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IT CAN BE DONE! <\/div>Document Design & Page Layout in MS Word"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Contents & Navigation<\/div>\n
word for desktop publishing<\/a><\/div>\n
tips for design<\/a><\/div>\n
On Other Pages<\/div>\n
text borders<\/a><\/div>\n
small caps & character spacing<\/a><\/div>\n
hats design<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Professional document formatting and design can be done in Microsoft Word!<\/div>\n
All of the documents on this page were created in MS Word\u2014every single one.<\/div>\n
No templates. No pre-made anything. No other applications. Just Word.<\/div>\n
Open up a blank document\u200a.\u200a.\u200a.\u200a and go from there.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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English Department Fall 2020 Newsletter\u200a.\u200a.\u200a.\u200a design and layout for all 15 pages done in MS Word [\u200aview\u200a\/\u200adownload<\/a>\u200a]<\/div>\n
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PTWC Course Offerings\u200a.\u200a.\u200a.\u200a done in MS Word<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Word for Desktop Publishing<\/h3>\n

Microsoft Word is a word processor and text editor, but it\u2019s also rich with formatting options that allow users to professionally design documents in a range of genres (traditional 8.5\u201d x 11\u201d documents, as well as business cards, brochures, fliers, direct mail, postcards, etc.).<\/p>\n

Just as an FYI, professional looking, “advanced” (and complicated) page design is totally possible in MS Word.<\/p>\n

Here’s a teeny tiny secret… not only do I do all of my page design in MS Word, I don’t even know how to use Adobe InDesign (and MS Publisher isn’t available for Mac, so I’ve never even tried it).<\/p>\n

How do I do design in Word? I try stuff. If I can’t figure out how to do something, I Google to find answers, I watch YouTube videos, and I wrestle with the frustration of learning new things.<\/p>\n

Just last month, I started (and finished) designing the English Department’s annual newsletter<\/a> in MS Word\u2014all 15 pages of it. While I was doing it, I learned a new thing in Word that I had no idea even existed (it’s the “selection pane” where you can move page objects backwards or forwards… sorta like layers in Photoshop, though not as easy to use). And that’s my approach\u2014I figure stuff out when I have to. Sure, there are bunches of tutorials to learn how to design in Word, but I’m not the sort of person who can retain that kind of information unless I’m in the middle of a real project.<\/p>\n

At the least, all of the documents here prove that awesome (or at least good<\/em>) page design can<\/em> be done in Word. It doesn’t require any Adobe applications and it doesn’t require any advanced knowledge. Good document design requires MS Word, Google, the will to figure things out, and a little patience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Handout for a WGSS Career Symposium\u200a.\u200a.\u200a.\u200a design and layout done in MS Word<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Brief ENC 3213 Syllabus\u200a.\u200a.\u200a.\u200a done in MS Word<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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“Tips” For Design in MS Word<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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