Saturday, September 10, 2011

How to design beautiful in MS Word

I have just taken part in an Environment Protection club. And this week we are organizing an activity-to call on people to protect our forest. And my job is to make a notice, which will be delivered to people that day. You know, a beautiful sign notice will attract more attention of people. It is a pity that except Word I cannot use this kind of softwares such as Photoshop, Dreamweaver and so on. Can I use Microsoft Word to make a beautiful sign?

  1. Start a new document to get ready. Choose "Page Layout", and there are many choices.
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  2. First, choose "Margins" > "Custom Margins" .
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  3. You set up the margins 0.5 as follows to make the sign use most available space.
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  4. Set Gutter Position as Left and Orientation as Landscape.
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  5. Choose "Apply to whole document" in Apply to drop-down list so that you can see the entire page. Then click "OK" .
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  6. The page has a little differences.Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  7. Choose "Insert", and click the Shapes arrow. Then select the Rectangle.
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  8. A rectangle appears on the page.
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  9. Click "Format" to choose one style from shape styles.
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  10. The selected shape style is as follows.
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  11. Follow the steps of making rectangles to make another below the first one. And then hold on "Shift" key; at the same time, click one rectangle and then another.
  12. Right mouth click, "Grouping" > "Group".
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  13. The two rectangles are together.
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  14. Click "Insert" > "Text Box".
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  15. You can also set up the second recntangle. Change the color and weight as follows. Then click "OK" .
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  16. You will get two rectangles' outline the same color .
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  17. Click the arrow, and choose "Draw Text box".
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft WordDesign Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  18. You can also set up the text box. Click the Color arrow and select "No Fill".
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  19. Click the "Shape Outline" , and choose "No Outline".
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  20. Type your words into the textbox.
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  21. To make your sign more pretty, you can insert pictures. Click Insert-> Illustrations-> Picture.
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  22. Click "Insert" > "Picture" and the picture is on the page.
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  23. Now, you have designed beautiful signs in word.
    Design Beautiful Signs in Microsoft Word
  24. You can save it and then print it. Then you can deliver it to people in the activity.

Tips

I just display the main steps, and there are really many details you can make your decisions by yourselves. For example, the words' color, size and formats, you can adjust them as you make your normal word documents. Moreover, select the background's color and pictures to match your theme.


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