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Hi, I'm Carrie Lynn with Keystone Learning Systems.
Welcome to Beginning Casemakers 6.5.
In this tape we're going to talk about how you get started with casemakers,
the elements that are on your screen, how you use help, how you work with the tool palette,
how you modify and manipulate shapes, how you work with views, entering text,
the story editor, simple paragraph formatting,
and then we're going to take it and put it all together by combining objects and text.
In this section we're going to go ahead and open up PageMaker,
discuss the elements that you see on your screen, discuss master pages and templates.
The first thing that we need to do to open up PageMaker is single click on the start menu,
which is normally located in the lower left-hand corner of your screen.
You can single click and let go and then use the mouse to go up to the program.
Then you'll select the Adobe, and then from there you'll see PageMaker 6.5,
and depending upon the size of your screen you may either see the next pop-up menu on the left or the right.
Go ahead and select Adobe PageMaker 6.5.
At this point just single click and we'll begin to load the program.
Depending upon the speed of your computer you may find this goes faster or slower than my screen.
Now to begin with you're going to see a couple elements that are on your screen to begin with.
For instance, the tool palette is located normally on the left-hand side of the screen.
If you're familiar with any older versions of PageMaker you're going to notice that this is significantly different.
There are several more tools that we have to use and we'll go ahead and learn about those in this section.
At the bottom of your screen you're going to see the control palette.
This palette will give us more information about the objects on our screen and we'll also discuss this later.
To open up a new document you simply need to click on the File menu,
then select New, and you can click on that to open up the Document Setup dialog box.
From here we have several different choices that we can make.
For instance, the page size.
We can choose either a standard letter which is 8.5 by 11, legal which is 8.5 by 14,
and we have a multitude of different document sizes to choose from.
If you're interested in something go ahead and click on it.
You'll see the dimensions show up in the dimensions,
and you can change the orientation of the page to either tall or wide.
You'll notice that once you click on wide it simply flip-flops the values in the dimensions.
Let's go ahead and return our page size back to the letter.
We'll keep it at tall.
Double-sided allows us to work in documents that we would use when we're putting together a book.
Our case right now, what we need to do is uncheck the double-sided.
But before we actually move on to the next option,
what I'd like to have you do is click again on double-sided,
and notice what's happening in the margins.
You'll see inside and outside, when double-sided is chosen,
when you uncheck double-sided, you'll see the margins change from left to right.
Try that again.
Now if you uncheck facing pages while double-sided is on, you won't notice any change.
Facing pages simply allows us to view two pages at the same time when we're working in PageMaker.
If we have facing pages off, then we'll see one page at a time.
Let's go ahead and take double-sided and turn that off.
Let's go ahead and adjust our margins so that all of them are the same.
At this point, the only one that's slightly different is the left margin.
We can go down with the mouse, single-click, and drag over the one to highlight it,
and then using your keyboard, type in.75.
And then we select OK.
We now get a picture of a page on our screen.
This page is going to allow us, or this is what we're going to use to create our document.
We have a couple more things that we need to talk about.
For instance, the title bar is located at the top of your screen.
Depending upon if your window is maximized or minimized,
you may notice the title, which is now untitled 1,
will change and become part of the window, or a floating window,
if we have this screen like this.
And you can see the untitled located here.
I'm going to go ahead and close this other palette
so that we can see the top right-hand corner of this window.
If we maximize it again, we're going to notice that title goes back up to the very top.
It also gives us maximum viewing.
Speaking of minimize and maximize, we have two choices.
If you look over on the right-hand side of your screen, you're going to see a little bar.
The next box will change depending upon what you've got selected.
Right now it's two boxes, and then we have an X.
The little bar minimizes, the second one maximizes, and the last one closes.
And you also have an exact duplicate of these three buttons on the actual window.
We want to minimize just the window we're working on
while leaving PageMaker, the shell, or the application open.
We simply click on the minimize.
I'm going to move my control palette out of the way a little bit
so that we can see down here.
If I want to open up that untitled window again,
I simply click on what used to be the minimize icon.
It's just changed a little bit, and it reopens it back up.
Now if I click on the minimize for the whole application, which is the very top one,
it's going to minimize PageMaker.
And if you're working on another application, for instance, Microsoft Word,
you could then go ahead and work on that application
without having to have PageMaker be a distraction.
If you want, or when you choose to want to work on that application again,
you can simply single click on it down in the start menu,
down on the status bar, and it will go ahead and open back up.
If you want to close PageMaker, you click on the very top X.
If you want to close just the window you're working on, you click on the bottom one.
You can also close the application by simply clicking on the upper left-hand icon
and selecting Close.
You can accomplish this by double clicking as well.
You can close the window by clicking on the lower icon in the left-hand corner
and also then choosing Close, or once again you can double click.
The scroll bars are located on the left-hand side of your screen,
as well as at the bottom.
There are four different ways to use the scroll bars.
The first way is to click on the arrow either at the top or the bottom of the scroll bar,
and with each single click of the mouse you're going to notice the screen moves up.
If you click at the bottom, each time you click the screen is going to move down.
You can actually click on the box that's located on the scroll bar.
You click, hold down with the mouse, and you drag.
Wherever you let go, you're guesstimating where you're going to end up on the page.
Try that again, move it down.
If you put it right in the middle, you should have your page almost be centered.
It might take a little bit of practice.
The next thing that you can do is click on the scroll bar itself.
If you click down underneath the scroll box,
you're going to notice that your page moves up a rather large amount.
What it's doing is it's showing you a screen size at a time or a window size at a time.
If you click above the scroll bar, you're going to move up, and below you're going to move down.
This is very effective when you're reading a document like in Microsoft Word,
and you want to see the next part of the text that you haven't read.
You can simply click down underneath that scroll box, and it will show you the next screen.
In PageMaker, in a smaller view,
you might not necessarily find that you're going to use this feature as often.
You have the same option down here on the horizontal.
One of the things that you may have noticed is as we're navigating around our screen,
we have a tremendous amount of white space located on the left, the right, and the top and the bottom of our page.
In fact, if we take the scroll bar and drag it all the way to the top for your vertical,
and all the way to the left on your horizontal,
you're going to notice that you don't see any part of your page at all.
When I first began using PageMaker, this often confused me
until I figured out that what it is is there's an area called the Pasteboard,
and the Pasteboard gives us a practice area to work on.
We can either try something out before, we can store things there.
I oftentimes use it when I'm working with clients,
and I'm not quite sure maybe what particular logo they may want.
So what I'll do is just give them several samples out of the Pasteboard,
and then when we're ready, we'll move them onto the page.
We've got the rulers, which are located on the left side of the screen, as well as the top.
These are going to show whatever measurement system that you're using.
Most people are more comfortable with inches, so that's what it's going to go ahead and show.
If you're working with picas or points, which we'll discuss later,
then it will show you that incremental measuring system at that time.
PageMaker can be used for many things.
A lot of people use it for advertising or marketing.
Included in some of those projects that you can use it for are brochures,
newsletters, business cards, letterhead, and almost anything that you can think of.
If you're looking to do maybe a CD cover, you can do that in PageMaker as well.
The next thing that we're going to cover is some templates that PageMaker automatically has built in.
These templates are going to give you a very good head start on getting a document put together.
To find the templates that are located in PageMaker, they've moved from previous versions.
In my opinion, not quite as easy to find, but once we show you the way,
you'll hopefully be using them frequently from here on out.
If you go to the Window menu located at the top of your screen,
then you're going to go to the Plug-in Palettes, and you're going to see a pop-up menu to the right.
In there is going to be something called Show Scripts.
Now, so far you haven't heard anything about templates, and we're getting to that point here in just a bit.
If you scroll down on the list in the Installed Scripts or the Script Palette,
you're going to see a folder that has templates to the right of it.
You can double-click on that to open it up, and once you do that,
you're going to see that there's many different choices available to us.
These are pre-formatted documents that are going to go ahead and give us a starting point
for the projects that we want to work on.
Let's see if we can find one that is going to work for what we want to do.
Let's go ahead and pick an invoice.
So all you do is you double-click, and it will open up after you see a lot of activity happening.
Don't worry, it's just doing its thing.
And at the end, we'll see a PageMaker document with a shell that we can use to start putting together a template.
I would encourage you to go ahead and explore many of the different templates that are available.
You'll find that they'll make using PageMaker, at least in the beginning, a lot easier.
Now that the invoice has finished going through the script,
which means it's running a series of steps to accomplish this,
you might want to use our scroll bars to take a look at what this invoice looks like.
For the sake of viewing, I'm going to go ahead and close the script window, and you can take a look.
Now if we move over to the right, I see some red type.
This red type is going to be kind of a hint or a tip about this particular template.
It says, fonts used in this template, Helvetica, this is a non-printing tip,
meaning they've taken this box and made it non-printing.
So for some reason, you did want to leave it there.
You could, and it wouldn't print.
And if we continue to look down and explore the document,
and click on elements, don't click and drag, but just go ahead and simply click using your pointer tool,
you're going to kind of get an idea of how this document is made up.
Another way we can do this by going to the edit menu, which is located at the top of your screen,
click on edit, and choose select all.
This is going to show you all of the text boxes that make up this document.
You might want to scroll down and take a look.
Now an additional piece of information that we haven't talked about that you will see on your screen
is located in the lower left-hand corner of your screen.
This is how you change between your master page and the document page.
The one that's black is the one that's selected.
Right now, number one is dark.
That means that we're on page one.
If we click once on the R page, that stands for the right master.
