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How to Use This Template

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This newsletter is created primarily by using The reason these placeholders remain is that
text columns, so that text automatically they are linked to other placeholders that use
wraps from one column to the next. Find the the same text. So, when you replace the title
Columns feature on the Page Layout tab, in or subtitle placeholder text with your own, it Article Title
the Page Setup group. Get tips for setting up automatically populates the corresponding A column break is inserted before and after each column
and using text columns later in this template placeholders in the headers and on the back that acts as a sidebar. To insert a column break, press
page mailer. Ctrl+Shift+Enter. Or, on the Page Layout tab, in the
Adding your own content Page Setup group, click Breaks, and then click Column.
The placeholder text for several articles in Replacing pictures
this template provides tips on how to To replace a picture in this template with Page #
customize this newsletter for your needs. your own, select it and then, on the Picture
Tools Format tab, in the Adjust group, click
To replace any placeholder text with your Change Picture. (Or right-click a photo to
own, just select it and start typing. Note that access the Change Picture command.)
if the placeholder text you replace is long,
such as for this article, it might look like the The pictures that you see in sidebars, such as
page layout is skewed when you do this but it In This Issue at right, are formatted as In Line
is not. The content that sits lower on the With Text so that they sit right in a paragraph
page only moves up because less content is mark and can be formatted as easily as text.
present when you begin to replace your own The custom paragraph style named Sidebar
text. As you type to add your text, content photo applies indent formatting that helps
will move back into position automatically. align the photos perfectly with the other Article Title
sidebar content. To view column breaks, section breaks, and other
Placeholders that remain when formatting marks, on the Home tab, in the Paragraph
Pictures that wrap around some text in group, click the pargraph mark icon.
you add text articles throughout the newsletter use text
The title and subtitle placeholders don’t Page #
settings and positioning. Get help for
disappear when you add your own text. They
working with text wrap around pictures later
will look like regular text when printed but
in this template.
you can see the blue outline and title of the
placeholder when you click in it.
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Ü Larg Ü White headings on orange text in tables

e uses the Heading 4 style.
Ü The heading inside contact information
tables uses Heading 5 style.
Ü Contact Info is the name of the gray
text style inside the small contact
tables.
Access all styles used in this template on the
Home tab, in the Styles group.

Using styles helps save you time and keep

your document consistent. To modify a style,
on the Home tab, in the Styles group, right-
click the name of the style you want to edit
and then click Modify. All content where the
style is applied will update automatically.

Another way to modify a style is to simply

customize an instance of the style where it’s
applied in the document. Then, on the Home
tab, in the Styles group, right-click the style
name and then click Update [style] to Match
article titles, such as on the first page,
Selection.

Using Styles
use Heading 1 style.
Ü Orange headings in the sidebars and HEADING 4 STYLE
by Name Style
within articles use Sidebar Heading
style. Use the small tables provided in some of the
Ü Orange section titles in articles use the articles to call out quick reference information
Heading 2 style. related to the article, such as contact
information or event dates.
Ü Small article titles use Heading 3 style.
The body text throughout the articles in this Ü This style is List Bullet 2. HEADING 5
Contact Info
template uses the Normal paragraph style. This style is List Continue.
Following are some other styles applied
throughout the template: Ü Text in sidebars uses the Sidebar Text
This picture caption uses the Caption 2
style.
paragraph style and is inside a text box so
that you can move it easily as needed to
accompany a photo.

Working with Columns

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To setup a document for multiple column Select a section break

text, on the Page Layout tab, in the Page When changing many types of page layout
Setup group, click Columns and then click formatting for just part of the document—
the number of columns you need. You can such as paper size, margins, or orientation,
also click More Columns to specify column the best section break type to use is a Next
widths, the space between columns, or to Page section break because it automatically
automatically add a vertical line between starts the new section on a new page.
columns. However, when changing the number of
columns as you might in this newsletter, you
To change the number of columns for just may prefer to select a Continuous break. The
part of the document (or if you want text to continuous section break (used a few times
wrap to just the top part of the page and a throughout this template) starts a new
new article to start below – as shown on this section immediately after the preceding one.
page), insert a section break before the So, for example, you can have a three-
position where you want to start the new column article followed by a four-column
column layout. To do this, on the Page article, on the same page.
Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, click
Breaks and then click the type of section
break you need.
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Formatting Tips
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Sidebar Setup
The sidebars in this template use simple, single-row
tables for the gray-shaded headings and thermometer
charts shown below for easy alignment.

Add Sidebar Content

Adding content into a column to create a sidebar is no
different from adding text. As noted earlier in this
template, apply the styles provided for headings,
sidebar text, and even pictures to align them quickly and
easily.

FAST FACTS

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Learn about these “thermometer charts” in the article at
right.
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This placeholder article provides the will move down automatically and back into
position.

