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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office 2003 in 24 Hours - page 190

Summary

This hour showed you how to use Office products to create Web pages. Word certainly offers the advantage in your initial Web page design, unless, of course, you want to put a PowerPoint presentation on the Web ”in which case, the PowerPoint templates offer the best place to start your Web page design.

You can use Word as your primary Web-page development tool and import other Office products as needed to add their elements to the Web page that you save from Word. PowerPoint offers a unique Web page design wizard that designs Web-based presentations with the same look and feel as other Web pages.

Now that you have seen how to use Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint to create Web pages from your Office data, you're ready to move to a new Office 2003 program, Microsoft Publisher. With Publisher, you will be able to create, edit, and arrange a publication such as a newsletter, flyer, or even rather complicated Web pages with ease. Hour 23, "Publishing with Flair Using Publisher 2003," explores Publisher.

Q&A

Q1:	Can I use my Windows Me or Windows XP PC as a Web server?
A1:	Several programs now turn just about any computer into a Web server. One of the most popular is the Apache server software that you can download from http://www.apache.com, the Apache Web site. Depending on how much computing power you have, you might not want to tie up your PC by using it as a Web server. If not, consider renting the server service from one of the many Web-hosting companies that exist.
Q2:	Can I include Excel graphs on my Web pages?
A2:	Certainly. You can copy the graph to your Windows Clipboard and then paste it directly into your Word- or PowerPoint-based Web page. An Excel graph is no different from any other kind of data that you can copy and paste into a Web page from any of the Office products. Windows supports OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) technology that enables you to insert virtually any object inside any other kind of document. If you want to insert an Excel graph or a video file with sound into a Web page, you can do so by using the Insert menu from the Office product's menu bar.

Part VIII: Publishing Eye-Catching Documents

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23 Publishing with Flair Using Publisher 2003

24 Adding Art to Your Publications

Hour 23. Publishing with Flair Using Publisher 2003

This hour introduces Publisher 2003 and shows you how to create eye-catching publications within Publisher. Also, you'll learn how to turn documents you created in other Office products into polished, professional publications . Publisher 2003 is the latest in a series of Publisher versions that Microsoft has produced over the years . In keeping with Publisher's tradition, Publisher offers new and simpler ways of producing documents that look better than ever before.

Publisher was the first product to offer wizards, the technology that everyone familiar with Microsoft products has used. You've worked with wizards throughout this book and you know how wizards can help guide you through the document-creation process. Publisher actually starts its wizards for you and creates sample publications that you then can edit to suit your own needs. Publisher creates samples for almost any publication you need; you'll rarely have to create a document from scratch again. Once you create a publication, Publisher generates the initial publication and you then can begin your work to change that publication's specific elements.

The highlights of this hour include

Why you might use Publisher (as opposed to Word) for your publications
How to use the Publisher's sample technology to create initial publication designs
When to add details to the publication's design
Why use a text box to hold text you'll need to edit later
How to make text flow from one newsletter column to another, even if that column appears on another page

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