You'll notice that when we look at this page, there isn't anything on it.
A master page allows us to have an element show up on multiple pages.
For right now, all we need is the elements that show up on the document page number one,
and so we don't need to use anything from the master page,
and that's why the script didn't create anything on it.
If you want to modify something on this invoice, you simply need to click on the T tool,
which is the text tool.
To do so, you click once, let go, and then move on to your page.
You're going to notice that as your mouse moves over text, it changes from the pointer
to what's called an I-beam.
If you notice, the I-beam has a horizontal line slightly up from the bottom.
That will, in essence, be the tip of your pointer.
If you want to highlight the word invoice,
I'll move the tool bar here to pull it out of the way,
you can then type in something else.
Now you're noticing that the text is actually flowing over some of the other text that I've got.
To correct that, all we're going to do is click on the pointer,
click back on the text, and we'll learn more about this a little bit later on.
We're just widening the text box, and we're doing that by clicking and dragging.
And eventually, if you drag far enough,
we drag to about four and a half inches,
you'll see that this will now fit on one line,
and the information now lines up.
We've figured out how a script runs and then create the document.
The next task is to actually move around the document by changing our views.
We can increase the size of the document or what we see of it,
and we can reduce it.
This allows us to get a far away view as well as a close-up in case we want to work on some details.
Let's go ahead and take a look at that now.
To change the view of our document, we simply need to go to the View menu,
and you can click once and let go, and then use your mouse to navigate around inside of this menu.
We can zoom in, we can zoom out,
we can actually change the document to actual size, which is going to be equal to 100%,
or we can choose Fit in Window.
And the last one is Entire Pasteboard.
Let's take a look at each one of these.
If we zoom in, we're going to be zooming in by a small increment.
We can go back to the View menu and select Zoom Out.
We will move out by that same increment.
If we go back to the View menu and choose Actual Size,
this is going to blow the document up to 100%.
If we choose Fit in Window, it's going to take the document and shrink it to fit in the window.
One of the nice things about PageMaker is that if you change the size of your window,
which we first need to minimize the window, so if you go to the right-hand side of your screen
and click on the, it's actually the Maximize button,
but it will allow us to make it a floating window.
We can then go down to the bottom right-hand corner of our screen
and change the size of the window.
And you'll notice that the document is adjusting as we change the size of the window.
So the smaller it is, the smaller it makes the document.
This only happens when you're in the Fit in Window view.
So as we make it larger, the document will also increase.
Let's go ahead and move up to the top right-hand corner of this window
and click on the Maximize button again, and we'll see the document adjust.
Now heading back to the View menu, we then have the option of Entire Pasteboard.
Remember, we talked about the Pasteboard being an area that we could work in
while not actually working on the actual document.
And there is a tremendous amount of area.
Look at all of that white space that's around that document.
We can store, work, try things in this area.
It's like working on your desk, and you have all of this area to work with.
Now if we want to return it back to Fit in Window,
we can simply go back to the View menu and select Fit in Window.
The next option on the View menu is the Zoom To.
Here we're going to have some predefined sizes that we can use
to move around and change the view within our document.
We have 25, 50, 75, 100, 200, and 400%.
Now 400 is going to be pretty big.
Let's go ahead and take a look at that.
You're going to notice that the elements on your screen are very large.
It hasn't altered the size of the page at all.
It simply has brought the document closer so that we can view it in more detail.
I have found that for myself, this is a great view to work in when I need a lot of detail,
but it's a little bit hard to navigate around simply because the document is so close.
So I use this view rather sparingly.
If we go back to the View menu and select Zoom To, we can also choose 100%.
This is, if you look at the shortcut, this is Control 1.
This is the same shortcut as actual size.
Let's go ahead and try using our keyboard to activate that.
You hold down your Control key and you hit the 1 key.
You've now actually changed your view to 100% or actual size
without having to go and access the View menu.
Let's go ahead and change it now back to Fit and Window.
And now that you're familiar with how to read the shortcut,
that little symbol is the Control key, and that's a zero.
So in the future, when you want to use the keyboard as opposed to using the menus,
simply look at the symbols located on the right of the command and try them out.
In that instance, the entire Pasteboard shortcut would be the Shift key,
the Control key, and the Zero key.
So to do the Fit and Window, we're going to hit Control 0,
and that takes the document and makes it fit within the window.
In this section, we covered how to open up PageMaker,
what the elements that you see on your screen are,
as well as how to open up a template and change your views.
In this section, we're going to discuss Help.
Help is a very important feature that we can use in many different ways.
We're going to go ahead and take a look at the four different ways that we can use it.
The Help menu is located at the top of your screen.
All you have to do is, at the end, near Window, click once on it,
and you'll see Help Topics, Shortcuts, and About PageMaker.
Let's go ahead and go to the Help Topics.
You'll notice that we can also access Help Topics by hitting your F1 key
located at the top of your keyboard.
Normally, your Help screen will show up with the Contents tab visible.
This is like a table of contents, like when you're reading a book.
You can simply click on an item, or actually double-click on the item,
and it will open it up, and you'll have several different topics to choose from.
One of the topics that we'll be exploring are the palettes.
If you double-click on the palettes, we're going to notice that there's Toolbox,
Control Palette, and several different other ones available to us.
As we talk about, in the next section, the Toolbox and how to use the different elements,
we'll be taking a look at the Toolbox Help Topic.
To use this, all you do is you click on an element,
and it gives you an idea of what that specific tool does.
Now, one of the things that Help has is you might notice above the word Toolbox
there is a green underlined word, palettes.
That's a jump topic.
All you have to do is click on it once, and it jumps you to that specific topic.
And for the instance on this one, it takes us to palettes,
and it shows us the multiple palettes that we can access help on.
Let's go back to Help Topics.
We can close one of the elements in the Table of Contents,
and you'll see that it will close the book, so to speak.
If you double-click on it, you'll notice the little book opens.
So that's one way of using Help.
The next way is the Index, in the next tab.
This is if you need to find something specific that you can't find within the contents.
You can type in a word.
We can type in Help.
It will then allow us or take us to an index entry, Help command,
which we can then click once on and click on Display, or we can double-click on it.
And this will tell us a little bit more about that specific item.
We can hit the back button located next to the Help Topics button within the Help window,
and that will navigate us backwards within Help.
We could print a specific topic, if we'd like,
and there are some additional options that we can choose as well.
We could copy a topic, print one.
We can change the font to small, normal, or large.
We can always choose to keep Help on top,
meaning that on top of anything that's open on our screen,
which includes other applications and windows.
And we can choose to use our system colors.
We can navigate forward by clicking on the two arrows at the far right.
And we're going to see that we're navigating right now because we were in the Palette section of Help.
We're navigating through the Palette Help screens.
And we can click on different elements as we go and have an explanation.
If we hit Help Topics again located in the upper left-hand corner of our screen,
it's going to take us back to the last place that we were at, which was the Index.
We could highlight Help command, which is the last thing that we were taking a look at,
and type in something else if we wanted to.
We just recently talked about View, so let's go ahead and take a look at the View command.
View will get us close.
We might find that navigating through this particular part of the Index,
we might find the topic that fits a little bit better.
If that's the case, you can just simply use your mouse to click on it once.
So if we say View in Custom View Area and select Pages, and then select Display,
we get some additional information about this specific topic.
At the bottom, we're also going to get Jump Topics that allow us to jump to a different topic
that may be associated with the current Help topic that we're viewing.
And all you do is click on them.
Let's go ahead and go back to Help Topics,
and let's talk about the third part of Help that is available to us.
It's the Find tab.
This is slightly different.
This allows us to enter in a series of words, for instance, like a concept.
And what we can use here if we want is eventually we're going to be interested in creating a color library.
So we can type in color library, and it's going to show us in window number two
some of the matching words that it found in our search.
So you can click on one item and look at the topics that show up under it,
and do this repeatedly for the three that show up.
The second and the third library bring up a topic, creating your own color library.
We can single click on that.
It's already selected, so there's no need to do that.
But if for some reason you wanted to choose something else, you just use your mouse and click on it.
Once you've selected the choice that you're interested in, click on the Display button,
and it will walk you through the steps on how to create a color library.
And we will discuss this in video three, in the advanced video.
So we'll go back to Help Topics.
Now we talked about four different ways to use Help, but there's only three tabs.
There's one more option that I want to talk about.
For now what we're going to do is we're just going to go ahead and cancel out of this,
and we're going to cancel out of the Help.
The fourth way is Context Sensitive Help, and we're going to take a look at that now.
Context Sensitive Help actually requires you to use your keyboard.
What we're going to do is hold down the Shift key on your keyboard,
and then hit the F1 key, and you should notice that your mouse is now a question mark.
Instead of being a pointer or something else, there's a question mark.
How you use Context Sensitive Help at this point is you're going to go up into one of the menus,
whichever one you have a question about.
So you might want to take a look through all of them
and see if there's something specific that you want to know about.
Then you just simply go down, you highlight whatever item it is that you have a question about,
and you let go.
And that will take you immediately into Help about that specific topic.
That's going to save you from having to navigate through Help to find the answer to your question.
At this point, let's go ahead and close Help.
In this section, we discuss the four ways to use Help.
One of the most important things about Help is that it can help you to answer your own questions.
So whenever you get stuck, don't forget that Help is available.
And the four different ways that you can use it are the three tabs that are located within the Help window,
as well as Context Sensitive Help, which you access by holding down the Shift key and the F1 key.
In this next section, we're going to go ahead and discuss the Tool Palette,
the variety of different tools that are available to us, how to use them, and how to modify them.
