Worksheet 7:- Creating a Certificate.
Open MS Publisher and select Publications By Wizard. Select Award Certificate then Plain Paper, then select one of the designs in the right window and click Start Wizard.
The wizard appears in the left window. Click Next. The Colour Scheme Wizard appears. Select each scheme to see the changes on the calendar. I chose Waterfall.
Click Next to move onto the PERSONAL INFORMATION. Just click on Finish.
You will now have a Certificate created. But the details on it will be incorrect.
Firstly change the Award Title. Type in Student of the Year Award. You will notice that the text cannot fit. You could change the text size. However you cannot adjust the width of the text box, as it is locked to the Coloured rectangle. The two interlocking Jigsaw pieces tell us this.
Click once on the jigsaw piece and you get the following. This means that the text box, and the coloured rectangle are no longer locked together.
You can now resize the text box without affecting the coloured rectangle. Firstly select the text box, by clicking on it once, then drag the grips to resize it, make sure to keep it inside the coloured rectangle.
We will now lock them together again. Hold down the shift key, and select the text box, then the coloured rectangle. The Unlocked symbol shows up. Click once to lock them together.
Highlight the text ‘Business Name’ and delete it and type the name of your school. I increased the font to 26 and the font style to Viner Hand ITC made it bold, and centred it. You will also have to resize the text bow as it is not high enough for the size 26 text.
Next change the remaining text boxes to suit.
There may or may not be a logo included on the certificate but it is unlikely to be suitable. Select it and select delete to get rid of it.
Insert Clipart, and do a search for ‘award’, you can then insert one of the appropriate images. Then recolor picture to one that suits the colour scheme, by right clicking on the image, selecting ‘Recolor’, and choosing one of the colours that matches your colour scheme.
We will now insert the Owl Watermark. Make sure nothing is selected and select Insert Clipart again. This time do a search for study and insert a suitable image. Position it on the centre of the page, and recolor it to a light shade of a suitable colour.
We now want to make the image go behind the text boxes. Make sure the owl is selected. Go to the arrange menu and select ‘Send Backward’, keep doing this until the image is hidden by all the text boxes.
Text boxes are automatically filled with a white background. We want to change this to No background colour. Select the first text box, right click on it, and select the CHANGE FRAME option, then FILL COLOR, finally select NO FILL, repeat for the remaining text boxes.
16. Finally save your Certificate and print it.
Task:- Create a certificate for your parents, brother or sister.

MS Publisher. Dunmore SIP 2002. D.Quinn ã2002.