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Course Length: One Day
Fees: Training at Client Offices: One delegate: £495 per-day + VAT
Additional delegates attending: £100 each per-day + VAT
Overview:
This course explains how to use PageMaker 6.5 to produce well-designed documents
quickly and easily. Emphasis is placed on the principles of good design in DTP,
as well as giving a thorough grounding in the essentials of operating the
software. Students will work on a set of sample documents for a fictional
company during the course, giving hands-on experience of different types of
documents and the specific features of PageMaker.
The Intermediate course deals with the more advanced
features of this excellent DTP package including Templates; Layers; Type
Effects; Preparation of Long Documents, Printing and more.

Working with Templates
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Working with master pages |
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Adding items to a master page |
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Adding automatic page numbers |
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Working with multiple master pages |
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Using/modifying existing templates |
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Creating a custom template |
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Using the Grid Manager |
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Using frames in templates |
Applying Type Effects
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Applying effects to text |
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Adding a pull quote |
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Using the Drop cap plug-in |
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Adding drop shadow effect to text |
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Adding bullets and numbering |
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Changing the horizontal scale |
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Aligning inline graphics by changing baseline
shift |
Formatting Graphics
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Cropping & Modifying graphics |
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Scaling a graphic by percentage |
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Rotating, Reflecting, Skewing, Masking a
graphic |
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Using multiple paste |
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Duplicating graphics from other documents |
Working with Objects on a Page
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Aligning & Grouping objects |
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Power pasting objects |
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Replacing the contents of a frame |
Applying layers
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Exploring layers |
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Viewing the Layers palette |
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Adding a layer in the Layers palette |
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Assigning an object to a layer |
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Arranging layers |
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Hiding and locking a layer |
Working with Table Editor
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Adding tables |
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Creating a table |
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Adding and importing text in a table |
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Changing the format of the text in a table |
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Changing the format of the cell borders |
Working
with Long Documents
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Creating a book |
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Copying a booklist to all pages |
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Adding a continuation line to a page |
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Adding a running header and footer |
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Generating a table of contents |
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Changing the format of a table of contents |
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Creating an index |
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Adding entries to an index |
Printing Publications
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Preparing publications for printing |
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Using the Links Manager |
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Arranging pages in a publication |
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Using the Build Booklet tool |
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Printing publications |
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Setting printing options |
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Printing composite proofs for in-house
processing |
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