Magazine Magic!!! Bret Madsen

Today’s Top Headlines Elements of a magazine Formatting pages Adding pictures Tying it all together

Top Newsletter Tips 1. Make your newsletter's name an attention grabber 2. Write your newsletter's articles objectively 3. Write to express, not to impress 4. Proofread, proofread, proofread 5. Use front-page articles to draw in readers From:

Top Newsletter Tips 6. Use at least one graphic per page 7. Use image-editing software to sharpen your photos 8. Use accent colors and tints to make your newsletter more eye- catching From:

Beginning Your Magazine Choose your Software Program Microsoft Word is a good program for basic editing and simple layouts Microsoft Publisher, PageMaker, and Broderbund Print Shop are good programs for creating different layouts and viewing magazine type layouts Today we will be using Microsoft Publisher

Open Publisher Select Publisher from the Start menu. We will be creating the following elements in our magazine: Title Page Inserting Stories Inserting Pictures Creating a Table of Contents

Choosing a Style Enter a Title for your Magazine. Select a new publication and choose the Newsletter design. There are several styles in each design type. Choose the one you like the best. The program will automatically create 4 pages for your newsletter. A front cover, two inside pages, and a back cover.

Modifying the Print Style You can customize the Newsletter design by choosing different color schemes and font schemes. Remember to use colors and fonts that will be eye catching, but don’t forget to make it easy to read.

The Title Page Select the Newsletter Title and change it to the title of your magazine. Change the Newsletter Date. The left side of the page contains the titles of each story and the page it is on. Normally you will fill this in after you have finished your stories.

Editing the Document Now it is time to begin filling in the stories. Edit the second story title and begin writing about it. For today make the title, “My Favorite 4-H project is _______” and type in whatever your favorite is. For today just type a couple of sentences in the story.

Editing and Adding New Pictures The Newsletter design places pictures in some of the stories. We will first change the picture that is already there and then add a new picture. Right click on the picture in the First Story Headline and choose Change Picture. If you had your own pictures you could choose From file or Scanner. Today we will choose from Clip Art and pick another picture.

Editing and Adding New Pictures Notice if the size of the picture changed then the text moved as well. Now we will add a second picture. Click on the text of the first story. Select Insert from the top menu then Picture and Clip Art. Chose a picture.

Editing and Adding New Pictures Try moving the picture around the story. Notice that the text adjusts automatically so you don’t have to worry about that.

Adding Additional Pages The Newsletter design creates 4 pages to start with and we need at least 8. To add the other 4 pages, select Insert and Page. Publisher wants to add 2 pages at time for the left and right sides of the page. Publisher will create the new pages before the last page of the newsletter. You can choose the type of page you want. Create the left side as stories and the right as a calendar.

The Back Page The back page of a magazine or newsletter usually contains information about the organization, or in this case, the person writing the article. Add your name and address to the first section on this page. The second area can be filled in with information about yourself, like why you joined this project.

Finishing Up Once all of the stories have been written, add the titles to the left hand side of the front page. You don’t have to add all of the story titles to the front page. A lot of magazines add only their top 5 stories to the front page to grab people’s attention.