Jeanie W. Mizell

Monday, Feb 27--Lesson 3, Exercise 17

• Character Spacing -- the space between each letter in a block of text.
• Drop cap -- An ornamental capital letter at the beginning of a paragraph that is much larger than surrounding letters and that "drops" into the lines beneath it or rests on the baseline.
• Fixed color--A color that does not change when the color scheme changes.
• Publications do not use any fixed colors by default, but you can specify a fixed color for any object.
• Font--A typeface; a style of lettering.
• Example:  Arial Black, Times New Roman
• Fonts are measured in points.
• A point is 1/72 of an inch.
• A typical size for body tex is 10  or 12 points.
• Font syle can be regular, italic, bold, or bold italic
• Kerning--The spacing between certain characters based on their shapes and the way they fit together side-by-side.
• Scaling--The width of characters in relation to a fixed default setting of 100%
• Scheme Color--A color placeholder that is defined by the chosen color scheme for the publication
• Tracking--The spacing between the characters for a selected text box (very Tight through Very Loose).

Assignment:  Exercise 17, pg 88 -- Save as 17Flyer & OYO, pg 90--Save As 17LOST.

 Tuesday, Feb 28--Lesson 3, Exercise 18

• Border--A line around the outside of an object that is visible when the publication is printed.
• One big advantage of using the dialog box to apply the border instead of the toolbar is that you can choose which sides of the objec should be affected.
• Hairline--A very thin border.
• Object--A generic term for any text box, picture, drawing, or other piece of data in a publication that is separately movable and resizable.
• every object is a free-floating entity on the page which can be moved, resized, copied, and deleted.
• Opaque--Unable to be seen through; the opposite of transparent.
• An opbject's opacity is the measurement of how nontransparent it is.
• By default, a text box is transparent
• A transparency of 0% makes the colors very bright & vibrant
• Transparency might appear to have the same effect as the Tint effect  but it is actually differt.  Transparency decreases the fill's opacity, so it becomes see-through.  Tint mixes the color with varying degrees of white so it becomes paler but not less opaque.

Assigments:  Exercise 18, pg 95--Save as 18Flyer & OYO, pg 96--Save as 18Board

 Monday, March 12--Lesson 3, Exercise 19

• Aspect Ratio--The ratio of height to width of an object. 
• If the aspect ratio of a picture is allowed to change, the picture distorts
• Patterned lines do not look very good unless the border is very thick.  Otherwise they just look like irregulary dotted lines
• BorderArt--A small graphic that is repeated around the edge of an object, forming a border. 
• BorderArt can be overwhelming for individual text boxes.  Use it sparingly.
• If you choose Stretch pictures to fit, it makes each copy of the picture slightly wider or taller if needed to minimize the amount of blank space between pictures.
• If you leave the Always apply at default size check box marked, the BorderArt picture will remain the same size regardless of the frame size.
• When applied to a very small frame, this can result in only a few copies of the picture on each side of the frame.
• A BorderArt image at default size can overwhelm a small object
• If you clear this check box, you can then specify a picture size in the Weight box of the Format Text Box dialog box to control the size of the BorderArt border.
• Fill Effects--create special backgrounds in whatever object they are applied to
• Tint Fill--A tint is a shade of a particular color ( the same hue but a different amount of light/dark)
• Pattern Fill--Just like with a line, you can choose a pattern for a fill.
• You choose different colors for the background and foreground, and then choose a pattern to apply
• The default background color for a pattern is white, but it it can be set to any color.
• Gradient Fill--A fill effect that gradually progresses from one color to another that gives the appearance of how light falls on a shape or moving object.
• You can choose from a variety of gradient "directions" and specify the colors that will comprise it.
• You can have either a one-color or two-color gradient.  If you choose one-color, the color it fades to is black or white.
• You can also choose a preset gradient, which includes two prechosen colors.  These have evocative names like Late Sunset and Desert.
• Transparency level allows you to make the gradient fade from more to less transparent if desired.
• Shading styles let you specify which direction the fade will run.  Within each shading style, you can choose several Variants
• The Rotate fill effect with shape check box lets you specify that if you later rotate the object that you are filling, the background gradient will rotate too.
• Gradient, Texture, and Picture all have this option
• Texture Fill--enables you to apply a graphic as a background that resembles a certain type of matersia (paper, cloth, or wood)
• You can also use your own graphic as a texture by clicking Other Texture and selecting it.
• Picture Fill--is like a texture , in that it fills the object with an image, but with Pictue Fill you specify the image to use.
• The Picture tab starts out blank, with no picture displayed, You must click Select Picture and Locate/select a picture to use.  It then appears in the picture preview area
• The Lock picture aspec ratio check box ensures that the picture will not be distoreted in order to fit more precisely in the frame.
• This is especially important if you are using a picture of a person.
• A picture fill in a text box can make the text very difficult to read.  Use such a fill very sparingly.

Assignments:  Exercise 19, pg 102--save as 19Flyer & OYO, pg 104--save as 19BOARD.

Tuesday, March 13--Lesson 3, Exercise 20 

• Text Alignments
• Left--left alignment is the default alignment for manually placed text boxes; for placehoder boxes the alignment varies depending on the template.
• Right
• Center
• Justified--Text stretched out with extra spacing as needed so that all lines align evenly on b oth the right and left.
• Line Spacing settings apply only to the paragraph in which the insertion point lies when you make the change.
• Three kinds of line spacing:  Betwee lines, Before paragraphs, & After paragraphs.
• To affect more than one paragraph at once, select them before making the change.
• Set line spacing from the Paragraph dialog box (Format, Paragraph) on the Indents & Spacing tab.
• You also can set line spacing from File tab and click on paragraph
• Vertical Alignment--refers to the vertical position of the text within the text frame.
• The default vertical alignmet is Top, but Publisher offers Middle or Bottom as well.
• To choose an alignment, place th insertion point in the paragraph to affect (or select mutiple paragraphs) and right click then choose Format, Text Box.  Then on the Text Box tab, change the Vertical alignment setting.

