Publisher Tasks

With the “Publisher Tasks” option, which is new in the 2007 version, we can get help to perform many common procedures, and we can create and distribute publications easily.

For example:
In the image below, I forgot to add the logo in the business card.
“Publisher Tasks” can help us.
Click on the “Publisher Tasks” button which is at the left of the “Formatting Toolbar”.
This opens the “Publisher Tasks” panel.
The “Publisher tasks” window is divided into three sections.

You have the “Creating a publication” section, the “Distributing your publication” section, and a section called “Following up”. These, in turn, are divided into various tasks.  All these will be covered during the following lessons, but as an example I want to use “Publication tasks” option to enter the logo on my business card.

To do this, I click on the “Add Text and Image” button

This opens the second window of the “Publication tasks”.
I want to insert the logo from already established businessinfo to, so I click on the “Add Your Business information” option.

The third window is now opened.
At the bottom I find the logo. I click on the arrow pointing downwards and select the “Insert this field” option.

This places the logo in the business card. I can adjust the size, by clicking and dragging the dots on the edge of the logo. If I place the mouse pointer over the logo, it changes to a four-headed arrow, and I can click and drag the logo to the required position.

The “Picture toolbar” appears when the logo is selected.

This was a simple example of what you can do with “Publisher Tasks.”

Of course, you can also do everything that is displayed in the “Publisher Tasks” menu, in an ordinary way.

As I mentioned earlier, all these options will be discussed later.

Importing a Word document

Sometimes, you may want to insert text from a “Word” document, in a publication.

To do this, click on the “File” button in the “Menu bar” and select “Import Word Document” from the drop-down menu.

Navigate to the file that is to be inserted, select it and click OK.
“Publisher” will convert the file to a compatible format.
If your “Word” document contains several pages, “Publisher” will add the required number of pages, to the publication.

Once the text is entered, you can edit and format it as you wish.

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