Tips for Creating Brochures with Word

Setting Up Your Brochure || Working with Columns || Working with Images || Some Extra Tips

Here are the steps for setting up your brochure:

To set up your page:
Click the File menu.  
 Click Page Setup.  
 Underneath the words Page Setup, there are some tabs. 
Click the "Paper Size" tab.
Set the "Orientation" to "Landscape."
Check with your teacher whether "Paper Size" should be set to "Letter" or "Legal."
While still in Page Setup.
Click the "Margins" tab.
Change the "Top," "Bottom," "Left," and "Right" margins to .5".  If your teacher wants you to use Letter size paper, you may need to choose .25".
 Click [OK] to accept your choices.
To set up your columns:
 Click the Format menu.
Click Columns.  
 For a tri-fold brochure, click the button for three columns.
Be sure that "Equal column width" is checked.
 Click [OK] to accept your choices.
Viewing the edges of your columns can be helpful when you're deciding on placement of your text and images. 
Click the Tools menu.
Click Options.
 Click the "View" tab.  
Place a check next to "Text Boundaries."
 Click [OK] to accept your choices.

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Working with Columns

You can work in many columns by using column breaks.  Here's where you can go to add them to your brochure:
 Click the Insert menu.  
Click Break.  
Set the "Break type" to "Column Break."
 Click [OK] to accept your choices.

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Working with Images

There are three ways to add images to your brochure - Clip Art, Word Art, or a picture from a file.

 To insert Clip Art:
Click Insert menu.
Click Picture.
  Then click Clip Art.

To insert Word Art:
Click Insert menu.
Click Picture.
Then click Word Art.  (For more information about Word Art, click here.)

To insert pictures that you've saved in a file in your network space:
Click Insert menu.
Click Picture.
Then click From File.
 Click [Insert] to add the picture to your brochure.


To wrap your text around your images:
 Right-Click on your picture.  
Click Format Picture.
Click the "Layout" tab and click "Square."  
 Click [OK] to accept your choices.

Notice that the handles around your image change.  When your picture is "In line with text," the handles are solid black.  When the picture floats, the handles are white.

You can use the arrow keys to move your floating image.  Holding down the <Ctrl> key while using the arrow keys will move your picture more slowly.
A Picture Toolbar is available so that you can change an image that you have selected.  If you click once on your picture and you do not see the Picture Toolbar, do the following:

Right-Click on your image.  
Click "Show Picture Toolbar."
 Now you can do things like change the brightness and crop your picture.

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Some Extra Tips

You can view your whole brochure on the screen in a few different ways.
 Click the View menu.  
Click Zoom.
Set the zoom to "Whole page."
 Click [OK] to accept your choices.
                                                OR
 On the tool bar at the top of your screen, change the percentage from 100% to "Whole Page" or "Two Pages" if you want to see your entire brochure.
                                                OR
 Click the File Menu.
Click Print Preview.
Use the drawing tools to make changes to your brochure.  If they are not already on your screen, click View menu and then click Toolbars: Drawing.

With the drawing tools, you can draw shapes, add boxes around images or text and much, much more.  
Text boxes can be useful if you have some information that you would like to highlight.  Add a text box by clicking on the square with the small letter A and then clicking on the place in your brochure that you would like to have the text box.

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Page created by Donna Macdonald, Orchard School's Library/Media Specialist.
This page last updated: 08/28/04