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Pagemaker Tutorials - Pagemaker Process Overview - Gathering your ideas and determining the goals of your publication is an important step in the writing process. It acts as a blueprint for what your publication will become.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Starting Pagemaker - How to open Pagemaker, create a new document and save files.
Pagemaker Tutorials - The Pagemaker Environment - PageMaker is a powerful software application used for desktop publishing and is available for both Windows and Macintosh users. The application allows you to manipulate features such as page size, text, graphics, and borders. PageMaker's strengths are in its ability to bring together text and images to make professional looking resumes, brochures, handouts, and newsletters.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Pagemaker Overview - The Pagemker document window, the pasteboard analogy and an overview of the pages/pull-down menus.
Pagemaker Tutorials - The Pagemaker Toolbox - The PageMaker Toolbox contains all of the tools you will use for creating and manipulating text and objects. It also contains two tools to help you view your publication. This document will familiarize you with the tools in the toolbox.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Pagemaker's Toolbox - An explaination of the tools in Pagemaker's toolbox.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Working with text in Pagemaker - Creating, importing and formatting text in Pagemaker. Contains exercises one to five
Pagemaker Tutorials - About Pagemaker Dialog Boxes - This document provides examples of the three most used dialog boxes in PageMaker.
Pagemaker Tutorials - More Tool Palettes - The colour palette, control palette and master pages palette.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Working with Pagemaker Ruler and Guides - PageMaker provides the ruler and ruler guides to help you position or align text, objects or graphics with a great deal of precision. You can choose to display or hide the rulers and guides as your needs change. You can also choose to have objects which are placed close to a guide "snap to" the guide for easy and consistent alignment.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Pagemaker Basics - PageMaker is designed to work best as a page layout program. It is excellent for documents with complex formatting and/or multiple pages, such as newsletters, resumes, reports, and, of course, handouts. The PageMaker window contains many parts that work together to make creating a document easy.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Hyperlinking Documents in PageMaker - Use these four supertips when you want to add links to your Adobe PageMaker 7.0 online documents.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Working with Text in Pagemaker - Many of the concepts and techniques that you know from working with a word processor will carry over to PageMaker.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Using The Pointer Tool in Pagemaker - When you are working with PageMaker, you will have the flexibility to define your text area. To determine the boundaries and placement of the text, you will be using the Pointer tool.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Creating HTML Documents - Creative Director Laura Urban Perry shows you how to convert your PageMaker 6.5 files to Web pages using the HTML Export plug-in.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Text Options in Pagemaker - PageMaker offers options for creating special effects with text. A drop cap can be used to distinguish the beginning of a paragraph. Reverse text can be used to emphasize text such as a heading or label.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Text Selection Tricks - These are simple ways to select (highlight) text that work in many programs. One easy selection method may be unfamiliar to you.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Using Layers Creatively - Adobe PageMaker includes a powerful Layers tool with countless applications — we'll show you three in this tip.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Using PageMaker 6.5 (to create professional-looking documents) - While individual applications allow you to enter and format text or create graphics, few applications can be used to easily integrate graphics and text. Desktop publication (DTP) applications can be used to put together professional-looking documents from separate graphics and text files.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Speed Up PageMaker - Find 6 ways to speed up Adobe PageMaker and make it run faster and help you work more efficiently.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Using Story Editor in Pagemaker - To edit text in a format that looks and behaves more like a word processor use the Story Editor. The Story Editor displays all the text in a particular story at the same size in block format for easy editing, even if the story spans several pages in your document
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