Microsoft Publisher Advanced

Our Microsoft Publisher Advanced Training Courses introduce you to its advanced tools and features and is available both as an online Publisher Training session with a live instructor or hosted onsite at your premises.
The advanced course builds on existing skills learnt either at work or on another course.
During your time with us you will learn how to work with long documents effectively and quickly by making use of Publishers tools by designing brochures, magazines, newsletters, company tenders and books.
Ideal for both 121 training sessions or closed company courses this Publisher training can be run at times and dates to suit you.
Online Microsoft Publisher Training
This is also available as an Online MS Publisher Beginners Course session with a virtual live instructor.
You will have continuous live contact with your instructor throughout the whole of your course both via video, chat and sharing screens in real time.
All our digital design courses are available online and run in popular video conferencing software including Zoom, Teams and Google. All the courses features on the website are available as online training.
If you have any questions about any of our Online Microsoft Publisher Training Courses please don’t hesitate to get in touch to find out more.
Onsite Publisher Training
This Microsoft training is also hosted on your premises for either individuals or small company groups.
It is a private course designed totally around you and your company and can be run at times and dates to suit you.
We travel around most of the UK to deliver this including the Midlands, Wales, North East /West and the South.
- The training is focused entirely on your and your company requirements
- No traveling involved for you or your team
- The approach is focused specifically on you and your specific needs this is not a generic one size fits all course.
- Prior to the training we discuss the course and then tailor it to suit you /your team.
- Flexible dates and times to suit you
Get in touch to find out more about both Online & Onsite Pubisher Training Courses
Publisher Advanced Training who is this for?
The advanced training is ideal for anyone looking to take their DTP skills a step further. Over the years Greta Powell Training has delivered courses to office administrators, personal assistants, HR & Development professionals, designers and content creators among others.
what will I learn?
This Microsoft Publisher Course content takes between one and two days depending on the amount of people sitting on the training . For one person a day usually suffices but for small groups of between 4 and 6 people two days is more realistic. We also offer Publisher training as a workshop, consultancy or at your desk side and provide perfectly tailored MS Publisher training so elements from the Introduction course can be included in the advanced (and vice versa of course).
In brief on this Microsoft Publisher course you will learn: (full course overview further down)
- Create & Edit Master Pages
- Work with Advanced Styles
- Use & Adapt Content Blocks
- Create & Edit TOC’s (Table of Contents)
- Work with Data Merge
- Understand Accurate Print & PDF
Microsoft Publisher Advanced - Overviews
Microsoft Publisher Advanced Layout
Master Page setup
Creating & Editing Master Pages
Master Page Toolbar
Master Page Layout Tools
Boundaries
Guides /Grids
Professional /Accurate Layouts
Use Content Blocks to add side bars, stories, borders, effects etc
Microsoft Publisher Mail Merge
Create a data source for Mail Merge
Mail Merge Wizard
Tracking
Creating Address Lists for Merge
Postal Bar Codes
Exporting via Post/ Email
Microsoft Publisher Handling Type
Placing text
Character styles/ Paragraph styles
Typography and layouts
OpenType fonts
(ligatures, style sets etc)
Microsoft Publisher TOC’s *
Creating TOC’s using tables*
Creating a manual TOC
Table design
Table anatomy
Leaders
Microsoft Publisher Print
Preparation for print
Export to .PDF
Other formats
Commercial print
Microsoft Publisher Media Files
Using Media files
Adding Media files to Organiser
Add/ edit/delete Keywords
Using Sound & Motion
Animated GIF’s
Embed video into Publisher
Microsoft Publisher Tabs
Tab box
Tab characters
Editing Tabs
Adding Leaders
Microsoft Publisher Styles & Formatting
Font schemes
Creating styles
Editing /Updating styles
Importing styles
Professional typography hits & tips
Baseline Grid
Align to Baseline Grid options
Microsoft Publisher Image Design
Graphics
Graphics and transparency best practice
Design Gallery
Graphics Manager Task Pane
Image Editing Tools including pan, zoom, crop
Fine tune images