Task9

CREATING NEWSLETTER-STYLE COLUMNS IN WORD

Arranging your text via columns is an essential part of creating a newsletter. Luckily with Word, that doesn’t involve inserting several text boxes (though you can certainly do it that way). What’s better is you can input your content first and then format it afterward.

There are a few ways of going about this, the first being applying a column style to the entire document. To do this, head over to the “Layout” tab and select “Columns.”

Once selected, a drop-down menu will appear. You can choose any of the options you like, and it will automatically apply to the entire document, as per the default setting. Let’s go ahead and select “Three.”

CREATING A NEWSLETTER FROM SCRATCH

STEP 1

Create a new Word document and click the "Page Layout" tab. Click the "Margins" icon in the Ribbon to reduce the default 1-inch margins to a half-inch. Click the "Columns" icon and then click "Two."

Step 2

Right-click the top edge of the page and select "Open Header." The header is unaffected by the two columns you set, making it an ideal place to insert the newsletter's title, or masthead.

Before editing the header, click the Header & Footer "Design" tab and then click the "Different First Page" check box. This option allows you to put the masthead on the first page without it appearing on other pages.

STEP 3

Type the title of the newsletter in the header, using the Home tab options to set the font and alignment. To insert an image in the header, like a company logo, click the Header & Footer "Design" tab and click the "Picture" icon.

STEP 4

Double-click anywhere near the center of the page to exit the header. Enter the rest of the newsletter just as you would any other Word document. To specify font styles and colors, for example, click the "Home" tab. To insert images and text boxes, click the "Insert" tab. To have text wrap around an image or text box, right-click the object and select "Wrap Text."

STEP 5

Save a completed newsletter by clicking the "Save" icon in the upper-left corner of the page and use the default DOCX format.

MY CLASSWORK: NEWSLETTER