Worksheet 8:- Creating a Newsletter.
Open MS Publisher and select Publications By Wizard. Select Catalogues, 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. I chose Pebbles.
Click Next to move onto the NUMBER OF COLUMNS. You can have 1, 2 or 3. I chose 1 for simplicity. Click Next, select no for CUSTOMERS ADDRESS and Next again.
When asked for Business/Personal Information, just select FINISH.
You now have an 8 page newsletter, we want to change this to a 4 page newsletter. To do this select either page 4 or 5, and then EDIT> DELETE PAGE. Accept BOTH PAGES, and then click OK. Repeat for the new pages 4 and 5. You should now have a four page Newsletter.
Goto page one by selecting it at the bottom of the page. Change the name of your newsletter to your school name. Add the date, and issue number. Delete inappropriate text boxes.
Scan in a picture of your school, or a picture of anything suitable for the front cover. .
Resize the text box at the bottom to use the maximum amount of space, and delete the text from the box.
Change to page two, Again delete any inappropriate boxes or text. Draw a text box to fill the screen. Repeat on page 3 and 4. Fill in the phone number, fax and address if necessary or else delete the objects.
The basic layout of the newsletter is complete. Save it under the name ‘newsletter template’.
You can now start adding the articles to the newsletter. On the front cover type in the introductory paragraph. You can resize the text to make it fill the text box, then add a border to the text box.
On page 2 you can enter a large story. You can also insert clipart on top of the text box, it will push the text either side of it.
You can also resize the text boxes and enter a second one underneath it if you want to enter a second story. I did this on page 3.
On page 4 you can place another news item, or you could scan in a word-search or crossword, and use that instead to complete the newsletter, I downloaded a crossword from the website
www.kidscrosswords.com and inserted it as an image. When complete save it as March News letter, and next time you go to create a newsletter open the saved file, newsletter template and change the Issue number, date and enter your articles and save as **** Newsletter.
When you print the newsletter, it will print page 1 and 4 on an A4 sheet, then you turn the sheet over and it will print pages 2 and 3 on the back, then just fold the sheet in half and you have a four page newsletter.
If you want a larger newsletter you can Select INSERT and PAGE, however this will insert another four pages. Then when printing, pages 1,8 and 2, 7 will go on one A4 page, and pages 3,6 and 4,5 will go on another, you will then have to staple them in the middle and fold to create an 8 page booklet.

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