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How-To Pages

Microsoft Word                                   AppleWorks
                                                                                              Newsletters    Text Box    Brochure      Template/Stationary
 

How To Create A Newsletter in Appleworks: 

1. Change your margins – if you have a lot to say make them wider.  Click Format - Document.
2. Open the space down your page by hitting enter several times, then move your cursor back up to the top of the page.  This will allow you to get below your headline later.
3. Now we’ll set up the heading.  Headings work best if your clip art is in a text box.  Then we’ll draw a line to separate the heading from the body.
   1. To Create a Text Box – hold your option key & click and drag the text box out.  Give yourself plenty of room for a picture.
   2. To Insert clip art into the box:  Click inside the text box – File – Library and choose your picture.   It will insert inside the box you have drawn.  The File – Close the library.
   3. Add your text – you’ll want to work with the font size to make it larger. You can center it also and it will center between the left margin and the text box.
   4. Now let’s draw the separating line.  Your drawing toolbar needs to be on.  Look for the straight line on the toolbar and click it.  Point to where you want your line to begin, then click and drag to draw it out.
4. Setting section breaks so that you can make columns:
   1. Hit return until your cursor is where you want your body to begin
   2. Format – Section – Make sure start section says:  New Line – OK
   3. Format – Insert Section Break.
   4. Turn on 2 columns:  Under the gray section line, Format – section – and change the columns to 2. 
5. Now type your information.  Word will automatically put it into 2 columns as you go.
6. To Insert a Picture:  File – Insert – Choose the location of your pictures – OK.  If you want your picture centered, you can click the Center button just as you would if it were text. 

How to Create a Text Box

·         Hold down the Option / Alt key

·         Click and drag to create a text box.

·         To move the text box, click on the Arrow tool and then on the text box. You will see handles in the four corners.

·         Click in the center of the text box and drag to the desired location.

Setting up the Document to make a brochure

1. Open a new Word-processing document in AppleWorks.
2. From the File menu, select "Page Setup". In the dialog box that appears, make sure the Paper Size is set to "Letter" and the Orientation is set to Landscape:
   From the Format menu, select "Document" and enter ".25" for the Top, Bottom, Left, and Right margins.
3. From the Format menu, select "Section" and enter "3" for the Number of Columns, "3.1 in" for Column Width, and "0.6 in" for Space Between, as in the picture below. Leave everything else as is.

Organizing the content of your brochure

Assuming you want to print your brochure double-sided, you have to be aware of where each of the "panels" in your document will end up. Here is how you should set up your document:

Adding the text

When working with columns in AppleWorks, as you get to the bottom of one column, the text will flow and continue at the top of the next column. To force text to start at the top of the next column, hit the <Enter> key.

Other than this "Enter" key trick, all the other features of AppleWorks are available to you. But that's for another time...

Creating Templates/Stationary Files in AppleWorks

Often documents will be used over and over again with minor changes made to their contents. Or, templates are created for letterheads or newsletters. If these items are saved as regular documents in AppleWorks, they run the risk of being reformatted, damaged, or deleted. However, saving these items as Stationary files allows you to open them, make changes, and save them WITHOUT changing the originals.

To do this:

1. Create the original document to be used as a template.
2. Open the File menu and select "Save As". The "Save As" dialogue box will appear.

3. Click the Stationary radio button in the lower right corner of the dialogue box. (Notice that the lower right hand corner of the stationary icon is dog-eared while upper right hand corner of the document icon is dog-eared. This will help you identify the stationary files in your documents folder.)
4. Select the folder in which you wish to save the document. (In At Ease, this would generally be your documents folder.)
5. Give your document a name.
6. Click the Save button to save your document as a Stationary file.

To use the template:

1. Locate and open the template. (Look for the stationary icon.) Notice that it opens as an untitled document.
2. Make your changes to the document.
3. Open the File menu and select "Save As". (Note that even if you select "Save" you will still be prompted by the "Save As" dialogue box.)
4. Select the folder in which you wish to save the document. (In At Ease, this would generally be your documents folder.)
5. Give your document a name.
6. Click the Save button. Your original template is still in your documents folder unchanged.

Along with letterheads and newsletters, stationary files can be used to create notes to parents, quizzes and tests, sign-up sheets, assignments sheets, and other documents that share a similar form that is used over and over again