We still have the invoice open on our screen.
If we want to save this invoice before we begin to have our discussion about the Tool Palette,
we need to create a folder on our hard drive, which will allow us to save our invoice into.
To do this, you can actually do it from the Save screen or the Save dialog box.
Let's go ahead and go to the File menu, select Save.
From within the Save screen, you need to navigate to the C drive,
which we can do by clicking on the pull-down list and choosing C.
Your default will normally be the PageMaker 6.5 folder,
and we can create a new folder here called Training.
We also need to remember to change the name of our file or our invoice,
and so now let's just go ahead and call it Invoice,
and what we want to do is we want to take this file and put it inside of the Training folder.
So we'll go ahead and double-click on the Training, and then we'll save the invoice inside of the Training folder.
We can see that we're in the Training folder by looking at the top of your screen,
and you'll see the Save In and the Training.
Go ahead and select Save.
We'll notice if you look at the title bar at the top of your screen
that we can see a path to where this document is located.
It's located on the C drive in the Training folder, and it's called Invoice.
The dot P65 indicates that it's a PageMaker 6.5 document.
Now let's talk about our tools.
As we discussed in the previous section in Help,
we can access Help about the tool palette
and then click on the individual elements to see what each tool does.
Let's go ahead and do that now.
Remember that the Help menu is located at the top of your screen at the right of your menu bar.
Go to Help, select Help Topics.
We'll go to the Contents tab.
Then go to Palettes, and choose Toolbox.
Now what you see in front of you may not look like there's a lot of information about the toolbox,
but if you click on each individual tool,
you're going to get a little pop-up box that's going to explain more about that specific tool.
So why don't you go ahead and navigate all the way down through the Help,
and I find that it's better to click on one tool,
and then when you're done reading the text, click away, and then click on the next tool.
The toolbar is broken up into several different categories.
We have shapes or drawing tools down here located in the bottom six.
There are actually kind of sections.
There's a box around the lines and the squares and the circles.
We then have some navigational tools.
The pointer tool, the text tool allows us to create text,
the cropping allows us to work with graphics,
and the rotational tool allows us to actually manipulate the rotation of an object.
The bottom part of the tool palette is going to be tools that allow us to move around within our document.
The hand tool allows us to move as if we're using the scroll bars,
and the magnifying allows us to click in a specific area of our document and increase our view to that area.
So once you're done exploring Help in the toolbox, just go ahead and close the Help screen,
and we'll go back and now actually begin to use many of these tools.
The first thing that we want to do is we really don't need the invoice document anymore,
so let's go ahead and close that.
Go to the File menu and select Close.
And we're left with PageMaker open, but no document open.
So the first thing that we need to do is go to the File menu and select New.
And this time, for the sake of variety, let's go ahead and change the orientation of our page from tall to wide.
Wide is also the same as landscape.
Tall is also the same as portrait.
So if you see any of those words used in any other application, that's what they're referencing.
We're going to go ahead and turn double-sided off, and let's change our margins to make them consistent.
We'll change the left margin to.75 and select OK.
We'll now notice that our page is set up horizontally, or landscape, which is also wide.
And the first tool that we're going to go ahead and talk about is the Line tool.
The Line tool is the third tool located on the left-hand side of your tool palette.
To select a tool in the tool palette, you simply need to click on it once and let go.
You'll notice that once you move your mouse onto the page,
the icon will normally change based on whatever tool it is that you have selected.
In this case, we're on a drawing tool, so the icon or the pointer is going to become a plus sign.
To draw a line, you simply click once and continue to hold down the mouse and drag.
If you don't let go of the mouse right now, you can change the shape of the line.
You'll see those changes.
Whenever you do feel that the line is what you want, you simply let go.
You'll notice that a line will show up, and on either end of the line you'll have what's called selection handles.
The selection handles will allow us to manipulate the line, either length, angle,
and it also allows us to see the line is selected so that we can manipulate the width of the line,
the color of the line, and a variety of different things.
Let's go ahead and click a different tool now.
The Perpendicular Line tool is right next to the Line tool.
It reacts just a little bit differently when you use it to draw a line.
Let's go ahead and try that.
Click once, drag, just like you did before.
Now if you try to draw anything like a 15-degree angled line or just a very subtle angled line,
you're going to find that you can't do that.
You're going to be constrained to draw a horizontal, vertical, or 45-degree angle line.
When you let go, you'll notice that once again you get the selection handles
that are visible on either end of the line.
Let's go ahead and go back to the Pointer tool.
You'll notice that right now neither line has the selection handles visible.
That is because neither line is selected.
To select a line, you simply use the Arrow tool and you click once on the line.
Now remember that the very tip of the arrow is your active or your hot spot,
so use that to click on the line.
Then you can move over a selection handle, click, hold down, and drag, and modify the line
and change the angle.
And if you want to actually move the line to a different place,
instead of clicking on a selection handle, you click on the line itself, hold down, and drag.
Let's try it with the other line.
This is the constrained line that we used or that we drew.
If you click on it and drag, you're going to notice that now it acts just like the other line.
Yet when we first originally drew it, we were able to draw it only at a horizontal, vertical,
or 45-degree angle line.
If we do want to keep those properties or have the line react in that same way,
we can do so by holding down a key on the keyboard, the Shift key.
You hold down the Shift key with one hand, use the mouse with the other,
and continue to hold down the Shift key while you're doing this.
You click on the selection handle of the line, and you try to now resize it.
You're going to notice that it acts like the constrained line when you originally drew it.
You do need to remember to let go of the mouse key before you let go of the Shift key.
Let's try this with the diagonal line or the line that we drew over on the left-hand side.
Hold down your Shift key, click on the selection handle, and now try to reshape or resize that line.
You're going to notice that it acts just like the constrained line.
So no matter which line you draw or use to draw your lines originally,
whether it's the line tool or the constrained line tool,
if you hold down the Shift key when you're resizing the line,
you'll find that it will have those constrained properties.
If you don't hold down the Shift key while resizing a line, it will work and act just like the original line tool.
Now, lines in themselves actually can be more interesting than just simply drawing them and resizing them.
We can actually change the width of the line.
To do so, we're going to access the element menu at the top of our screen,
and we're going to have some choices for the stroke.
The stroke is the line width,
and you're going to see that you have several different choices available to you,
and they're kind of giving you samples of what those choices are going to look like.
Pick whatever looks interesting to you, and then let go.
You should notice that your line has now changed or adjusted based on the choice that you made in the element menu.
Let's try it on the other line.
This time, let's pick something a little bit different.
Going back to the element menu, choosing Stroke, and we have a different line.
Now, you may find that the options that are available to you aren't...
isn't the option that you want.
You may want something a little bit more specific.
In this case, you can go to Custom.
Any time you see three dots, it means it's called an ellipse,
and what it will do is pull up a dialog box.
Don't expect a pop-up menu to appear.
Simply select Custom, let go,
and here we can choose the style of the line that we want,
and then we can choose the weight.
Now, the weight is width points.
72 points make up an inch.
So, if you wanted a half-inch line, you could do 36 points, select OK,
and now this line is going to be a half an inch wide.
If you want to see this line in more detail, although it's pretty large as is,
you could go to the View menu and either zoom in,
go to Actual Size, or actually choose one of the predefined zoom values,
for instance, 200.
And you're going to see that line in much more detail as the view is increased.
Let's go ahead and use our keyboard to change our view back to Fit in Window.
Press Control 0, and we'll see the line on our screen.
Now, let's go ahead and choose the other line.
One thing about views, when we're wanting to see the detail about the lines,
is all we have to do is have the line selected.
And remember, you can tell it's selected by clicking on the line,
and the selection handles will show up.
We then go to the View menu, and we can change the value of the zoom.
And with whatever line was selected, when we change the value of the view,
it's going to go ahead and bring that specific item to the center of our screen.
It'll save us from having to scroll around the screen to find it.
Let's go ahead and return back to Fit in Window, Control 0,
and then let's talk about some of the other tools that are available.
The next tool on the Tool Palette that we're going to discuss is the Rectangle Tool,
as well as the Circle Oval Tool, which is called the Ellipse Tool.
The next tool on our Tool Palette that we're going to go ahead and talk about
is the Square Tool, or the Rectangle Tool.
You can draw a square or a rectangle,
and we'll use a shortcut that we used earlier to do that.
But first, let's draw a rectangle.
Remember, to select the tool, you single-click and let go,
move on to your page, you'll see the plus sign, click and drag,
and if based upon how you move the mouse, you'll get a very obvious rectangle.
You may get something a little bit more like a square.
Let's go ahead and draw a circle.
Click on the Circle Tool or the Ellipse Tool, click once, let go,
move on to your page, and you draw a circle.
Now let's talk about selecting the circle or the rectangle.
To do so, you need to click on your Arrow Tool.
Go over to your Tool Palette, click on the Arrow Tool,
and try to click on your circle.
Now if you click in the middle of your circle,
you won't see that the circle becomes selected.
If you click on the edge of the circle, you will notice it becomes selected.
PageMaker, when you first originally draw shapes in PageMaker,
it comes in like a wire frame, so it's transparent,
almost as if you could reach your hand through it.
So to select an item, you need to click on the wire or the frame or the edge of it.
And once you do that, we can manipulate this object just like we did the line.
We can click on the circle and drag it.
We can click on one of the selection handles.
Now in a circle, it's a little bit unusual because the selection handle
doesn't actually lay on the edge of the circle when it comes to the corners.
