3. Working with Visual Elements

You learn all about visual elements in this chapter.

In Chapter 2, I showed you some basic techniques for laying out a document page. Now that you have performed the initial setup for your document, it is time to begin adding design elements to the page. I show you how to add text to your document, and then we make things more interesting by adding various types of graphics.

Text Boxes

In this section, I teach you about text boxes. Before I do, you need to understand how Publisher differs from a word processor, such as Microsoft Word. Although Microsoft Word is capable of incorporating many of the same design elements as Publisher, the two applications are very different.

Microsoft Word is primarily geared toward ...

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