DTP MIND MAP

DTP MIND MAP

1. Other

   • Font - You can change the font type, style or size
   • Justification - Text can be aligned left, centre, right or fully justified (against both left and right margins)
   • 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.
   • Tabulation - you can set tabs on a page to create bullet point lists with a consistent indent (distance from left margin)
   • Tables - are useful for summarising the key facts and can be customized.
   • Borders - coloured borders can add emphasis 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, rotated or mirrored.
   • Auto shapes - 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 a company.

2. Mail merge

   • 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 addresses on each

3. Spellcheck

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

4. Autimatic routines

   • Style sheets- allows the user to define different styles for such things as text and headings in order to make for matting consistent
   • Headings and footers - text or images that automatically appear at the top and bottom of each page
   • Pagination - you can add automatic page numbering. You must also avoid widows and orphans (this just means keeping paragraphs together and looking professional, rather than having the last few words of a paragraph dangling off onto a new page.
   • Automatic contents production - text of a certain style can be identified as headings and form automatic table of contents.

Images and files in the map