Welcome to Microsoft Publisher 2000, an easy-to-use desktop publishing program that helps students and teachers create eye-catching newsletters, flyers, brochures, programs, and Web sites. Publisher 2000 complements writing and learning activities in your classroom and can help you expand the visibility of your school events and activities.

Publishing is a necessary, final stage of the writing process. It gives students the opportunity to further develop their personal styles, reach out to an audience, and acknowledge their own work. Desktop publishing with Publisher 2000 moves your publications beyond word processing and helps you and your students create professional, distinctive publications without any design experience. Publisher 2000 lets you and your students focus on creativity, instead of learning how to use software.

What's in this book

In and Out of the Classroom with Publisher 2000 shows you how to use Publisher 2000 to enhance classroom activities for your students.

Some of the lessons in this guide focus on enhancing design and layout awareness, while others offer opportunities for students to develop writing skills. In this guide, you'll also find extra teaching tips and activities for using Publisher 2000 in your classroom.

The lessons in this guide are focused around a single theme to show you how each lesson can be incorporated into a unit. The theme used for these lessons centers around marine mammals. It includes presenting research, publishing information on the web, and organizing a fundraising event.

This theme may work for some teachers, while others may find it more helpful to use only one lesson while working on a unit. The purpose is simply to show you how to incorporate the publication types into unit planning. Use these lessons as you find them or combine them into a format that suits your particular needs.

• Getting Your Bearings
• Creating a Calendar
• Creating a Newsletter
• Promoting a School Organization
• Publicizing an Event
• Creating on the Web

New for 2000

Whether you are new to Microsoft Publisher or are already familiar with it, you will love the new features in Publisher 2000:

• Improvements and additions to Publisher 2000 have made it even easier to learn and use.

Publisher 2000 looks and works more like Microsoft Office 2000. The most obvious similarities include the familiar menus and toolbars. You can also add automatic bullets and numbering to your publications, similar to Word and Excel documents. The File Open/Save feature is common to all Microsoft applications, and themes are shared across Office so your Word 2000 documents, PowerPoint 2000 presentations, and Publisher 2000 publications will all share a consistent look and feel.

• Publisher 2000 has made it easier than ever for you to get professional looking results without professional design expertise.

New professional quality designs have been added with the Quick Publication Wizard, Catalog Wizard, 400 new publication templates, Flip Graphics, and Advanced Editing Toolbar.

• Publisher 2000 is your complete publishing solution.

Publisher 2000 publications can be printed to your black and white or color desktop printer, taken to a copy shop, or taken to a commercial printer, and printed just as more sophisticated publications are. Or you can publish your publication on the World Wide Web. New features for publishing include the Pack and Go Wizard, which makes it easy to pack a publication across multiple disks (including fonts, graphics, and text) for easy travel to a copy shop or commercial printer. New commercial printing support includes automatic conversion to spot or 4-color process (CMYK) with automatic color separations, as well as support for PANTONE® colors, Color Matching, and device independent layout. All of these features make it possible for you to create professional caliber publications.

Exploring the Lessons