Assignments:  Exercise 20, pg 107--save as 20Flyer & OYO, pg 109--save as 20BOARD.

Wednesday, March 14--Lesson 3, Exercise 21

• A tab stop marks a certain horizontal location within a textbox.
• Each paragraph has its own separat tab stop settings.
• A paragraph has default tab stops every 1/2 inch.
• Any custom tab stops you create for a paragraph will appear as symbos on the ruler when the insertion point is in the paragraph for which they are set.
• The default tab stops do not appear on the ruler
• The default tab stop is Left--text that you type after you press Tab to move to it begins at the tab stop and runs to the right
• Center tab stop--Centers the text under the tab stop.
• Right tab stop--Adjusts the text placement so that the text ends exactly under the tab stop.
• Decimal tab stop--Works like a right tab stop until a decimal point (or period) appears in the text; then it begins to work like a left tab sto from that point, so the decimal point remains exactly under the stop.
• The Tabs dialog box enables you to set a leader.
• A leader is useful if you want to help a reader's eye follow the text from one side of a page to another without skipping a line
• Such as in a table of contents
• The leader character appears between the text and the next tab stop to the right.
• Dot Leader--aligns with bottom
• Dashed Leader--aligns with middle
• Line Leader--aligns with bottom
• Bullet Leader--aligns with middle
• Indents--increase the amount of white space to the left and/or right of a paragraph
• You might want to indent a paragraph, such as a quotation, for emphasis
• Do not confuse indents with left/right margins.
• Margins are for the entire text box or entire page, while indents are for individual paragraphs only.

Assignments:  Exercise 21, pg 114-- Save as 21INFO & OYO, pg 115-- Save as 21TOC.  Print 21INFO & Place both exercises in LanSchool.

Monday, March 19--Lesson 3, Exercise 22

• Bullet--A character that appears to the left of the first line of a paragraph to call attention to that paragraph's beginning point.
• Set the size of the bullet in the Size box.  By default it is the same size as the paragraph's text
• Use the Indent list by box to specify how much indent the text should have.  This does not affect the bullet character's positioning--only the text
• To affect the bullet character's positioning, adjust the hanging indent for the firstline in the Paragraph dialog box
• If none of the bullet characters appeals to you, you can select a different character by clicking the Character button.  In the Bullet Character dialog box that appears, choose a font and then select a character from the font to use as your bullet.
• Some useful fonts for bullets include Wingdings, Webdings, Symbol, and Marlett.
• Just as with bullets, you can create a numbered list while you type,  Click the Numbering button to turn numbers on, and then type your list, pressing Enter after each item.
• Press Enter twice, or click the Numbering button again, to turn numbering off.
• To change the formatting of the numbered list, choose Format, Bullets and Numbering, and Click the Numbering tab.
• You may choose a number format from the Format drop-down list.  Your choices include Arabic numbers (1,2,3,4), lowercase letters (a,b,c,d), or uppercase letters (A,B,C,D).
• The separator character is the character that follows the number.  By default, it is a period, but you may choose from a variety of characters (or no character).

Assignments:  Exercise 22, page 118--Save as 22INFO, 22MENU & OYO, pg 120--Save as 22Party.  Print both documents and place in LanSchool.

 Wednesday, March 21--Lesson 3, Exercise 23

Format Painter--A feature that enables you to copy the formatting from existing text and "paint" it onto other text

• To copy formatting from one section of text to another, select the text that is already formatted correctly, then click the Format Painter button.  The mouse pointer becomes a paintbrush.  Drag across the text to be formatted, and the formatting is copied.
• If you click the paragraph of the text to be formatted instead of dragging over specific text, the entire paragraph receives the formatting.
• Format Painter copies all attributes of the text:
• font
• size
• text effects
• underline style
• color
• and so on
• If you double-click the Format Painter button, you can drag over multiple sections of text.  Click the button again to turn the feature off when finished.

Style--A set of predefined formatting specifications that you can apply to certain text.

• Example:  Formatting for the style Heading 1 might include bold, italic, 24-point Arial, and centered.
• Using styles saves formmating time and also ensures consistency in a publication.
• If you start with a blank publication, the only default style on the list is Normal.
• Using Update to match selection is an easier way to change a style than the Modify Style dialog box.
• You cannot delete the Normal style, but you can delete any other styles you have created.

Assignments:  Exercise 23, pg 125--Save as 23Menu & 23COPY; OYO, pg 126--save as 23STYLES.  Save in your Lesson 3 folder and place a copy of your Lesson 3 folder in LanSchool.

Thursday, March 22--Lesson  3, Ex. 24

Cell--The instersection of a row and a column in a table.  You type text in cells.

• to select a cell in a table, click it.

Range--A rectangular block of cells selected as a group.

• To select a range of cells in a table, drag across them.

Assignment:  Exercise 24, pg 131--Save as FLYER; OYO, pg 132--Save as 24CAL & Ex 25, pg 137--Save as 25Flyer.  Place all files in your Lesson 3 folder and place a copy of your lesson 3 folder in LanSchool.  Print all exercises and put in the blue basket. 

Monday, March 26, 2012--Lesson 3, Critical Thinking Ex 26

Save as 26PET.  Print and place in the basket, save a copy of the file in your L3 folder, then place a copy of the L3 folder in LanSchool.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012--Lesson 3, Critical Thinking Ex 27

Save as 27GARDEN.  Print and place in the basket, save a copy of the file in your L3 folder, then place a copy of the L3 folder in LanSchool.