But clicking on the corner of the circle does still allow you to manipulate the shape of the circle.
And we can change the shape to fit more of what we might have in mind.
Let's go ahead and adjust the color of the circle.
We already know where that's located, but we didn't really do that when we were working with the lines.
We can change the fill to a different pattern, and yet still we haven't talked about colors.
So let's go ahead and change the pattern and then we'll talk about colors.
Paper is going to be white. Solid is going to be a solid of whatever color you've chosen.
And then we have a variety of different patterns available to us.
So for now, let's pick a pattern.
Do the same thing with your rectangle.
Go up to the element menu, choose fill, and this time let's choose solid.
We're going to notice that with the objects either filled with a solid color or a pattern,
that we can now click within the middle of the shape to select it.
Let me show that to you again.
I clicked over in some white area to deselect any objects I had selected,
and then I clicked back again on the shape and I've selected it.
Now I can just simply click anywhere on it and drag it, and it will now move the oval.
The same thing with the rectangle.
Now let's talk about that color that we talked about recently.
We're going to go up to the element menu.
And if you look under fill, you won't really see anything that has to do with color.
If you look under stroke, you won't see anything there either.
If you go to fill and stroke, that's where we're going to be able to see the option of changing the color.
We can change the fill, which is going to be very similar to the fill menu,
or the fill option under the element menu.
We can change patterns, color, solid from here.
To change the color, all you do is click on the downward pointing arrow
or the pull down menu for the color and make your choice there.
So I'll go ahead and pick blue.
The tint is the shade of the color.
If we have a solid fill and blue, it means we're going to get a very solid intense blue.
If we don't necessarily want that, we can change the tint,
and that's going to show us predefined values in increments of 5%.
If we don't like that specific value, let's say we want it 72,
we can just type that value in ourselves.
We can also change the color and the weight of the line around our shape.
To do that, we're going to modify the options under stroke,
which we can make a little bit thicker, 4 point.
We can change the color to green, and we can change the tint if we wanted to.
Let's for now leave it as the way that it is, select OK,
and we'll see our changes reflected on the screen.
Let's repeat this for the oval.
We go back up to the element menu, select fill and stroke,
and then make the changes based on what it is that we would like to do.
If you don't want that pattern anymore, you can change it to a different pattern.
We can then add a color to the pattern itself, and we can change the tint.
If we wanted to, we could get rid of the line or the stroke,
and we can select OK, and we can see what that looks like.
Most of the time when you're using a pattern, a line or a stroke around the edge
is going to help the eye to keep that pattern.
It's going to help you visually look at that shape.
So let's go ahead and modify the stroke or the line weight
so that we can add one around the shape.
To do that, we went up to the element menu, selected stroke,
and then chose whatever it was that we were interested in changing it to.
We just got done discussing the rectangle and the ellipse tool.
If you look right next to those tools on your screen,
you're going to notice there's another rectangle and another ellipse.
We're going to go ahead and talk about what the differences are
between those two tools and the ones that we just got done discussing.
The tool to the right of the rectangle tool is called the rectangle frame tool.
It will allow us to draw a rectangle just like we just got done doing.
However, when we get done drawing that, we're going to have a big X in the middle of it.
The difference between this tool and the rectangle tool
is that this particular tool can hold a shape inside of it.
We can put text into it or we can put a graphic.
We're going to learn more about that later on.
But for now, let's talk about how we can change the fill and the stroke
of this particular shape.
You'll find that it is exactly the same as the regular plain old rectangle.
It has some handles that are in addition to what we are used to seeing on the rectangle.
I'm going to go ahead and get my arrow tool and we'll take a look at that.
If I select both items on my screen,
you're going to see that the rectangle at the bottom doesn't have what's called a window shade
that our rectangle frame tool does.
The window shade handle indicates that this can hold text.
And that's why that is there.
Let's go ahead and take a look at the circle
or the ellipse frame tool as it's appropriately called.
We can simply draw an ellipse.
It will also have these little handles indicating that it can hold text.
We can also manipulate and change the fill and stroke of the circle
just as we did the other one.
Now you might wonder, at least on my choices,
why my circle didn't fill with a color.
Let's go ahead and take a look at what my choices were
and we'll talk about why that didn't occur.
I'm going to go back up to the element menu, choose fill and stroke.
We had a fill of none and a color of none.
If we change the fill to solid, but our color is still none,
let's take a look at what that does.
There's still no color.
Let's go back up to the element menu, choose fill and stroke.
And this time, let's change the fill to solid and the color to blue.
And then let's select OK.
And now we will see that our shape will have blue.
That's a solid fill.
Now when we were working with lines,
we held down the Shift key to constrain the line as we were editing our line.
We can do the same thing when we're working with squares and circles.
In fact, the Shift key is what is going to allow us
to make a perfect circle or a perfect square.
To do this, all we do is click on a shape
and your arrow tool is the tool that you should have selected.
Click on the rectangle that we drew near the bottom of our screen,
hold down your Shift key,
and then click on one of the handles, the selection handles,
and begin to resize the shape.
You're going to notice that it snaps or constrains it to be a perfect square.
Remember, the key is that you absolutely have to let go of the mouse
before you let go of the Shift key.
Let's try that with one of our ovals.
Click on one of your ovals, hold down the Shift key,
click on one of the selection handles.
You can either click on a corner or you can click on one of the middle ones.
If you click on one of the middle ones,
you're going to notice that it still converts it to a circle,
and the shape reacts slightly different than if you click on a corner.
Try both ways.
Next, let's go ahead and just for practice,
do this with the other shapes we've got on our screen.
Hold down the Shift key, click on a handle, and then reshape the shape.
Let's go ahead and do that with the square.
Hold down the Shift key and begin to reshape, and you'll have a square.
Now, remember to move an element on your screen,
you simply click anywhere in the middle,
especially if it already has a fill applied to it, you can do that.
If it doesn't have a fill, then remember you need to click on the wire frame
or the edge of the shape.
It's important when you're changing the fill and stroke of a shape
that you have the shape selected.
There's another option that you can use in addition to that,
is that you can change some of those preferences before you draw a shape,
and then every shape that you draw after that will have that same fill and stroke.
Let's take a look at that now.
As we've already discussed, you can click on an item,
and then change the color and the fill and the stroke about that specific item.
If you don't have an item selected and you make changes,
this is what we're going to see how this can actually help us.
We go to the element menu, and we either change the fill right now
or the stroke right now.
We can also go into fill and stroke and make both several choices within this window.
Let's go ahead and change the fill to a solid.
Let's try yellow.
And we'll take the stroke of the line and leave it black,
but let's change that to two points, and select OK.
We aren't going to see anything happen on our screen right now.
What will happen is when we draw shapes from here on out.
So if we go over to the tool palette and click on the square tool,
and then we click and drag a square or rectangle on our screen,
we're going to see that it's filled with yellow,
and it has a two-point border or a stroke around the edge.
If we click on the rectangle frame tool and we repeat this,
we're going to notice that it is also filled with yellow.
So if you're needing to draw a shape that has a certain color
and a certain fill repeatedly,
it's certainly within your best interest to go to the element menu
and to modify the fill and stroke so that every shape that you draw
in the future has those elements.
And we'll try the circles just to show that they also are affected.
And this time try drawing a circle holding down the Shift key.
You'll find that as you draw the shape,
it automatically constrains it to be a perfect circle.
You can also do this with any of the squares.
In fact, you can do this with any of the drawing tools.
Now let's say that we actually don't want our shapes
to be drawn with yellow anymore.
The next step that we would have to do is to turn that off.
So let's go ahead and select our arrow tool again.
And in doing so, we've deselected or unselected everything that's on our page.
If we have an item selected like the square or rectangle,
then any changes that we make will affect just that particular item.
If we don't have anything selected,
any of the changes that we make to the fill and the stroke
are going to affect items that we draw in the future.
So to return this back to the way that it was,
we're going to go to the Element menu, choose Fill and Stroke,
and change the fill from solid to none,
and the color from yellow to none,
and change the stroke from two points back to one point, and select OK.
Let's test and make sure that this works.
We're going to go over to the tool palette and select the rectangle tool.
And this time we're going to draw a perfect square.
Remember to draw a perfect square, you hold down the Shift key.
So I'm going to hold down the Shift key on my keyboard before I begin to draw.
Draw a square, let go of the mouse, then let go of the Shift key,
and I will draw in a square.
Notice it's not filled with yellow, nor does it have a two-point stroke.
It's also see-through, as we talked about earlier.
So what I did is I went and changed to the arrow tool
so that we can move this shape around,
and you're going to see that as we move it over other items,
it's transparent, there is no fill.
The next thing that we're going to talk about is the polygon shape
and many of the settings that we can use to manipulate that specific shape.
Let's go ahead and take a look at that now.
The polygon tool is located underneath the ellipse or the circle tool,
and how you select it is just like you select any other tool.
You simply click on it once, let go, and then move on to your page.
Now the challenge for us is to find a place where we can actually draw the shape.
Let's go ahead and use the Pasteboard.
To do so, we're going to move down to the bottom of our screen
and take the scroll bar and move over a little bit.
We're going to find that when we move back onto our screen,
we still have the pointer, which is a plus sign,
and we're still going to be able to draw the polygon.
So we're simply going to click and drag, and we're going to end up with a polygon.
This particular shape we can actually modify and make it look completely different than it looks now.
To do this, all we have to do is go up to the Element menu and choose Polygon Settings.
This is going to open up a dialog box, which is going to allow us to manipulate this shape.
Let me move this box over just a little bit so that we can see what changes are made.
