Microsoft Publisher

1. Creating a web page

2. Introduction
• Publisher gives you a variety of web site
design templates to choose from. A template
contains color elements, graphics, and text
formatting and placeholders for the pages that
will make up the website. You can then modify
the pages as you like.

3. Creating web page using template
1. To get started, Select New in the File tab and
type “Web Site” in the Search for templates box.

4. Creating web page using template
2. Select one of the Office.com Templates. For
this training exercise, we have selected the
“Web site (Tabs design)”
template.

5. Editing the Home Page
• With Clip Art
• 1. Double-click on the image that you want to replace. Note the
Picture Tools Contextual Tab
• opens above the Format Tab.
• 2. Select the Insert Tab on the menu bar and select Clip Art from
the Illustrations Group.
• 3. The Clip Art Image Pane opens beside the right scroll box.
• 4. Type in a keyword for the Clip Art image you want to find in the
Search for box.
• 5. Click the Go button.
• 6. From the resulting choices, click on the image that you want. The
new image now replaces
• the previous image.

6. Editing the Home Page
• With an Image File
1. Click the image that you want to replace.
2. On the Menu Bar, click Insert → Picture →
From File.
3. Select the file.
4. Click the Insert button.
5. To resize the picture, drag one of the corners
toward or away from the center.

7. Inserting a Table
• Tables are frequently used in web pages for
the purpose of layout and alignment. A table
gives you a group of cells into which you can
type text and insert images. You can make the
borders of the table invisible, if you choose.

8. Inserting a Table
1. On the Menu Bar, click Table → Insert →
Table.
2. In the Table dialogue box, select the number
of rows and columns that you would like in
your table. You can do this by dragging your
mouse vertically and horizontally down the
boxes, or you may do this from the Insert
Table box.

9. Inserting a Table
3. The table will then appear in your workspace
page.
Note: The Table Tools Contextual Tab now appears
on the menu bar and allows more formatting
options for your table.
4. Move and adjust your table by using the four
point arrow which is visible when you mouse over
the border of your table. You can now click in the
cells of the table and either type text or insert
pictures.

10. Inserting a Hyperlink
• You can create a hyperlink from either text or
an image on the page.
1. Select the text or image that you want
to use for the link.
2. Click Insert -> Hyperlink.

11. Inserting a Hyperlink
3. In the Insert Hyperlink dialogue box, type the
address of the web site that you want to link to in the
Address box (e.g.http://www.google.com).
4. Click OK.
The procedure above creates an “external” hyperlink--a link to another website. Publisher creates “internal”
links (links to other pages on your website)
automatically as you add new pages to your site.

12. Inserting Links within Your Site
1. With your mouse select the text that you want to
initiate the navigation. The text “Create a Link to the
Project List Page” has been selected as an example
below.

13. Inserting Links within Your Site
2. Click Insert -> Hyperlink. The Insert Hyperlink
dialogue box will appear.

14. Inserting Links within Your Site
3. Select the page destination you would like to link to
from the available options in the list. Click OK. “Page 13
Project List” has been selected as an example below.

15. Inserting Links within Your Site
4. The text will now appear underlined as an
active link. Simply select the text and you will be
directed to the destination page.

16. Inserting Additional Pages
1. Click Insert -> Click the drop down arrow under Page.
2. Click Insert Page.
3. In the Insert Web Page dialogue box select an appropriate
page layout for the type of content that you want on the
page.
4. Click OK.

17. Deleting Entire Pages
1. Select the page you would like to delete in the Page
Navigation window.
2. Click Page Design and select Delete in the Pages
group.
Note: You can also right-click the page you would like to
delete inside the Page Navigation window and select
Delete from the available options.

18. Inserting Navigation Links
1. Click Web -> Click Navigation Bar in the Web
Page Navigation group.

19. Inserting Navigation Links
2. Select the design you would like to add from
the available options and click Insert.

20. Inserting Navigation Links
3. The selected navigation bar design will is now
added to your site. You can now move the
navigation bar as you would move a table, by
clicking on it and dragging it to the desired
location.

21. Saving the Web Site
1. Click File -> Save.

22. Saving the Web Site
2. In the Save As dialogue box, select the drive and folder
where you want to save your web site files.
3. Name the file “index”. (The home page of a website is
always named “index”.)
4. Click the arrow in the Save as type field and select
“Web Page”.
5. Click Save.
Publisher will save the “index” file, and will also create a
folder called “index files” which contains all the images
and other pages on the website.