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How to Use This Template


by [Article Author]

This newsletter is created primarily by using The reason these placeholders remain is that
text columns, so that text automatically they are linked to other placeholders that use
wraps from one column to the next. Find the the same text. So, when you replace the title
Columns feature on the Page Layout tab, in or subtitle placeholder text with your own, it
the Page Setup group. Get tips for setting up automatically populates the corresponding Article Title
A column break is inserted before and after each column
and using text columns later in this template placeholders in the headers and on the back
that acts as a sidebar. To insert a column break, press
page mailer. Ctrl+Shift+Enter. Or, on the Page Layout tab, in the
Adding your own content Page Setup group, click Breaks, and then click Column.
The placeholder text for several articles in Replacing pictures
this template provides tips on how to To replace a picture in this template with Page #
customize this newsletter for your needs. your own, select it and then, on the Picture
Tools Format tab, in the Adjust group, click
To replace any placeholder text with your Change Picture. (Or right-click a photo to
own, just select it and start typing. Note that access the Change Picture command.)
if the placeholder text you replace is long,
such as for this article, it might look like the The pictures that you see in sidebars, such as
page layout is skewed when you do this but it In This Issue at right, are formatted as In Line
is not. The content that sits lower on the With Text so that they sit right in a paragraph
page only moves up because less content is mark and can be formatted as easily as text.
present when you begin to replace your own The custom paragraph style named Sidebar
text. As you type to add your text, content photo applies indent formatting that helps
will move back into position automatically. align the photos perfectly with the other
sidebar content. Article Title
Placeholders that remain when To view column breaks, section breaks, and other
Pictures that wrap around some text in formatting marks, on the Home tab, in the Paragraph
you add text articles throughout the newsletter use text group, click the pargraph mark icon.
The title and subtitle placeholders don’t
settings and positioning. Get help for
disappear when you add your own text. They Page #
working with text wrap around pictures later
will look like regular text when printed but
in this template.
you can see the blue outline and title of the
placeholder when you click in it.
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Using Styles
by Name Style

The body text throughout the articles in this


template uses the Normal paragraph style.
Following are some other styles applied
throughout the template:

 Large article titles, such as on the first


page, use Heading 1 style.
 Orange headings in the sidebars and
within articles use Sidebar Heading
style.
 Orange section titles in articles use the
Heading 2 style.
 Small article titles use Heading 3 style. Access all styles used in this template on the name and then click Update [style] to Match
 This style is List Bullet 2. Home tab, in the Styles group. Selection.
This style is List Continue.
Using styles helps save you time and keep HEADING 4 STYLE
 Text in sidebars uses the Sidebar Text your document consistent. To modify a style,
style. on the Home tab, in the Styles group, right- Use the small tables provided in some of the
 White headings on orange text in tables click the name of the style you want to edit articles to call out quick reference information
uses the Heading 4 style. and then click Modify. All content where the related to the article, such as contact
style is applied will update automatically. information or event dates.
 The heading inside contact information
tables uses Heading 5 style. Another way to modify a style is to simply HEADING 5
Contact Info
 Contact Info is the name of the gray customize an instance of the style where it’s
text style inside the small contact applied in the document. Then, on the Home
tables. tab, in the Styles group, right-click the style

Working with Columns


by [Article Author]

To setup a document for multiple column Select a section break


text, on the Page Layout tab, in the Page When changing many types of page layout
Setup group, click Columns and then click formatting for just part of the document—
the number of columns you need. You can such as paper size, margins, or orientation,
also click More Columns to specify column the best section break type to use is a Next
widths, the space between columns, or to Page section break because it automatically
This picture caption uses the Caption 2 automatically add a vertical line between starts the new section on a new page.
paragraph style and is inside a text box columns. However, when changing the number of
so that you can move it easily as columns as you might in this newsletter, you
needed to accompany a photo. To change the number of columns for just may prefer to select a Continuous break. The
part of the document (or if you want text to continuous section break (used a few times
wrap to just the top part of the page and a throughout this template) starts a new
new article to start below – as shown on this section immediately after the preceding one.
page), insert a section break before the So, for example, you can have a three-
position where you want to start the new column article followed by a four-column
column layout. To do this, on the Page article, on the same page.
Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, click
Breaks and then click the type of section
break you need.
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HEADING 4
Caption 2 style is used to add
picture captions. Captions are in
text boxes for easy placement
relative to images.