We can also see this within the preview.
We're going to go ahead and change the number of sides.
If you know the number of sides, you can simply enter that value in,
or you can use the arrows on the scroll bar, or you can drag the scroll box itself.
I think ending up with about nine or ten sides would be good.
We can then also make a star out of it, and that's the next scroll bar down.
So go ahead and start insetting some of the star, and you'll see what happens in the preview.
And then you can select OK once you've gotten the shape to look the way that you want,
and then you'll immediately see the changes on your screen.
Now one thing about PageMaker, if you haven't already noticed, is that the tool that we just got done using,
if we go back over to the tool palette,
the polygon tool is the one that we were just using and that we drew the shape with.
It's also what is still selected.
If you want to move a shape or manipulate the size of a shape,
you will have to go back up to the arrow tool, as we've been doing, click on it once to select it.
And in that process, everything becomes unselected.
And then for us to change this specific item or this polygon, we're going to have to click on it again.
Remember that if we click in the middle of it, it's transparent, so it won't be selected.
To change the color and the stroke of this particular shape is the same that we've been doing for the circles and the squares,
we're going to go back up to the element menu and choose Fill and Stroke.
And here we can make the changes that we want that will affect this polygon.
And now we have a star that's filled with blue with a black border.
Let's try drawing another polygon.
This time, we're going to use the polygon frame tool.
And we're going to draw one right underneath the one that we just drew.
Now this time, I began drawing the shape, and you can see I'm manipulating and changing it right now.
If you hold down the Shift key at any point during drawing the shape, you're going to be able to constrain it.
And in turn, this will keep it proportional, much like we did with the squares and the circles.
Once we're done, we let go of the mouse, then we let go of the Shift key, and then it's business as usual.
We go back to the element menu, choose Polygon Settings, and then manipulate the polygon based on what it is that we're looking for.
And then select OK when you're done, and then your shape will now have those changes.
Let's go back up to the element menu, and then make some changes with the Fill and Stroke.
And this time, we have a much different looking shape, one because of the polygon settings, and two because of the fill and line choices that we made.
Let's go back and select our arrow tool, and we'll go ahead and move that particular polygon on top of the polygon that we drew first,
and kind of get a combination of both, which will give us a different shape.
The next thing that we want to talk about is rotating graphics.
To do so, you have to have the object that you want to rotate selected.
This is obviously going to work better with squares or rectangles.
Circles, we're not going to see much of a rotation on, but let's go ahead and select one of the squares that we have on our screen.
And then the rotation tool is the one that's directly under the arrow tool on the left-hand side of your tool palette.
Once on it, let go, and now you don't actually have to physically click on the shape to rotate it.
It's already selected.
All you have to do is click somewhere on your screen, and that's going to become the axis or the rotational point.
You simply click, hold down, and before you begin to move your mouse a lot, what I'd encourage you to do is drag to your right.
That's going to drag a handle. The longer the handle, the more control you're going to have.
So as you begin to move your mouse, you'll see the shape move.
If you take that handle and drag to your left, the thinner the handle, the more you're going to be able to spin the shape and the faster it's going to move.
So when you're first beginning to use the rotational tool, I highly encourage a much longer handle.
When you're done, simply let go of the mouse, and then you'll see the shape as it's rotated.
Let's try this again on a different shape.
The first step, again, is to click on your arrow tool, and then click on your shape.
The next step is to click on the rotational tool.
Then you click anywhere on your screen. You can actually click on the shape itself, drag your handle to the right, and then rotate the shape.
And we're going to use our scroll bars to move the screen over so that we can see the shape that we just rotated.
The last thing that we can do is all of these squares that we've drawn have square corners. They're not rounded.
There is an option to make those corners rounded, and we're going to go ahead and talk about that now.
To do so, we first have to be able to select the shape. And to select the shape, we need to go back and get our arrow tool again.
We're going to click on the arrow tool, click on one of our squares, and we have two choices about how we can change the roundness of the corners.
The first choice is to go up to the element menu and choose rounded corners. Here we have several different choices, six to be specific.
The top three aren't going to be as noticeable as the bottom three. So let's go ahead and pick the middle bottom and select OK.
And we're going to notice that the corners of our square have rounded. If you really can't see that, what you can do is change your view to something larger, and you'll see it in more detail.
Let's go up to our view menu and go to the Zoom To and choose 200%.
And then we'll scroll around a little bit, and then you'll be able to see the corners or the rounding of the corners in much more detail.
Let's go ahead and talk about the second way that you can access the rounded corners dialog box.
You can double-click on the rectangle tool itself, which will pull up the rounded corners.
And we can choose a rounded corner and select OK. Now that didn't actually change the shape that we were on.
What it did do, though, is change the roundness of the corners of the shape that we were to be drawing.
So let's try that again. We're going to go back and get our arrow tool. We're going to double-click on the rectangle tool.
It will pull up the rounded corner option, and we can choose the one that we're interested in, select OK, and then we can begin to draw our shape, which will automatically then have the rounded corners.
Now if we want to manipulate the big yellow box that we had originally changed the corners on, let's go back to the arrow tool, click on the shape.
Now remember, it's filled with a solid yellow, so we don't have to actually click on the edge. We can click in the middle of the shape, and it will be selected.
And then go back to the element menu, and choose rounded corner, and pick something different if we wanted to.
In this section, we talked in detail about which tools on your toolbar allow you to draw shapes, and then how you manipulate those shapes once you've actually got them drawn.
We've talked about rounded corners, polygon, and polygon settings.
We've also talked about the polygon frame tool, the rectangle frame tool, and the ellipse frame tool, and how they differ from their counterparts, the rectangle, the ellipse, and the polygon tool.
In this next section, we're going to go ahead and discuss how we select multiple items on our page, how we can make changes to them, as well as how we can group them and work with them.
We're zoomed in right now, as we were focusing on the rounded corners.
Let's go ahead and change our view, which we can do by hitting the control key and the zero key on our keyboard, and it will zoom us out.
We have many different shapes that we have drawn on our document.
We've had much practice with selecting one shape, now we want to get some practice on selecting multiple shapes.
Let's go ahead and go over to the tool palette and select the arrow tool.
I want to talk about the different ways that you can select items on your page.
The first way that we already know about is to simply click and select an item.
You know it's selected by simply looking at the edges, and you'll see the selection handles show up.
We also know that those selection handles themselves allow us to change and manipulate the size of the shape.
We've talked about the shift key allowing us to constrain the shape as we draw it, to like a perfect square or perfect circle.
That shift key will also allow us to select more than one item at a time.
So by continuing to hold down the shift key on your keyboard, you can click on a circle and another square.
And what's going to happen, if you haven't noticed, is that each item is now selected at the same time.
With all three of these items selected, you can click in the middle or on any of these three items, hold down and drag,
and you'll notice that all three items will move at one time.
Now if you click off of those items, in white space for instance, you'll notice that they become unselected.
And if you try to move the square, you will only move the square.
You no longer have the circle or the blue square selected, so they won't move as well.
The additional thing that you use to select multiple items for is to delete multiple items at the same time.
To delete a single item, you simply click on it and you hit delete.
To delete multiple items, you simply need to have multiple items selected.
So let's click on our line and our other square or rectangle.
And remember that this particular rectangle isn't filled with a color or a pattern.
So in order for us to select it, we have to click on the wire frame or the edge of it.
Now what I just did is I unselected an item by continuing to hold down the shift key and clicking on it.
If for some reason I had selected an item that I really didn't want, added to the selection,
I can unselect it and then move on to the one that I am interested in.
At this point we want to delete both of those items, so we'll go ahead and hit the delete key.
We'll delete the wire frame rectangle and we will delete the other wire frame square that we drew.
One of the things that we do have over here on the paste board is that polygon,
in fact the two polygons that we were working on.
We moved one on top of the other.
If we click on the center one and drag, we're moving only that individual polygon.
If we want to select both polygons, we know that we can hold down the shift key and select both polygons.
And then when we move, they both move.
Now if every time we want to move a polygon, we always have to select both items, that can become tiresome.
To prevent that, what we can do is group them.
We find that option or feature under the element menu and we select group.
Once we do that, the items are considered one.
And now if we deselect and then we click on one of the items and we move, they both move.
If we size the item, they both size.
This is a nice feature if you've created an element and you always want to move all pieces of that element at the same time.
Let's repeat this with these two circles that we have.
We'll take one circle and move it on top of the other circle.
And then we'll select both circles and group them.
Now they're considered one element and we can manipulate both of them at the same time.
If we go back up to the element menu and we choose fill and stroke, we're going to notice that many of the options are blank.
The reason they're blank is because each of these circles has a different stroke and a different line.
They have a different fill and a different stroke.
If we want to make both of them be exactly the same, then we can modify one of these choices.
And once we do that and select OK, both of the items will both be filled with blue.
We can modify the stroke the same way and we can make the shapes have the identical same color.
Now if we did that, we wouldn't see the shapes on top of one another, so probably want to keep the tints a little bit different if you're going to be working on the same color.
The next thing that we want to do is talk about a second way to select more than one item at a time.
To do this, I'm going to re-center our document within our window and then we're going to talk about what's called the selection box technique.
The selection box technique requires no tool other than the arrow tool to be selected.
And all you do is you simply click in a white area outside of whatever it is that you want to have selected and you drag.
You're going to get a dashed or a marqueed or a marching ant line. Many people call it many different things.
Whatever you completely surround is what will become selected.
So when I let go, I had completely surrounded this square and this circle and so consequently both became selected.
