Certificate in Page Maker (CPM)

[Book Work]

• Using PageMaker 7

• Using the toolbox
• Working with palettes
• Viewing pages
• Scrolling within a window
• Working with text and graphics
• Moving between pages
• Adding and deleting pages
• Working with multiple open publications
• Managing story windows
• Tiling and cascading windows
• Setting defaults and preferences
• Using the right mouse button
• Correcting mistakes
• Undoing changes and reverting publications
• Creating and opening publications
• Opening an existing publication
• Opening previous versions publications
• Using. the Cross-Platform PageMaker Converter
• Using templates
• Adding text and graphics to templates
• Building, your own template
• Naming and saving a publication
• Specifying a Save Option preference
• Saving, linked and associated files with a publication
• Saving a file to open in an earlier version of PageMaker
• Closing a publication
• Setting up pages
• Setting margins
• Setting print-related Document Setup options
• Changing Document Setup options
• Master pages
• Invisible grid defined by rulers
• Overriding the unit of measure
• Using the zero point
• Working with nonprinting guides
• Setting up column guides
• Moving and locking columns
• Creating a page with different column setups
• Setting up ruler guides
• Applying grids
• Mirroring and cloning grids
• Copying grids
• Managing grids
• Numbering pages
• Rearranging pages
• Resizing the Sort Page thumbnails
• Changing document setup
• Creating running headers and footers
• Positioning and formatting running headers and footers
• Defining header and footer content

• Text Formatting in PageMaker 7

• Creating text blocks
• Creating text frames
• Comparing text frames and text blocks
• Selecting text or text objects
• Importing text
• Placing text on a page
• Understanding text objects and stories
• Working with windowshades
• Threading text blocks
• Threading text frames
• Moving between text frames
• Redirecting text flow in threaded text frames
• Deleting threaded text objects
• Moving and resizing text objects
• Balancing columns (text blocks only)
• Controlling page and column breaks
• Counting stories, words, and other items, Moving between story editor and layout view
• Cutting, copying, and pasting text
• Setting text preferences
• Formatting text, Using the Control palette to format text
• Formatting characters
• Applying a font
• Applying horizontal scale
• Applying a type style, Changing case
• Specifying the position of text, Applying tracking, Formatting paragraphs
• Setting indents and tabs
• Creating a hanging indent
• Adding bullets and numbers in front of paragraphs
• Adding rules above or below paragraphs
• Adding space above or below paragraphs
• Using paragraph styles
• Creating and editing paragraph styles
• Applying a style to a paragraph
• Finding and changing text and text attributes
• Checking spelling
• Understanding tracking and kerning, Tracking type
• Copying tracks to another font
• Proofing tracked text, Kerning type
• Understanding hyphenation and justification
• Setting word and letter spacing
• Aligning paragraphs, Leading: Adjusting the space between lines of text
• Selecting a leading value

• Using Graphic Objects in PageMaker 7

• Using the drawing tools
• Changing strokes and fills
• Using frames, Taking advantage of frames
• Comparing frames, text blocks, and drawn objects
• Creating a frame, Adding content to a frame
• Selecting frames & content, Positioning content within a frame
• Duplicating an object
• Changing the stacking order of objects
• Deleting an object, Manipulating an object using the Control palette
• Control palette basics
• Using the reference-point Proxy, Modifying objects by adjusting values
• Setting measurement and nudge preferences
• Moving and resizing an object
• Grouping and ungrouping objects
• Locking objects, Aligning and distributing objects
• Rotating an object
• Attaching a graphic to text
• Using image control on a bitmap
• Document printing options, Page range options