Microsoft Publisher

In Instructional Media today we learned how to use Microsoft Publisher and all of the awesome things it has to offer.  MS Publisher has templates for all different types of documents.  Today we worked on business cards, brochures, fliers, resumes and award certificates.  MS Publisher is so easy to use.  It already has everything set up for you; all you have to do is fill in the different boxes for information and it automatically inserts it into the template you are using.  You can then go in and customize everything to the way you like it; changing fonts, font sizes and colors, logos and color schemes.  I really enjoyed getting to make my business card. It turned out so pretty! We also learned how to use the mail merge function when we were working on our award certificates.  All you have to do is format the award once, use the mail merge function to add a list of people, and then MS Publisher automatically inserts the name and all the information with one click of a button; it really reduces the time it would take to have to go back and type in each person's name on each individual certificate.  I'm really glad that I got to learn how to use MS Publisher.  It is turning out to be one of my favorite programs so far!