Desktop Publishing

Desktop Publishing

1. Spellchecker

   • Spellchecker - Checks your spelling (not grammar) as you type.
   • Thesaurus - Looks for synonyms, or words with the same meaning, as you type.

2. Automatic Routines

   • Style Sheets - Allows the user to define different styles for things such as text and headings, in order to make formatting consistent.
   • Headers and Footers - Text or images that automatically appear at the top and bottom of each page.
   • Automatic Contents Production - Text of a certain style can be identified as headings and form an automatic table of contents.
   • Pagination - Information on a page i separated onto multiple other pages so that it doesn't get to cramped and unreadable.

3. Mail Merger

   • Lets you send out personalised documents by connecting to a database. All customers in the database can have their own personalised letter with different names and adresses on each.

4. Other

   • Font - You can change the font type, style and/or size.
   • Importing - Different file formats can be imported. Images can be imported from clip art and text can be imported from other file formats such as CSV, TXT or RTF.
   • Justification - Text can be aligned left, right, centre or fully justified.
   • Tabulation - You can set tabs on a page to create bullet point list with a consistent indent.
   • Tables - Tables like this one are are useful for summarising the key facts and can be customized.
   • Borders - Coloured borders can add enphisis to a section.
   • Line Spacing - Lines can have single line spacing or can have an empty line placed in between each line of text, this is called double line spacing.
   • Graphics - Graphics can be manipulated: they can be resized, cropped, rottated or mirrored .
   • AutoShapes - you can draw lines or shapes and change the colour or thickness of your drawings.
   • Watermarks - An image of light contrast can be added to the background of the page and can feature the insignia or logo of the company.

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