At this point with both items selected, I can move and manipulate those two items.
If I want to add yet a third item, I can go back to the technique that we just learned, which is called the click, shift, click technique,
which means that you click on an item, hold down the shift key, and then you click on another item and you repeat that for as many items that you want to select.
In this particular case, we already have two items selected.
So we hold down the shift key, click on the third item, and now all three are selected and we can move or manipulate all three elements.
Now if we adjust the selection handle or manipulate the shape of one item, unless they're grouped, it will only manipulate just that one item.
Unlike the polygon that we had grouped and when we manipulate or change the size, we manipulate both items.
The next thing that we want to talk about is when you're dragging an item, you have two different ways that you can drag it
or two different views that you'll see when you do drag it.
You click on the circle and you immediately begin to move it, you're going to get a box or an outline.
And then when you let go, you'll see the circle.
If you click on an item and hold down and just pause before you begin to move it, you'll actually see the whole shape move.
Let's try that again.
When we click on our line and immediately begin to move it, we're going to get the representation of a box for where the line is eventually going to be.
If we click on the line again and wait just a brief moment before we begin to move it, we'll actually be moving the line.
This will help you get a clearer idea of exactly where you want the line before you let go.
We've talked about selecting items.
Once we have items selected, we have an option called lock.
We can lock an item so that we no longer can move it.
Let's go ahead and talk about that and see how we can use it.
Once you have an item exactly where you want it, you can lock it, which means that you won't be able to move it unless you unlock it,
which is kind of helpful when you're either one, beginning, or two, if you're working on a document with somebody else,
or three, when you simply just accidentally move things over your screen, which I do frequently all the time.
How you do it is you simply select whatever it is that you want to lock.
So let's say we want to keep these three elements in that exact same place.
We have all three items selected, we go up to the element menu, and we choose lock position.
You won't see anything happen necessarily, but what you will notice is that when you go to select the item to move it,
you're going to see a padlock.
And we also cannot manipulate the shape.
So you can try it on all three shapes, and you're going to notice that not any of the three can you move.
Now let's say you do get to the point where you do want to have an item move again.
All you have to do is go back up to the element menu and select unlock.
And then you'll gain access to that shape just as you originally had, and you can modify the shape as well as the location.
Now we've talked about locking and unlocking an item, and down here on the polygons we talked about grouping them.
We didn't actually discuss ungrouping them.
So let's go ahead and click on those two polygons and talk about ungrouping them.
To do so we go up to the element menu and we select ungroup.
It will return these two items back to each individual,
and we can select one polygon and move it independently from the other polygon.
And if we wanted to return it back to a group again, we would simply put the polygon in place.
And when you're moving an item, one trick that we haven't talked about is the arrow keys on your keyboard.
Once you get an item either fairly close to where you want it, or maybe you're just tired of using the mouse,
you can use the arrow keys on your keyboard to manipulate the location of that item or that object.
Once you get it in place, I find that I'll get an item in the general place and then use the arrow keys on my keyboard to fine tune it.
After that, we can use the selection box if that's what we're comfortable with.
Select both items.
We can hold down the control key on our keyboard and hit the G key, which is the shortcut for group.
And then once again, these items are grouped again.
When you're moving an item across the screen, one of the things that we haven't talked about is that, in fact, this also happens with your mouse,
you can actually see a little dotted line up on the rulers letting you know where you're at.
And if you move your mouse slowly, you'll see those show up.
If we click on an unlocked item, we're also going to see the boundaries or the edges of that shape show up on the ruler.
This is going to allow us to accurately position an item on our page.
Next, let's talk about how to select all of the items on our page, and then talk about some specifics of locking a shape and what you can and can't do.
To select all of the items on your page at one time, you can either draw an enormous selection box,
or you can simply go up to the Edit menu and choose Select All.
This will select all of the items on your page.
If for some reason you wanted to select all but one, you could then go to the Edit menu, choose Select All like we've done,
and then hold down your Shift key and deselect the one item that you don't want selected.
You can combine the selection techniques to give you the options to make sure that you have whatever it is that you would like to have selected.
To unselect, remember we just click off in the white area, or the Pasteboard,
and let's talk about some of the locked items that we have on our page.
Remember to check and find out if an item is locked, we simply need to click on it, and if the padlock shows up, it's locked.
We could also check and find out if it's locked by going to the Element menu,
and if Unlock is the only option that shows up, then it's locked.
You might wonder if you can change the fill and stroke of an item that's locked, and the answer is that yes you can.
All you have to do is select the item that's locked, go to the Fill and Stroke dialog box,
change the fill to whatever it is that you'd like, and then change the stroke.
The locking will only lock the position of your item, not the contents.
In this section, we talked about drawing tools and the differences between those and the frame tools.
We also talked about how you can change the fill and stroke of an object on your page.
We also talked about selecting objects and the different ways that you can do those.
In addition to that, we talked about locking objects that are on your screen.
In this section, we're going to talk about the three different ways that you can get text onto your page.
The first way is your text tool, the second way is the story editor, and the third way is importing text.
To start this next section, let's go ahead and start with a blank document.
To do so, we're going to close this particular document that we're working on.
And at this point, I don't think saving changes is something that we need to do, so let's go ahead and select No.
And then to start or open up a new document, all we need to do is go up to the File menu, select New,
and then we'll undo the double-sided option.
We'll leave the orientation as tall, and we'll change the margins back to, on the left side, 0.75.
If you haven't already noticed, the Document Setup dialog box always comes in with the same options.
It doesn't remember the previous settings that we had, so you're always going to get a fresh start.
We'll go ahead and select K at this point, and we're going to have a blank document for us to work on.
The next thing that we should do is maximize this particular window so we can gain the most space that we can.
The next thing that we want to do is talk about the very first way that we get text onto our page.
And to do that, we want to go ahead and access the Text tool that's located on your tool palette.
It's the tool that has the T on it.
Click once on it to select it, and then move on your page.
You're going to notice that we get that I-beam, and there's two different ways that you can use the Text tool.
The first way is simply click within your margins,
and the margins are the blue lines that are running vertically on either side of your page,
as well as the pink lines that are running horizontally.
We've clicked once, and we can type in some text.
But before we do that, what I would like to do is change the view of my screen so you can see the text as we type it.
To do that, we simply go up to the View menu, and we select Actual Size.
And then we're going to begin to type the text that you see on your screen.
And then we'll fix some mistakes after we get done.
For instance, I made some mistakes when I was typing and didn't include spaces.
And actually, I didn't include a period at the end, so we'll add that in first.
And then we'll use the I-beam and position it between the H and the A.
Once you've moved it there, you click, and then the insertion point will move between those two characters.
I then will hit the space bar, and it will allow me to add a space between those.
If you continue on, I can use my arrow keys and move the insertion point over one letter at a time
until I get between the comma and the F, where I have, once again, I'm lacking a space.
We'll go ahead and add that space in now.
I'm going to use the scroll bars located at the bottom of the screen to move this window over
so that I can see the beginning of my text.
Now to see the text block itself, you want to go ahead and click on the arrow tool,
and then click on the text block.
You're going to notice that you get selection handles, and if we were to see the other side,
we'd see selection handles on each corner, as well as we're seeing the window shades
that are above the word they on my screen.
Let's go ahead and go over to the right side of the text,
and we'll see the selection handles on the right side.
These selection handles work much like the shapes that we just got done manipulating.
We can click on them and drag, and we'll modify the shape of the text box.
Now if we want to move the text box to a different location, we simply click on the text and move it.
You can click on the window shade and drag up,
and that will simply move the top of the box up, and the bottom will follow.
The next way to get text onto our page using the text tool is to first select the text tool,
and then to click and drag a box.
Not a rectangle, but a box using the text tool, and then let go.
This will set up the boundaries of the text, and then we'll repeat the text that we had previously typed,
and you'll notice that as you type, the margins are going to be a little bit narrower,
so the text is going to wrap.
You do not need to press the return key at the end of each line.
The computer will automatically wrap the type.
We can go back and get our selection tool, or the arrow tool, and click on the text,
and we're going to notice that the selection handles are in a narrower location,
indicating the box is narrower.
We can also change the dimensions of the box by simply clicking on any of the selection handles and clicking and dragging.
I'm going to move that second box out of the way.
I'm going to modify the top box.
I'm going to reduce the margins.
Now I've reduced it to the point where we're getting only about three or four words per line,
and in doing this, I also caused the remainder of the lines to not show up.
You can see that as indicated by this red upside-down arrow or triangle located in the bottom of the window shade
or in the middle of the window shade at the bottom.
All you have to do to see the remaining part of the text is to click down and hold down,
remember to hold, and drag.
Now let's go ahead and shorten that back up again, which will give us the red mark again.
Now if you accidentally clicked once, you probably got an icon that looked like this.
This particular icon is called the manual flow loaded text icon.
This means that any of the text that we couldn't see in the previous story has gotten loaded up into the cursor,
and we could click and place it again.
If you accidentally get this icon, it's actually very easy to return things back to the way that they were.
All you do is go back over to the tool palette, click on the tool palette, and when you move back onto the screen,
you're going to notice that you now have the pointer tool again.
Any of the text that you had quote-unquote picked up is now returned back into its original location,
and you can see that by simply clicking and dragging down, and you're going to see that all the text shows up.
Now let's say you wanted to do that intentionally.
All you have to do is we're going to shorten that again, and we're going to pick up the remaining lines of text that we can't see,
and then we're going to go over an area to the right, and we have two choices.
