Administrative Assistant's and Secretary's Handbook, 5th Edition

Chapter 23

Using Microsoft Publisher

Overview of Microsoft Publisher

Microsoft Publisher is an application used for creating documents with complex formatting, such as brochures, newsletters, flyers, and websites. Publisher allows you to change such things as page size, text, graphics, and border to create professional-looking documents.

The process for creating a document includes adding and positioning blocks of text, adding images and other graphic elements, and then positioning these elements on the page to create a layout.

Like all Microsoft Office applications, Publisher features Command tabs with ribbon bars, along with a page layout area that takes up most of the screen. There are Command tabs for File, Home, Insert, Page Design, Mailings, ...