Sidebar Setup
The sidebars in this template use simple, single-row
tables for the gray-shaded headings and

Formatting Tips
thermometer charts shown below for easy alignment.

by [Article Author]

This placeholder article provides the 3. On the Columns tab of the Table
following tips: Properties dialog box, change the
Measure In setting to Percentage. You
 Creating “thermometer charts” using can then set the percentage to up to one
tables, as shown at left. decimal point in accuracy.
 Setting up multipage articles.
Setting up multipage articles
 Wrapping text around images Word is designed to allow text to
Add Sidebar Content  Adding article titles and bylines automatically flow from one page to the
Adding content into a column to create a sidebar is no
next. So, when you want an article to
different from adding text. As noted earlier in this
template, apply the styles provided for headings,
Creating the sidebar continue on the next page, just keep typing.
sidebar text, and even pictures to align them quickly and thermometer charts
easily. When you work in Word 2010 (or PowerPoint In the case of this placeholder article, it is
2010), you have the full power of Excel 2010 separated into two placeholder content
FAST FACTS charts (provided that Excel is installed on controls (one on this page and another that
your computer). Insert a chart in Word from starts at the top of the following page) just so
the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group. that you can still see the layout of the

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Charts are easy to create and use and following page while you begin adding your
automatically coordinate with your active own text on this page. As
document theme. mentioned on the first page of
this template, remember that it
Learn about these “thermometer charts” in the article at However, notice in the sidebar at left that the might look like the layout is
right. “thermometer charts” were created using skewed when you
single-row Word tables. This is because they replace a long piece of
automatically fit the tight space without placeholder text by

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having to remove any chart elements. And starting to type your
you might be surprised to learn that it’s easy own, but it is not. As you
to make them essentially mathematically add your content, the
accurate. layout that follows will
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To use a table as a thermometer chart, do automatically and
the following: back into position.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
1. On the Insert tab, in the Tables group, To remove the second
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placeholder control that starts immediately
to select the first two cells in the first following this one, just select it and then
HEADING 5 row. Click to insert a two-cell, one-row press any key. You can then continue typing
Contact Info table. from this page and your text will
2. Click in the table and then, on the Table automatically flow onto the next.
Tools Layout tab, in the Table group,
click Properties.
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Wrap text around images 2. To set a specific position or control orange divider bars that you see on pages
The photos in this article that are angled with behavior (such as whether or not the containing more than one article are shapes
white borders are “floating” images. That is, image moves with text), on the Picture set to wrap text. So, these text boxes and
they are setup for text to wrap around Tools Format tab, in the Arrange shapes can easily span multiple columns
them—which is why they can span multiple group, click Position and then click without having to insert a section break or
columns in a three-column section. More Layout Options. change the number of columns for just that
Additionally, as mentioned earlier, the photo portion of the page.
 On the Text Wrapping tab of the
of the young woman in the body of this
Layout dialog box, you can set a specific When you select a text box or a shape, on the
article is set to wrap text so that text will flow
distance from the image for text to wrap Drawing Tools Format tab, in the Arrange
around the image as you add your own text.
and control whether text can wrap on group, you have the same settings for text
To select text wrap settings, start by both sides, one side only, or just above wrapping and positioning that are described
selecting the image and then do the and below the image. above for wrapping text around pictures.
following:  On the Position tab of that dialog box,
Note that, because text is set to wrap around
you can set a specific position for the
1. On the Picture Tools Format tab, in the the orange divider bars, your article might
image on the page and select or clear
Arrange group, click Wrap Text and then appear to slip below or above a bar,
the option to allow the picture to move
select either Square, Tight, or Top and depending upon length. To adjust the
with text.
Bottom—depending on how you want position of a divider bar shape to
the text to wrap. Adding article titles, bylines, accommodate the length of your articles,
just select the shape and then use the up and
and dividers down arrow keys on your keyboard to nudge
You might be happy with the default
The article titles and bylines for this
behavior as soon as you do this. it to the proper position.
newsletter are created in text boxes. This is
Otherwise, continue to step two for
because text can wrap around a text box just
customization options.
like it can around a picture. Similarly, the

Remove Image
Backgrounds
by [Article Author]

Notice the image of the young woman that’s page.


within a text column on the preceding page.
The background has been removed from that To do this in Word, first
image to allow text to wrap directly around insert your image into
the subject. the document (on the
Insert tab, click
Office 2010 introduced several new and Picture), and then
improved picture formatting tools in Word, select it. Then, on the
PowerPoint, and Excel. Among those is the Picture Tools Format
Remove Background tool that you can use to tab, in the Adjust
remove backgrounds from your own images, group, click Remove
Background. FOR MORE INFORMATION
similar to the sample image on the preceding
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The Remove Background feature ullamcorper ut, neo demoveo. Vel reprobo:
automatically displays what it believes to be
the central subject of the image. However, HEADING 5
it’s easy to adjust this if the immediate result Contact Info
is not what you need.

On the Background Removal tab, click Mark


Areas to Keep or Mark Areas to Remove
and then drag your mouse pointer in a line
across the portion of the image you want to
add or remove. When you are finished
making adjustments, click Keep Changes.
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