Newsletter

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Create a Newsletter
How do you let others know about events and activities taking place in your
community? Do you want to create a newsletter to share the information? A
newsletter is a publication that is distributed frequently. It contains information
about topics that are of interest to its readers. In a community, newsletters can act
as the medium among those who live in your neighborhood, nearby schools and
community organizations, or local elected officials to give an update about events
and activities taking place in your community.
Look at the following example:

Community Newsletter Example

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As in the example given, a Newsletter created on the computer typically has:

A title that explains what sort of information is in the newsletter

The newsletter edition and the date in a text box with a fill and a border

Information and a picture about recent and upcoming events

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Before you begin using the computer to create your newsletter, take a moment to get familiar with
the Intel Education Help Guide. The Help Guide provides handy step-by-step instructions for
common applications right as you work.
Please refer the activity card - How to Use the Help Guide.

Steps on How to Create a Newsletter

A. Set Page Margins For Your Newsletter
1. Start the word processing software, and open a new, blank document.
For help, see Word Processing Skill 1.1: To start word processing software

2. Make the page margins or the empty spaces along the edges of the page smaller so you
have more room for your information.
For help, see Word Processing Skill 6.5: To set the empty spaces, or margins, around the edges of a page

3. Save your work. Make sure you save your work after every couple of steps you complete.
For help, see Word Processing Skill 1.7: To save a word processing document for different uses

B. Design a Title For Your Newsletter

1. Type a title for your newsletter at the top of the page. Change the look of the text so it
looks like a title.
For help, see:
Word Processing Skill 1.5: To use the Drawing (Shapes) tool
Graphics Skill 9.1: To make art out of words, or WordArt

2. Change the look of the title as you wish.

For help, see:
Graphics Skill 9.2: To change the words in your WordArt
Graphics Skill 9.3: To pick a different WordArt look or style
Graphics Skill 9.5: To change the WordArt shape

3. Save your work.

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C. Add Text Box to Your Newsletter

1. Below the title, make a text box that runs the width of the page.
For help, see Graphics Skill 7.1: To make a box so you can add words to a drawing

2. Save your work.

D. Add Text to the Text Box

1. Type 9ROXPH 1, Issue 1.
For help, see Graphics Skill 7.2: To type words into a text box

Note: The Volume number and Issue number will change as you publish more newsletters in future.

2. Then, set and use a right-aligned tab to move the cursor to the right side of the text
box. ,QVHUWWRGD\VGDWH, and pick whichever date format you like.
For help, see:
Word Processing Skill 4.4: To set and use a tab to space your words from left to right
Word Processing SkiOO7RSXWWRGD\VGDWHLQWRDGRFXPHQW

3. Change the look of the words as you wish.

For help, see:
Word Processing Skill 3.1: To pick the letter design or font for your words
Word Processing Skill 3.3: To change the style of words
Word Processing Skill 3.4: To change the color of words

E. Design Text Box

1. Change the line style, color, and width of the text box border. You can also fill the text
box with color.
For help, see:
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Graphics Skill 6.7: To change the color RIDOLQHRUVKDSHVERUGHU
Graphics Skill 6.8: To change the fill color inside a shape

2. Save your work.

F. Add Another Text Box and Text to Your Newsletter

1. Move the cursor below the text box. Make another text box that runs the width of the
page.
For help, see Graphics Skill 7.1: To make a box so you can add words to a drawing

2. Type a welcome note and a summary about what your newsletter contains. Change the
look of the words as you wish. Then, change the line style, color, and width of the text
box border. You can also fill the text box with color.
For help, see:
Graphics Skill 7.2: To type words into a text box
Word Processing Skill 3.1: To pick the letter design or font for your words
Word Processing Skill 3.3: To change the style of words
Word Processing Skill 3.4: To change the color of words

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Graphics Skill 6.7: To change the color RIDOLQHRUVKDSHVERUGHU
Graphics Skill 6.8: To change the fill color inside a shape

3. You might want to make a bulleted list to a section in your summary.

For help, see Word Processing Skill 4.7: To make a list of information with different symbols or a bulleted list

4. Save your work.

G. Format the Page to Two Columns

1. Move the cursor below the text box. Then, format the page so the information from
that point forward will split into two columns. You might wish to check the box to add a
line between your columns .
For help, see Word Processing Skill 6.6: To set up a page with columns, like a newspaper or a magazine
Note: %HVXUHWRVHOHFWThis point forwardZKHQIRUPDWWLQJWKHFROXPQV

2. Save your work.

H. Add Subtitle or Headings and Events to Your Newsletter

1. Type a subtitle, or heading, for the newsletter section on last ZHHNVHYHQWV. Below the
subtitle, write about the events. &KDQJHWKHORRNRIWKDWVHFWLRQVVXEWLWOHRUKHDGLQJ
so it stands out.
For help, see:
Word Processing Skill 3.1: To pick the letter design or font for your words
Word Processing Skill 3.3: To change the style of words
Word Processing Skill 3.4: To change the color of words

2. Save your work.

For help, see Word Processing Skill 1.7: To save a word processing document for different uses

I. Make a Bulleted List

1. Change the look of the lines of words so they are easy to read. You might want to
change the amount of space between lines, indent the first line of each paragraph, or
even make a bulleted list of items.
For help, see:
Word Processing Skill 4.1: To change the space between lines
Word Processing Skill 4.3: To move lines in a paragraph in or out, or to change the indent
Word Processing Skill 4.7: To make a list of information with different symbols or a bulleted list

2. Save the look, or formatting, of your subtitle and the lines of words below as styles
that you can use for the next section of the newsletter to save time.
For help, see Word Processing Skill 10.6: To make and use shortcuts to change the look of words

