Revised by V. Harmon from a Power Point Presentation by

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Creating a Brochure with MS WORD

• Revised by V. Harmon from a Power Point
  Presentation by
• Ray Hoger ICT Coordinator Medicine Hat Catholic
  Board of Education

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A brochure in Word 2000 is made up of a series of
panels
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Before You Begin

• Gather all the information required to prepare
  your brochure
• data (jot notes) from web sites, encyclopedias,
  magazines, newspapers etc.
• images from web, clip art, scanning etc. should
  be in a common location (images folder for
  example)
• Ensure you have access to computer with Office
  2000 (Citrix users have Office 2003)

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Layout Your Brochure

• On a sheet of paper sketch out where your data
  and images will go.
• Use the two images at left to visualize how the
  pages will look when folded and how you must
  place the material.

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Notes on Images

• When you insert an image, you will see it
  surrounded by a black box with black squares in
  the corners and sides. A picture toolbar should
  appear (if not, click View gt Toolbars gt Pictures)
  
• Click the Text Wrapping icon

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Image Notes Continued

• From the text wrap choices available, choose
  TIGHT.
• Notice how the black box and black squares
  (called handles) have disappeared
• White handles now appear and text will flow
  around the image.

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3 Column Brochure Step 1

• open Word 2000 (Start gt Programs gt Microsoft
  Office Tools gt Microsoft Word choose paper size
  and select landscape
• DO NOT click OK

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3 Column Brochure Step 2

• click on the margins tab and set your top and
  bottom margins to 2.54 cm (1 inch) set left and
  right margins to 1 cm (0.39 inches)

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3 Column Brochure Step 3

• Choose Format gt Columns
• select 3 columns
• Spacing between columns must be twice the
  left/right margins
• spacing 2 cm (.78 inches
• Click OK

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3 Column Brochure Step 4

• Notice in the image below how your ruler will
  look in Word. (The dotted lines will not
  appearthey are here to direct your eyes only.)
• The left and right margin markers will appear
  only in the active columncolumn 2 in the image
  below. There is no need for you to adjust or
  change these markers.

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3 Column Brochure Step 5

• Begin keying in your material, inserting images,
  in the left most column. When you are ready to
  move to the next column, choose Insert gt Break
  and click in the Column Break radio button. Click
  OK and your cursor is moved to the top of the
  next column.

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3 Column Brochure Step 6

• The program will start a new column automatically
  
• if you key in enough material to reach the bottom
  of one column the program will start at the top
  of the next column automatically, just as it
  starts a new page automatically when you have
  enough text on one page.
• When you are ready to begin a new page, hold down
  the control key and press enter.
• a new page is started
• the 3 column setup continues from the first page
  to the second page

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You should now be ready to create your special
brochure.