SPRING 2006
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Week 4/Apr. 24
Lesson 3: Project Proposal
In this week's
lesson, you'll produce your first multi-page publication and meet one of
PageMaker's handiest features: master pages. Think of your master
page as the common foundation for the pages in your document: it's where you
put headers, footers, page numbers, and other repeating design elements that
need to appear on all or most pages in
the body of your publication (to
see what I mean, click here).
Master pages can also contain column guides, ruler guides, and other non-printing elements that you want to see on every page (making layout simpler and more consistent). You can create, modify, and delete objects on master pages just like any other objects, but you must do so from the master pages themselves (they are not accessible from other pages).
New PageMaker publications
always contain
a Document
Master
page. (You can create more master pages - as many
as you want
- but that's a subject for a later lesson). Master page icons
appear
at the
bottom of your document window
to the left of your
document page
icons: one, right-facing
page if your document is single-sided, and two (right and left
facing) if your document is double-sided and you checked "Facing Pages"
in Document Set-up. This week's lesson employs a single
master page to simplify the layout.
In addition to master pages, the Project Proposal will also introduce you to
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creating, editing, and applying styles to format type
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specifying and formatting page numbers
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varying the number of columns on a page
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using the autoflow option to place your text into multiple columns and pages
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wrapping text around a graphic object
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using the Control palette to re-size and re-position objects
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adjusting tracking (the spacing between letters and words)
This week's assignment is due in my e-mailbox by noon Monday, May 1.
About the fonts:
This week's lesson requires the
font Birch, which is not included on your Classroom in a Book disk.
You will find it on your PageMaker 7 application disk in the Fonts/Template
Fonts folder (Fonts may be buried in a folder called Extras in some versions
of the software). By the way, Adobe has included a lot of great fonts with
this program; I suggest you install them all.
This week in the
Conference Room:
I
made some modifications to our Blackboard Discussion Board. There is now a
separate forum for each lesson, making it easier for us to address specific
issues as they come up. I suggest you check out the messages posted for
Lesson 3 (this one seems to raise a number of issues!) and use this forum to
post your own questions and comments for this lesson. Don't be shy; let's talk!
Questions about how to do your
lessons?
Check out
Weekly Lesson Plan for tips on the correct
way to complete and submit your assignments. Be sure to follow the
e-mail guidelines for all e-mail
messages and file attachments you send to Bill.
assignment 3:
Complete to turn in:
Lesson 3: Project Proposal (pp. 82-116)
Deadline:
Monday, May 1
© 2006 Bill Symes, Clackamas Community College
Revised 02/20/2006