3. Save your work.

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J. Add Picture to Your Newsletter

1. Add a picture of one of the events that took place in the last week.
For help, see:
Word Processing Skill 5.2: To add a picture you have already made and saved on your computer
Word Processing Skill 5.1: To add premade computer pictures, or clip art
Word Processing Skill 5.3: To add a picture you have copied from a Web site or another document

2. Change the text wrapping so the words flow tightly around the picture. Then change
WKHSLFWXUHVVL]HDQGPRYHLWWRWKHSODFH\RXZDQW.
For help, see:
Word Processing Skill 5.4: To change the way words flow, or wrap, around a picture
Word Processing Skill 5.5: To make a picture bigger or smaller
Word Processing Skill 5.6: To move a picture

3. Save your work.

K. Insert a Column Break

1. Insert a column break.
For help, see Word Processing Skill 6.7: To end the information in one column and start it in the next

2. Save your work.

L. Add Text and Picture

1. Type a subtitle 6HUYLFHV. Below the subtitle, write about the local services and
businesses available in your community. Then, type a subtitle for the section about
what will happen in your community in the upcoming week. Below the subtitle, write
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the look of the subtitle and the lines of words below. You might want to change the
amount of space between lines, indent the first line of each paragraph, or even make a
bulleted list of items.
For help, see:
Word Processing Skill 4.1: To change the space between lines
Word Processing Skill 4.3: To move lines in a paragraph in or out, or to change the indent
Word Processing Skill 4.7: To make a list of information with different symbols or a bulleted list
Word Processing Skill 10.6: To make and use shortcuts to change the look of words

2. If you wish, you may add a picture of one of next ZHHNV HYHQWV. Change the text
ZUDSSLQJVRWKHZRUGVIORZWLJKWO\DURXQGWKHSLFWXUH7KHQFKDQJHWKHSLFWXUHVVL]H
and move it to the place you want.
For help, see:
Word Processing Skill 5.4: To change the way words flow, or wrap, around a picture
Word Processing Skill 5.5: To make a picture bigger or smaller
Word Processing Skill 5.6: To move a picture

3. Save your work.

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M. Add Text Box and Words in the Text Box

1. Make a text box in an empty space on the page. Type a title, 1HZV)ODVK. Then below
the title, t\SHWKHLQIRUPDWLRQDERXWWKHNews FlashChange the look of the words
and the text box to make this information really stand out.
For help, see:
Graphics Skill 7.1: To make a box so you can add words to a drawing
Word Processing Skill 3.1: To pick the letter design or font for your words
Word Processing Skill 3.3: To change the style of words
Word Processing Skill 3.4: To change the color of words
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Graphics Skill 6.7: To change the color RIDOLQHRUVKDSHVERUGHU
Graphics Skill 6.8: To change the fill color inside a shape

2. Save your work.

N. Save Newsletter as Document Template

1. Save the newsletter as a document template so you can use it over and over again to
quickly and easily make newsletters in the future.
For help, see Word Processing Skill 10.4: To make and use your own document style and template

2. To make sure the newsletter template works, start a new document by finding your
template file. Then, close the file without making or saving any changes.
For help, see Word Processing Skill 1.1: To start word processing software

3. Save your work.

O. Newsletter Challenge (Optional)

1. Add a pattern in the text boxes.
For help, see Graphics Skill 6.13: To fill a shape with colors that blend together, or a gradient

2. $GGDFDWFK\SKUDVHRUVORJDQDWWKHERWWRPRIWKHQHZVOHWWHULQWKHGRFXPHQWVIRRWHU.
Change the look of words anyway you wish.
For help. see:
Word Processing Skill 3.1: To pick the letter design or font for your words
Word Processing Skill 3.3: To change the style of words
Word Processing Skill 3.4: To change the color of words

3. Save your work.

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Community Newsletter Challenge Example

Review Your Work

Look over your newsletter. Make sure each has the following elements:

A title that explains what sort of information is in the newsletter

The newsletter edition and the date in a text box with a fill and a border

Information and a picture about recent and upcoming events

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If any of these elements are missing, add them now. You should also make any other desired changes.
Remember to save your work when you are finished.

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Optional: Print Your Newsletter

1. Preview your newsletter before you print it. Set up the document so it prints sideways,
or landscape.
For help, see:
Word Processing Skill 1.2: To use the Menu (Ribbon) bar
Word Processing Skill 1.3: To use the Standard (Quick Access) toolbar
Word Processing Skill 6.4: To setup a document so it prints sideways, or landscape
Word Processing Skill 6.18: To see how a document will look before you print it

2. To print your newsletter, click File. Then, click Print. A Print window pops up.
Note: For Microsoft*Office 2010 users, when you click the File tab, you will notice a Backstage view.

3. To select the printer you want to use, click the arrow in the Name or Printer list and
select the printer.
Note: You will notice that the box has a drop-down menu or a list which allows you to select one option from several
printer choices. If there is a drop-down menu, just click on the down arrow and move your cursor to the option you
would like to choose. If a list is displayed, scroll to the printer that you want. Highlight your choice, and then click on
it.

4. To select the page you want to print, place your cursor on that page and click Current
Page. Or, click Pages, and then type the page number that you would like to print.
Note: If your newsletter covers only page 1, then by default, the page will be automatically selected for printing.
You may skip this step and move to Step 5.

5. To select more than one copy you want to print, click the up arrow in the Number of
copies list.

Note: For Microsoft*Office 2010 users, click the up arrow in the Copies list.

Note: By default, the number of copies to be printed is 1. Just click on the up arrow for more than one copy to print.
Click on the down arrow for lesser number of copies to print.

6. Click OK or click Print.

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