look like the photo below.
Friday, February 15, 2013
Balancing Uneven Columns in Word
Placing your Word file into columns is very easy in Word. Just click PAGE LAYOUT and choose COLUMNS. Once your file is placed in columns, who knows how those columns will align. If you want your columns to align at the top and the bottom of the page, you just need to know which break to insert. I want the last column (shown in the picture below) to equal out on the page.
To equal out the column into two columns, position your cursor at the end of the column on the last page, click PAGE LAYOUT-BREAKS-CONTINUOUS. Your column will now look like the photo below.
To equal out the column into two columns, position your cursor at the end of the column on the last page, click PAGE LAYOUT-BREAKS-CONTINUOUS. Your column will now look like the photo below.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Creating a Logo in Publisher
1. Open a blank Publisher document.
2. I went to INSERT-WORDART and chose something I liked for the words in my logo, changing the line and fill colors. I then went to INSERT-CLIPART and chose a piece of clipart I liked. Now we will put these together.
3. Drag your two items together so we can make the two work as one. Once you place one item on the other, you may have to play with your send backward, bring forward, as shown below on the right side of the screen, to make them work as you want (my York Dental was originally behind the giraffe and was not showing, so I clicked the giraffe and clicked the SEND BACKWARD button).
4. Now let's combine them as one by taking your mouse (hold down the left mouse key and drag the dotted marquee around the items) and surrounding the two items. It will resemble the photo below as you draw around it before you let off the left mouse key.
5. Once you let off the mouse, it will look like the photo below. Both items should now be selected. Notice how both have sizing handles shown indicating they are both active.
6. Right-mouse click on the two and click GROUP.
7. Now when you move your picture around, the two items will move as one. Right-click your new clipart and click SAVE AS PICTURE. Save as whatever you wish. Now you can insert your picture into a Word file, Publisher file, or use it in any way that you use it as any clip art file. Try inserting this file into a Word document by clicking INSERT-FILE once you open Word. If it works, you are ready to place the item in the dropbox.
2. I went to INSERT-WORDART and chose something I liked for the words in my logo, changing the line and fill colors. I then went to INSERT-CLIPART and chose a piece of clipart I liked. Now we will put these together.
3. Drag your two items together so we can make the two work as one. Once you place one item on the other, you may have to play with your send backward, bring forward, as shown below on the right side of the screen, to make them work as you want (my York Dental was originally behind the giraffe and was not showing, so I clicked the giraffe and clicked the SEND BACKWARD button).
4. Now let's combine them as one by taking your mouse (hold down the left mouse key and drag the dotted marquee around the items) and surrounding the two items. It will resemble the photo below as you draw around it before you let off the left mouse key.
5. Once you let off the mouse, it will look like the photo below. Both items should now be selected. Notice how both have sizing handles shown indicating they are both active.
6. Right-mouse click on the two and click GROUP.
7. Now when you move your picture around, the two items will move as one. Right-click your new clipart and click SAVE AS PICTURE. Save as whatever you wish. Now you can insert your picture into a Word file, Publisher file, or use it in any way that you use it as any clip art file. Try inserting this file into a Word document by clicking INSERT-FILE once you open Word. If it works, you are ready to place the item in the dropbox.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
No PRTSC button on your keyboard?
Some of you may not have a PRTSC (print screen) button on your laptop, and you're asking why you really need one. Well, since our 205 class is now blogging for the semester, screen shots that demonstrate what you are writing about will be helpful (a picture is worth a thousand words). If you don't have a PRTSC button, screen shots may be difficult to capture. In Windows 7, you can use an on-screen keyboard (screen shot below). You may need to size it or move it around to capture the shot you want, but it's a simple way to obtain your screen shot. The steps are:
- Click your office button from your desktop (lower left screen for most of us)
- Type on-screen keyboard in the box that says SEARCH PROGRAMS AND FILES
- Click the on-screen keyboard when it appears in the list
- Once you have the screen shot you want (you may have to move the on-screen keyboard around or make it smaller to get the screen shot you want), press the PRT SCN button then go to Word or another program and paste (CTRL+V) it there. You can right-mouse click on the screen shot and choose SAVE AS PICTURE. You can then upload that picture into your blog.
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