We can click and drag a box, and the remaining amount of text will now be in a separate text box.
Let's go ahead and go back to the first text box.
We're going to click on the plus sign that's in the window shade at the bottom,
and expand that all the way open, which will in turn take all the text that was over on the right
and return it back into the text, into the original text box that we had originally split it from.
And to set this example back up again, we're going to take that window shade, move it up,
we're going to pick up the rest of that text, and then we have the second choice of how to place this text,
and that's to simply click. It will create a text box that is the width of the margins.
We can once again click on the original text box, drag it open.
If you don't get it all the way, just continue to drag it again, and all the text will reflow.
And in fact, if we go up to the Edit menu and choose Select All to select all of the elements on our page,
we'll notice that we still have only those two text boxes that we originally started with.
Let's set this up one more time. We're going to click in some white area to deselect the text boxes,
click on the original text box, reduce the size, pick up the remaining text,
and then draw another text box, and we'll see both pieces.
Now what I want you to do is hold down your Shift key on your keyboard and click on the first text box.
This will allow us to view both text boxes at the same time.
What I want to show you is that the plus sign located in the bottom part of the window shade,
there's also a plus sign located in the top part of the window shade on the second text box.
This is indicating that the text is linked or continued to another text box.
The plus sign will go away once all of the text has flowed back into the original box.
Notice now both are empty.
To save ourselves some time, let's go ahead and copy the text that's within our text box
so that we don't have to constantly be retyping it.
To select all the text, all we have to do is click on the Text tool located on your tool palette,
and then click and drag over the text, and you will then highlight it.
To copy it, all you have to do is go to the Edit menu and choose Copy.
And then what we want to do is go back to the Arrow tool, click on it once,
which will unselect everything that we have on our page.
The next place that we would like to go is to the Edit menu and choose Edit Story.
The Edit Story window is like a little mini word processor that's the inside of PageMaker.
Let's go ahead and take a look at that now.
The Edit Story window, which we accessed by going to the Edit menu and choosing Edit Story,
allows us to type in some text and then place it onto our document.
It also allows us to take text that's existing in our document and edit it.
To paste or to use that text that we had copied back in the document,
all we need to do is go to the Edit menu and choose Paste.
And at this point, we could go through and modify this if we would like.
So we can say Amused all the time because we all make mistakes.
What we want to do is close out of the Edit Story window,
and we can do that by either double clicking over here on the icon that's to the left of the File menu
or clicking over here on the X on the right-hand side.
Either way, once we do that, PageMaker is going to give us a message.
It's going to say the story has not been placed,
meaning that the text that we see here wasn't typed in the original document.
So to place it or make it appear in the original document, we're going to go ahead and click on Place.
And then we're going to get that what is called that Manual Flow Text Loaded icon,
and we can click and drag a box,
and the text that we had edited and changed within the Edit Story window
is now going to appear within this box.
Let's go ahead and get rid of the other text that's on our page.
Remember, we just simply click on it and hit Delete.
This is the text that we had created or modified within the Edit Story window.
To return back to the Edit Story window,
we can either one, have the text box selected, go to the Edit menu,
and choose Edit Story, and then Modify at will.
Or we can, with the arrow tool selected, triple-click on this text,
which will automatically take us into the Edit Story window at that time.
Some of the things within the Edit Story window that are very helpful
are some of the utilities that we have available,
like spelling, finding and changing items.
We can display paragraphs if we go to the Story menu,
and that allows us to see spaces.
If you look closely between your words, you're going to see little dots.
Those little dots aren't periods or dashes.
What they are is little indicators indicating that there is a space there.
If we go ahead and add a couple spaces in between a word,
we're going to see that we have three spaces.
This is a good way to check to make sure that you haven't
accidentally added additional spaces without intentionally meaning to do so.
The next thing within the Edit Story window
is we can actually flip-flop between the Edit Story and the Edit Layout.
We do that by going to the Edit menu and choosing Edit Layout,
which will return us back to the document
and allow us to edit the text within the actual framework of the document.
Let's go ahead and enter in a misspelled word and do a spell check.
We can laugh funnily. Funnily is not a word.
Let's go ahead and make sure that we can't spell check from within our document.
You'll notice that spelling is grayed out,
meaning that it's not available to us within this particular view.
However, if we do go into the Edit Story window,
we'll see that it is available to us.
We go back up to the Utilities and check and select Spelling.
From here, we have some choices that we can make.
We can choose to see alternate spellings,
meaning if it finds a word that's misspelled, it will give us some choices.
The next thing that we can choose to see is duplicate words,
if, for instance, you've accidentally typed one word twice.
If we have what's called a book,
we can check all of the publications in that book,
which is many different documents put together,
or we can choose to select or search just the current document that we're in.
We'll discuss this in a later tape.
We can also choose to search the current story,
meaning just this particular text box,
or we can choose to check all of the text boxes that are located in our document.
For this particular time, we only have one story,
so it wouldn't make a difference if we had all stories or current stories selected.
So either one's going to work just fine.
If we then click on the Start button,
we'll then find or PageMaker will go through and check the spelling,
and it's going to find that word fondly, which actually should be fondly,
and then we'll select Replace.
And we'll notice that the word was highlighted that it had found that was misspelled,
and then we also get to see the changes made once we've selected Replace.
We can then close the spelling by simply clicking on the X.
Now, to get out of the Edit Story window,
you can either click on the icon to the left of File, the X on the right-hand side,
or go to the Edit menu and choose Edit Layout.
We've talked about two ways of getting text onto our page.
Using the Text tool and the Story Editor,
the third way we need to talk about is placing text.
Let's take a look at that now.
Before we begin to place text,
we need to take the files that are on the disk that came with the video
and move them inside of the training folder that we created a little while ago.
To do this, we simply want to minimize the PageMaker application,
and we're going to do that by clicking on the Minimize button
located at the top right-hand side of your screen.
Click once, and it will collapse the application.
I've already opened up the floppy information.
You can do this by opening up My Computer and then double-clicking on the floppy drive,
and it should show you the contents of what's located on the floppy.
Let me go ahead and close this other one.
Now the next step is to find the training folder.
To do that, we need to go back to My Computer,
double-click and open that up,
open up the C drive,
and then inside of the C drive is the training folder.
And just for the sake of keeping things neat,
let's go ahead and close the My Computer window,
and we'll move these two folders side-by-side.
The next thing that we're going to do is we're going to select
all four of the items that are on our floppy disk,
and actually the technique that we just got done using
is the same technique that we use in PageMaker for a selection box.
You simply click in some white space and drag,
and it will select the items that you touch,
and in PageMaker you need to completely surround them.
Once you have them selected, you can click on them once
and drag them into the training folder,
and you'll see a copy screen that will show up
as the items are copying from the floppy drive
to your training folder.
And then the copy is complete.
To return back to PageMaker,
we simply go activate the task bar at the bottom of the screen,
and we click on the Adobe PageMaker icon.
This will open PageMaker back up
and return us back to where we were.
Now to place an item, we simply go to the File menu
and select Place.
The next task will be to find the item that we want to place.
It's bringing us into the training folder
that we had originally created,
and it's also where we had saved the invoice
that we had created when we were first learning about templates.
Inside of the beginning folder is some text that we want to place.
Let's go ahead and place the IUA text.
It's going to bring up the text filter.
At this point, there are no changes that need to be made,
and we'll select OK.
Notice the icon that we're getting is similar,
and we've already seen this one before.
Remember, the two ways that we get text onto our page
is by simply clicking and dragging a box,
and if we collapse that, and I pick that text up again,
I can click it once, and it will display a text box.
That's the width of the margins,
and it will also show me all the text
that I had just recently picked up to place.
In this section, we talked about the three different ways
to get text onto our page.
The first way was the Text tool.
The second was the Story Editor,
and the third way was using the Place command.
In this section, we're going to talk about
simple paragraph formatting.
We have two text boxes on our page,
and oftentimes after the text has either been typed or placed,
you have the desire or you would like to change
some of the way the text appears,
something maybe about the font,
or maybe bolding or italicizing something.
So let's go ahead and talk about how you do that.
The first step is to click on the Text tool
on your tool palette.
The second is to be able to select the text
that you want to change or manipulate.
So let's move to the text box
at the top left-hand corner of our screen,
and we'll highlight the word Lesson.
To manipulate or change something about this text,
we'll go to the Type menu,
and we'll see that we have many different choices.
One of those is the font,
and PageMaker 6.5 has set up the font menu
a little bit different than you're probably used to.
They have a more pull-down menu at the top of your font list,
which will allow you to access your list of fonts.
The next thing is to simply choose the one that you want.
Arial Black is a nice, bold font.
It may not be appropriate for what you're looking for.
So if that's the case, you simply need to go back
and continue to make the selections
until you find the one that you'd like.
The next thing that you might want to do
is to change the size of the font.
In this case, let's go ahead and select everything
within our story,
which we did by simply clicking and dragging.
And we'll go to the Type menu, select Size,
and we can see that the size
that it's currently set to is 12.
We might want to change the font size
to 24, which will certainly make it larger.
Now, at this point, our two text boxes are overlapping.
Let's go back and get our arrow tool,
click on the second box, and change the width.
Remember, you do that by simply clicking
on the selection handle and dragging.
Next, we can click back on the original text box
that we were modifying,
go back to our text box,
and at this point, select the word blessed,
and let's see if we can't find a font
that's a little bit more appropriate.
Remember to use that more at the top.
Let's go to the nuptial script.
That's probably going to be
a lot more scripty, more appropriate.
