Welcome

- [Voiceover] Hi and welcome to Office 365: Publisher Essential Training. I'm David Rivers. Publisher has evolved over the years and this latest version continues to be powerfully robust, yet easy to use. Now, if you've already taken our Publisher 2016 Essential Training course here at lynda.com, you should know this course covers the exact same thing. After all, the Publisher you get with Office 365 is the exact same thing as Publisher 2016. So, if you need to lay out graphics-intensive documents that are specifically designed for publication, Office 365 Publisher might be the right program for you.

We'll begin with a tour of the new and improved user interface to get you comfortable in your environment. Then it's onto the basics of creating publications from scratch, whether they be blank or pre-formatted publications using one of the many templates available to you here in Publisher. You can create your own graphical objects or insert existing objects like shapes, pictures, text boxes, and word art. So, we'll spend a great deal of time working will all types of objects, from how to insert them properly to manipulating and formatting them to make them look their best.

We'll also get into more complex functionality when we start customizing the layout and design of our publication. This will involve the use of master pages, backgrounds, templates, and building blocks. Of course, Publisher publications are usually made to be shared, so we'll discuss ways to send out publications using Mail Merge functionality for mass mailings, using traditional mail, and even email, as well as printing options like prepping your publication for commercial printing and printing on your own.

So, with so much to cover, let's get started with Office 365: Publisher Essential Training.