Magazine Magic!!!

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Magazine Magic!!!

• Bret Madsen

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Todays Top Headlines

• Elements of a magazine
• Formatting pages
• Adding pictures
• Tying it all together

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Top Newsletter Tips

• 1. Make your newsletter's name an attention
  grabber
• 2. Write your newsletter's articles objectively
• 3. Write to express, not to impress
• 4. Proofread, proofread, proofread
• 5. Use front-page articles to draw in readers

From www.companynewsletter.com
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Top Newsletter Tips

• 6. Use at least one graphic per page
• 7. Use image-editing software to sharpen your
  photos
• 8. Use accent colors and tints to make your
  newsletter more eye-catching

From www.companynewsletter.com
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Beginning Your Magazine

• Choose your Software Program
• Microsoft Word is a good program for basic
  editing and simple layouts
• Microsoft Publisher, PageMaker, and Broderbund
  Print Shop are good programs for creating
  different layouts and viewing magazine type
  layouts
• Today we will be using Microsoft Publisher

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Open Publisher

• Select Publisher from the Start menu.
• We will be creating the following elements in our
  magazine
• Title Page
• Inserting Stories
• Inserting Pictures
• Creating a Table of Contents

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Choosing a Style

• Enter a Title for your Magazine.
• Select a new publication and choose the
  Newsletter design. There are several styles in
  each design type. Choose the one you like the
  best.
• The program will automatically create 4 pages for
  your newsletter.
• A front cover, two inside pages, and a back
  cover.

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Modifying the Print Style

• You can customize the Newsletter design by
  choosing different color schemes and font
  schemes.
• Remember to use colors and fonts that will be eye
  catching, but dont forget to make it easy to
  read.

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The Title Page

• Select the Newsletter Title and change it to the
  title of your magazine.
• Change the Newsletter Date.
• The left side of the page contains the titles of
  each story and the page it is on. Normally you
  will fill this in after you have finished your
  stories.

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Editing the Document

• Now it is time to begin filling in the stories.
• Edit the second story title and begin writing
  about it.
• For today make the title, My Favorite 4-H
  project is _______ and type in whatever your
  favorite is.
• For today just type a couple of sentences in the
  story.

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Editing and Adding New Pictures

• The Newsletter design places pictures in some of
  the stories. We will first change the picture
  that is already there and then add a new picture.
• Right click on the picture in the First Story
  Headline and choose Change Picture. If you had
  your own pictures you could choose From file or
  Scanner.
• Today we will choose from Clip Art and pick
  another picture.

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Editing and Adding New Pictures

• Notice if the size of the picture changed then
  the text moved as well.
• Now we will add a second picture.
• Click on the text of the first story.
• Select Insert from the top menu then Picture and
  Clip Art.
• Chose a picture.

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Editing and Adding New Pictures

• Try moving the picture around the story. Notice
  that the text adjusts automatically so you dont
  have to worry about that.

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Adding Additional Pages

• The Newsletter design creates 4 pages to start
  with and we need at least 8.
• To add the other 4 pages, select Insert and Page.
• Publisher wants to add 2 pages at time for the
  left and right sides of the page.
• Publisher will create the new pages before the
  last page of the newsletter.
• You can choose the type of page you want.
• Create the left side as stories and the right as
  a calendar.

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The Back Page

• The back page of a magazine or newsletter usually
  contains information about the organization, or
  in this case, the person writing the article.
• Add your name and address to the first section on
  this page.
• The second area can be filled in with information
  about yourself, like why you joined this project.

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Finishing Up

• Once all of the stories have been written, add
  the titles to the left hand side of the front
  page.
• You dont have to add all of the story titles to
  the front page. A lot of magazines add only their
  top 5 stories to the front page to grab peoples
  attention.