If for some reason we wanted blessed
to be on its very own line,
we can put the insertion point
between the D and the D,
we can put the insertion point between the D,
the space, and the A,
and hit the return key,
which will force the text to move to the next line.
The next option that we want to explore
is let's take a look up at our type menu
and see what other choices we have available.
We have something called letting,
which allows us to manipulate the space
in between the lines of a paragraph.
We have type style, which allows us to modify
the bold, italic, underline, strike through, reverse.
We have tracking,
which is how the characters relate to one another,
in other words, the space in between the characters.
We have horizontal scale,
which allows us to change the physical size
of characters, the width of the characters.
Then we have a lot of these choices
wrapped up into dialogue boxes.
This is what the character allows us to do.
In the character specifications,
we'll be able to change the font, the size,
the letting, horizontal scale,
color of the text, tint of the text,
and a lot of different options all in one spot.
Let's select OK just to simply cancel out of this window.
Let's go ahead and try making a couple of these changes
on some of the text.
Now remember, anything that you want to change
needs to be selected.
So consequently, if we want to change the word laugh,
maybe we want to bold that,
we need to select the word laugh.
Now the way that I just did that
was by clicking and dragging over the word.
The other way that you can do it
is by double clicking on the word.
You then go up to the Type menu,
select Type Style, and choose Bold.
And the text will now be bolded.
If we want to italicize it,
we simply need to go back up to the Type menu
and select Italic.
Now if we wanted to do more than one style change,
we might want to choose the Character dialog box
and make a couple choices down here under Type Style.
We can then select OK,
and those multiple changes will happen at one time,
saving us multiple trips to the Type menu.
Now, another technique for selecting text,
which I want to use over here on the second text box,
is called the click shift click technique.
We learned about this in the objects,
where when you got the arrow tool,
you held down your shift key,
and you clicked on multiple items.
Something kind of similar here on your text.
You click once at the beginning of the text
that you want to select,
you hold down the shift key,
and then you click at the end,
and it will allow you to select a block of text.
This is very effective if you want to select
multiple pages of text within a word processing document.
It's also very effective if you want to select
a couple lines of text,
and you don't want to waste your time
by clicking and dragging.
With Investments Unlimited of America selected,
we can make that italic
by simply going up to the Type menu,
choosing Type Style,
and choosing Italic.
While we're in this paragraph,
we can also adjust the space in between the lines
by manipulating the letting.
We do that by going up to the Type menu,
and selecting Letting.
And Auto is defined as 120% of your font size.
So if your font is 12,
your letting automatically would be 14.
So what we would want to do is,
if we know that our font is 12,
then our letting, if we want to increase the space,
should be higher.
So let's choose 18.
You'll notice that there was only a slight shift
in the amount of space in between the lines
of this paragraph.
Let's go ahead and do that again,
this time choosing a value larger than 18, 24.
You'll want to notice that the text is now increasing,
or the width between the texts is increasing.
Now some of the text is not visible anymore,
and that's because we've changed the amount of space
that the text takes up within the box,
but the box itself hasn't increased.
So to work with that, we simply need to click on the arrow tool,
click on the text, and drag down.
Now what has actually happened is the space
in between the first line and the second line
is all that was impacted by our letting change.
To impact everything within the store,
we need to select all of it.
So let's go ahead and do that.
Remember, we can either click and drag, or select all.
And select all is going to be found up under the edit menu,
and then choose select all.
Now if we go back to the type menu and choose letting,
we're not going to see a check mark next to any of the options,
and that's because we have mixed letting within our paragraph.
So let's go ahead and choose 14.
We're not going to see a big difference.
Let's go back up here and choose 24.
And you're going to see a much more significant change
to the amount of space in between the lines of the paragraph.
So if you want to change just one line,
or the space between one line and another line,
you simply select any part of that one line
and change to letting.
And it will impact the space between that line and the next.
If you want to impact everything within a store,
you select all, you go back up to the type menu,
choose letting, and then choose a value,
and it will affect all lines within your paragraphs.
The next thing that we want to take a look at
for the simple formatting of our paragraph
is let's return back to the type menu
and take a look at the paragraph dialog box.
Here we can choose to indent the text on its left edge,
the first line of a paragraph, or the right edge.
For simple editing, we might want to just indent
the whole left side by a quarter of an inch,
and then select OK.
What we're going to notice is that this particular paragraph
got moved over by a quarter of an inch, but blessed didn't.
I don't know if you remember,
but blessed actually has a return after it,
which makes it a separate paragraph from the text down here.
We can actually see this in the edit story window,
so let's go ahead and click on our arrow tool,
and we'll click on our story,
which allows us to go into the edit story window,
display our paragraphs,
and you're going to see that there is a paragraph
or a return mark after blessed,
and that's what's allowing this paragraph
to be differently formatted from the blessed paragraph.
We can close the edit story,
and we can see how that got changed.
Now over here on our paragraph to the right,
a lot of times when you're using a typewriter,
you'll hit the tab key when you begin to type a paragraph.
You don't necessarily have to do that anymore.
What we want to do now is actually go to the edit menu
and select all of our text,
and go back to the type menu,
and this time go to paragraph, just like we were,
but within the paragraph, instead of changing the left indent,
what we're going to do is we're going to enter in a value
for the first indent,
which is actually only going to indent the first line
within a paragraph.
Let's select OK and see what that looks like.
So instead of having to hit your tab key
at the beginning of typing the paragraph,
you can go into the paragraph format,
enter in a value for the first line,
and that's going to allow you to indent the first line
of each paragraph that you have selected.
Remember that anything that you get selected gets changed,
but if you don't have it selected, it won't get changed.
Let me show you an example of this.
Because paragraph formatting affects the whole paragraph,
it doesn't make a difference where you are within the paragraph.
As long as you're within a paragraph, it will get changed.
If we go to the type menu and we choose paragraph,
and then we modify the first line value
to maybe a half an inch and select OK,
we're going to notice that this paragraph
is now different from the bottom paragraph,
and that's because this paragraph was selected
and it was selected by default because we were in the paragraph,
but the second paragraph we weren't in,
we didn't have selected, so it consequently did not get changed.
If we want to change everything back to the way that it was,
we can select all, go back to the type menu, choose paragraph,
and this time the first line value for the indent
is going to be blank.
The reason is because one paragraph is different than the other.
If we enter in a value of.25, we'll override the choices for both
and return both of them to a quarter of an inch.
In this section, we talked about how to format a paragraph.
We talked about how you italicize and how you bold things,
as well as how you manipulate the indents of a paragraph.
In this last section, we're going to go ahead and combine
the elements that we've learned throughout the video.
We're going to take an object and put it with some text.
As we discussed, in this section we're going to take an object
and combine it with some text.
To do this, let's go ahead and start with a clean slate.
To do so, let's go ahead and close the document that we're working on,
and actually before we close it, let's go ahead and do a save or a save as.
If a document doesn't have a title already,
you can use save or save as interchangeably.
Once you've given the document a name though,
you'll want to continue to do a save to simply update the document.
We'll call the document TextSamples or TextSample.
We'll make sure that we're in the training folder,
and we'll select Save.
Then we'll go to the File menu and select Close.
The next step is to simply open up a blank document.
We can do that by going to the File menu and selecting New,
turning off double-sided,
and let's adjust the margins back to.75 and select OK.
And now we have an overview of the document.
The first thing that we're going to do is we're going to go ahead
and combine a graphic with some text.
First step is to draw the graphic.
Go ahead and draw a box that takes up about the top half of your page,
and let's go ahead and take the box and fill it with a solid black.
The next step is to take some text and put it over the box.
Now we're going to draw a text box over the black box.
This will ultimately be called a reversed box.
The next step is to type the text, but if I hit Character on my keyboard,
we're going to notice that we can't see the text on our page.
So what we need to do is go to the View menu and try maybe Actual Size.
We're still not going to be able to see the character that we just typed.
So what we need to do is we need to go to the Type menu, choose Character,
and in the Character we have the choice of changing the color of the font.
Let's change it to white, which is going to be the equivalent of paper, and select OK.
Now we should be able to see the T.
OK, so we have the T, and when you make something or change the color of the text to white,
basically what you're doing is reversing it.
So if we select Reverse from the Type Style, it's in essence doing the same thing.
So we can type in some text and say this is a reversed text box, put an exclamation mark.
And if we zoom out by going to our View menu and select Zoom Out,
that may not zoom us out enough, so we may want to go back to the View menu and select Fit in Window.
We'll highlight the text, and right now the text is a gray bar, which is the equivalent of greaking.
The computer does that because it can't display the text at the size that our window is,
as well as the size of what the text is.
So it just converts it to a gray bar.
The text is still there.
If we go to the Type menu and choose Size, we can then make the text larger,
and 48 points probably wouldn't be bad, and we can see this is a reversed text box.
One more additional thing that we can do with respect to paragraph formatting is to align the text.
So we can center it by going to Alignment and choosing Align Center.
We can then actually click on the physical text box and move it down.
That is a combination of an object with some text.
In this section, we talked about combining objects and text.
In this tape, we talked about how you get started with page mapping,
the elements that are on your screen,
how you use Help,
the tools on the tool palette,
how you work with shapes,
how you modify your views,
how you enter and manipulate text,
how you work with the story editor,
how you do simple paragraph formatting,
and how you combine text and graphics.
In the next section, we're going to talk about importing graphics,
advanced paragraph formatting,
styles,
and much more.
I really appreciate you joining us for this video.
I'm Carrie Lynn, and I look forward to seeing you on the next one.
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