How to Write a Newsletter (Office 2007)
Susan Spangler

Step One:  Setting up the Page

1. Open a Word® Document
2. Click on “Page Layout” and scroll down to and click on “Normal” for 1-inch margins all around.   
3. SAVE!!  Click on the Office button in the upper left-hand corner, and scroll down to and click on “Save As.”  Choose the spot where you want to save the document, give it a title, and click the “save” button.
4. Now choose an appropriate font on the toolbar.  Click on “Home” and choose from the drop-down menu of fonts.    
5. Click the “center” alignment button in the “Paragraph” section on the tool bar. 
6. For the title, change the font to a larger size like 24 or larger by changing the number in the “Font” section on the toolbar.
7. Type the title of your newsletter and “enter.”
8. Then change the font size back to something more reasonable (something in the 10-12 range).

Step Two:  Making Columns

9. Click on the “left” align button in the “Paragraph” section on the toolbar.
10. Click on “Page Layout” on the tool bar.  Click on  the “columns” icon and then scroll down to select “more columns.”  A dialogue box will appear.   
11. Click on “two” columns, and the column width and spacing will automatically adjust below.  If you’d like a line in between the columns, click in that box [the line won’t show up until you type enough to get to the second column], and be sure to click “from this point forward” in the “apply to:” box at the bottom of the dialogue box.  Click “OK.”
12. Save!!!

Step Three:  Typing Your Newsletter

13. Begin typing with a sub heading by bolding the font or italicizing it, or maybe making it two sizes bigger….
14. Type your article, spacing as you will.
15. Save every 10 minutes.

Step Four:  Inserting a Picture

16. To insert a picture, “enter” from your last line of text where you want the picture. 
17. Click on the “center” alignment button in the “Paragraph” section on the tool bar.
18. Click on “Insert” on the tool bar.
19. Click on “Clip Art,” in the “Illustrations” section on the toolbar.  This will bring up a side menu, where you can search for what you’d like to put in your newsletter.  When you find what you like, click on it to insert it.  You may have to resize it by clicking and dragging on the black border to get it to fit in your column. “Enter” again after you have inserted it.
20. SAVE!!
21. Click the “left” alignment button in the “Paragraph” section again to continue your text.  Continue typing and inserting pictures until you run out of room!  You might leave room to sign it….
22. SAVE!!!

Step 5:  Adding a Border

23. If you would like to add a border, click on “Page Layout,” “Page Borders” in the “Page Background” section on the toolbar.  This will bring up a dialogue box.  On the “Page Borders” (middle) tab, you can choose from lines, or you can view more colorful borders on the “Art” drop-down menu.  Choose a style and select an appropriate size.