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following tips: Caption 2 style is used to add picture
captions. Captions are in text boxes for
Ü Creating “thermometer charts” using To remove theeasysecond placeholder
placement relative control
to images.
tables, as shown at left. that starts immediately following this one,
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Ü Setting up multipage articles. then continue typing from this page and your
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Ü Wrapping text around images text will automatically flow onto the next.
FOR MORE INFORMATION Ü Adding article titles and bylines
Wrap text around images
Abico eum, ille et, conventio obruo duis Creating the sidebar The photos in this article that are angled with
ullamcorper ut, neo demoveo. Vel reprobo: thermometer charts white borders are “floating” images. That is,
When you work in Word 2010 (or PowerPoint they are setup for text to wrap around them
HEADING 5
2010), you have the full power of Excel 2010 —which is why they can span multiple
Contact Info
charts (provided that Excel is installed on columns in a three-column section.
your computer). Insert a chart in Word from Additionally, as mentioned earlier, the photo
the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group. of the young woman in the body of this
Charts are easy to create and use and article is set to wrap text so that text will flow
automatically coordinate with your active around the image as you add your own text.
document theme.
To select text wrap settings, start by
However, notice in the sidebar at left that the selecting the image and then do the
“thermometer charts” were created using following:
single-row Word tables. This is because they
automatically fit the tight space without 1. On the Picture Tools Format tab, in the
having to remove any chart elements. And Arrange group, click Wrap Text and then
you might be surprised to learn that it’s easy select either Square, Tight, or Top and
to make them essentially mathematically Bottom—depending on how you want
accurate. the text to wrap.

To use a table as a thermometer chart, do the You might be happy with the default
following: behavior as soon as you do this.
Otherwise, continue to step two for
1. On the Insert tab, in the Tables group, customization options.
click Table and then drag across the grid 2. To set a specific position or control
to select the first two cells in the first behavior (such as whether or not the
row. Click to insert a two-cell, one-row image moves with text), on the Picture
table. Tools Format tab, in the Arrange group,
2. Click in the table and then, on the Table click Position and then click More
Tools Layout tab, in the Table group, Layout Options.
click Properties.
3. On the Columns tab of the Table Ü On the Text Wrapping tab
Properties dialog box, change the of the Layout dialog box,
Measure In setting to Percentage. You you can set a specific
can then set the percentage to up to one distance from the
decimal point in accuracy. image for text to
wrap and
Setting up multipage articles control whether
Word is designed to allow text to text can wrap on
automatically flow from one page to the both sides, one side
next. So, when you want an article to only, or just above
continue on the next page, just keep typing. and below the
image.
In the case of this placeholder article, it is
Ü On the
separated into two placeholder content
Position tab of that
controls (one on this page and another that
dialog box, you can set a
starts at the top of the following page) just so
specific position for the image on the
that you can still see the layout of the
page and select or clear the option to
following page while you begin adding your
allow the picture to move with text.
own text on this page. As mentioned on the
first page of this template, remember that it Adding article titles, bylines,
might look like the layout is skewed when
you replace a long piece of placeholder text
and dividers
by starting to type your own, but it is not. As The article titles and bylines for this
you add your content, the layout that follows newsletter are created in text boxes. This is
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because text can wrap around a text box just When you select a text box or a shape, on the depending upon length. To adjust the
like it can around a picture. Similarly, the Drawing Tools Format tab, in the Arrange position of a divider bar shape to
orange divider bars that you see on pages group, you have the same settings for text accommodate the length of your articles, just
containing more than one article are shapes wrapping and positioning that are described select the shape and then use the up and
set to wrap text. So, these text boxes and above for wrapping text around pictures. down arrow keys on your keyboard to nudge
shapes can easily span multiple columns it to the proper position.
without having to insert a section break or Note that, because text is set to wrap around
change the number of columns for just that the orange divider bars, your article might
portion of the page. appear to slip below or above a bar,

Notice the image of the young woman that’s The Remove Background feature
within a text column on the preceding page. automatically displays what it believes to be
The background has been removed from that the central subject of the image. However,
image to allow text to wrap directly around it’s easy to adjust this if the immediate result
the subject. is not what you need.

Office 2010 introduced several new and On the Background Removal tab, click Mark
improved picture formatting tools in Word, Areas to Keep or Mark Areas to Remove
PowerPoint, and Excel. Among those is the and then drag your mouse pointer in a line
Remove Background tool that you can use to across the portion of the image you want to
remove backgrounds from your own images, add or remove. When you are finished
similar to the sample image on the preceding making adjustments, click Keep Changes.
page.

To do this in Word, first insert your image

Remove Image
Backgrounds
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FOR MORE INFORMATION

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into the document (on the Insert tab, click

Picture), and then select it. Then, on the
Picture Tools Format tab, in the Adjust
group, click Remove Background.
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