Inserting, Reordering, Renaming and Deleting Pages in Publisher 2013
In Publisher 2013 there are several particularly important functions pertaining to pages: Insert, Reorder, Rename and Delete. Pages can be Inserted into publications through the Insert Tab as well as the Insert Page dialogue, allowing users to insert single or multiple pages into a publication either as blank documents or duplicates of existing pages. Reordering pages can be done through the Pages pane as well as through the Move command. Similarly, pages can be Renamed or Deleted through the Rename and Delete commands, respectively. Redundant Delete, Move and Rename commands can be found in the Page Design Tab.
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In this video, we will take a look at how you can resize, move, or crop an image within Publisher 2013.
Images and illustrations are important to any publication as they provide visuals for your readers. The last thing you want to do when you make most publications is to fill it with nothing but text. Because images allow you to make your publication more attractive, it’s important that these images are the correct size, in the correct location, and cropped, if necessary.
Moving an image to it’s desired location is fairly easy. If you are familiar with moving an image within Word or PowerPoint, then you can do the same thing to move an image within Publisher. To move an image, simply select the image and drag and drop it to a new location. One thing that you might notice as you are moving your images around are the guidelines that are displayed when you are close to lining up the image with either the border of the page (such as what I’m doing now) or to the left, center, or right alignment of another image. These guidelines are available to help you line up objects on your page in a way that make sense and looks good to the user.
If you’d like to resize an image, there are a couple of ways that you can achieve that task. First, you can select and drag any one of the sizing handles that appear when you have an image selected. You can also resize an image to a specific height and width when you select the image and within the Format tab, change the height and width measurement that are displayed in the size group all the way to the right of the Ribbon.
For demonstration purposes, I’m going to select an image and resize the height to 5 inches. Notice that when I resize this image to be 5 inches in height, you’ll notice that the width changes as well. The reason that this happens is that by default all images are going to have a setting enable called Lock Aspect Ratio. This setting ensures that you will not make your image disproportionate because doing so causes the image to look stretched or too compressed. However, it’s important to know that if you DO NOT want to constrain the proportions of your image, you can turn of this setting. Within the Format tab, in the Size group, click the More button in the button right hand corner of the group. Notice the small checkbox that says Lock Aspect Ratio. I’m going to unselect this box and then click OK so that I can demonstrate what it looks like if you were to change the height of the image now. Notice that the width of the image didn’t change and the image now looks like it’s very stretched out – which is definitely not a good thing!
There are also two options that are available to you, should you be using picture placeholders within your publication. To demonstrate, I’m going to insert an image placeholder within the document. Then, I’m going to add an image of a golf ball. When the image is inserted into the placeholder, click on the Format tab and within the Crop group, there are two icons that will allow us to resize our image. The first button is the Fit button. This button allows you to quickly resize the pictures so that the entire picture displays within the image placeholder and maintains its aspect ratio. The second icon is the Fill button. This option allows you to resize the image so that the entire image placeholder is filled while maintaining the aspect ratio.
The last thing we’ll talk about in this tutorial is the ability to crop and image within Publisher 2013. Cropping allows you remove unwanted parts of an image so that they do not display in your publication. It’s important to remember that when you crop an image within Publisher, you are not actually cropping the original image that is stored on your computer.
To crop an image, select the image and click the Crop button located within the Crop group. Then, move the sizing handles so that you have selected only the part of the image that you want to keep. When you’re satisfied, click somewhere outside of the image to crop the picture.
Keep in mind that if you’d like to crop an image to match a shape, you can select an image and click the arrow below the Crop button within the ribbon. Then, you could select the shape from the gallery. In this case, I’m going to choose a rounded rectangle shape. Once the image is cropped to the shape, you can then crop the image normally and the rounded rectangle shape will stay intact. If you’d like to clear the cropping from an image, simply select the image and click the Clear Cropping button within the Crop group.
This concludes our tutorial on how to move, resize, and crop an image within Publisher 2013. In the next video, we’re going to take a look at how to work with the adjust settings when working with images.
Simon Calder
Chris “Simon” Calder was working as a Project Manager in IT for one of Los Angeles’ most prestigious cultural institutions, LACMA.He taught himself to use Microsoft Project from a giant textbook and hated every moment of it. Online learning was in its infancy then, but he spotted an opportunity and made an online MS Project course - the rest, as they say, is history!
