TASK 3: Create a Newsletter. Features to be covered:-Table of content. Newspaper columns, Images from files and clipart, Drawing toolbar and Word Art,

class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">TASK 3:
Create a Newsletter. Features to be covered:-Table of content. Newspaper columns, Images from files and clipart, Drawing toolbar and Word Art, Formatting Images, Textboxes and Paragraphs.

PURPOSE:
To create a news Letter
THEORY:
Table of contents:
Table of contents displays a list of headings in a created document. It basically provides an outline of the entire document created
Newspaper columns:
One can create a newspaper columns document by specifying the number of new letter-style column required and then adjust their width , and add vertical lines between columns.
Images from files and clipart:
Inserting a picture (graphic) from a file and clipart may be required for a document. This picture could be a scanned photograph or any other digitally produced one. These pictures can be modified, resized, cropped and enhanced.
Drawing toolbar and Word Art:
One can create his/her own drawings in Microsoft word.Ms word provides a full fledged drawing tool bar.
Word Art in Microsoft word enables you to create special and decorative text.
Formatting Images, Textboxes and Paragraphs:
Formatting an image includes selecting appropriate color, size, layout and cropping.
Generally the text in a document follows a standard orientation (line after line). A text box provides a different orientation to the text with in a document. It can arrange the text in any where and can be resized and moreover moved to any section of the document or even outside.
When you are formatting a paragraph, you do not need to highlight the entire paragraph. Placing the cursor any where in the paragraph enables you to format it. After you set a paragraph format, subsequent paragraphs will have the same format unless you change the format

PROCEDURE:
Table of contents:
1. Click where you want to insert the table of contents.
2. On the Insert menu, point to Reference, and click Index and Tables.
3. Click the Table of Contents tab.
4. To use one of the available designs, click a design in the Formats box.
5. Select any other table of contents options you want.
Newspaper columns:
1. Select the entire or part of document to be converted into a newsletter-style
2. Click on format menu, select columns
3. Any desired number of columns are presets-one or two or three or left or right b\can be selected.
4. Width and spacing can be fixed and equal columns width can be checked for uniformity
5. If newspaper columns are to be separated by a line, then check line between
6. Under apply to will be whole document if entire document is selected else we have to select a selected text.
7. Click ok

Inserting images from files and clip art:
1. Click where you want to insert the picture.
2. On the Insert menu, point to Picture, and then click From File.
3. Locate the picture you want to insert.
4. Double-click the picture you want to insert.
CLIP ART:
1. On the Insert menu, point to Picture, and then click Clip Art.
2. In the Clip Art task pane, in the Search for box, type a word or phrase that describes the clip you want or type in all or some of the file name of the clip.
3. To narrow your search, do one or both of the following:
 To limit search results to a specific collection of clips, in the Search in box, click the arrow and select the collections you want to search.
 To limit search results to a specific type of media file, in the Results should be box, click the arrow and select the check box next to the types of clips you want to find.
4. Click Go.
5. If you don't know the exact file name, you can substitute wildcard characters for one or more real characters. Use the asterisk (*) as a substitute for zero or more characters in a file name. Use the question mark (?) as a substitute for a single character in a file name.
6. In the Results box, click the clip to insert it.
Drawing Toolbar and Word Art:
1. Click in your document where you want to create the drawing.
2. On the Insert menu, point to Picture, and then click New Drawing.
A drawing canvas is inserted into your document.
3. Use the Drawing toolbar to add any shapes or pictures that you want.


WORD ART:
1. On the Drawing toolbar, click Insert WordArt .
2. Click the WordArt effect you want, and then click OK.
3. In the Edit WordArt Text dialog box, type the text you want.
4. Do any of the following:
• To change the font type, in the Font list, select a font.
• To change the font size, in the Size list, select a size.
• To make text bold, click the Bold button.
• To make text italic, click the Italic button.
Formatting Images:
1. Formnatting of the images can be achieved by selecting the image and double click on the picture, format picture dialog box appears.
2. The same can be achieved by selecting the tools menu > customize>tool bars tab>picture and click close.
Basic formatting features of an image
Resize a drawing
1. Select the drawing canvas
2. On the Drawing Canvas toolbar, do one of the following:
o To make the drawing canvas boundary larger without changing the size of the objects on the canvas, click Expand .
o To make the drawing canvas boundary fit tightly around the drawing objects or pictures, click Fit .
o To scale the drawing and make the objects and canvas proportionately smaller or larger, click Scale Drawing, and then drag the edges of the canvas.


Resize a picture or shape
1. Position the mouse pointer over one of the sizing handles
2. Drag the sizing handle until the object is the shape and size you want.
To increase or decrease the size in one or more directions, drag the mouse away from or toward the center, while doing one of the following:
o To keep the center of an object in the same place, hold down CTRL while dragging the mouse.
o To maintain the object's proportions, drag one of the corner sizing handles.
o To maintain the proportions while keeping the center in the same place, hold down CTRL while dragging one of the corner sizing handles.
Crop a picture
1. Select the picture you want to crop.
2. On the Picture toolbar, click Crop .
3. Position the cropping tool over a cropping handle and then do one of the following:
o To crop one side, drag the center handle on that side inward.
o To crop equally on two sides at once, hold down CTRL as you drag the center handle on either side inward.
o To crop equally on all four sides at once, hold down CTRL as you drag a corner handle inward.
4. On the Picture toolbar, click Crop to turn off the Crop command.
Text Box:
1. On the Drawing toolbar, click Text Box .
2. Click or drag in your document where you want to insert the text box
3. You can use the options on the Drawing toolbar to enhance a text box— for example, to change the fill color— just as you can with any other drawing object

Paragraphs:
Change line spacing
Select the text you want to change.
1. On the Formatting toolbar, point to Line Spacing, and then do one of the following:
o To apply a new setting, click the arrow, and then select the number that you want.
o To apply the most recently used setting, click the button.
o To set more precise measurements, click the arrow, click More, and then select the options you want under Line Spacing.
Change spacing before or after paragraphs
1. Select the paragraphs in which you want to change spacing.
2. On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then click the Indents and Spacing tab.
3. Under Spacing, enter the spacing you want in the Before or After box.
Change paragraph direction
1. Place the insertion point in the paragraph that you want to change, or select several paragraphs.
2. Do one of the following:
o To have text begin from the left, click Left-to-Right on the Formatting toolbar.
o To have text begin from the right, click Right-to-Left on the Formatting toolbar.
When you change the paragraph direction, Microsoft Word leaves justified and centered text as it is. In the case of left-aligned or right-aligned text, Word flips the alignment to its opposite. For example, if you have a left-to-right paragraph that is right aligned, such as the date at the top of a letter, clicking Right-to-Left results in a right-to-left paragraph that is left aligned.