Create a Company Flyer
Lesson Plan
Grading Rubric

Word 2007 Instructions:

Create a flyer advertising one one of your company's products, a sale, or an upcoming event. Possible examples could include a blow out sale, members only sale, etc.

Start Word 2007:

To start your Table of Contents open Microsoft Word (Programs > All Programs > Microsoft Office > Word 2007.

Click the Office button in the top left corner of the document window and select new from the drop down menu. Select new blank document:

Save Your Work:

Click the Office button again and select Save As from the drop down menu and name your file Business Flyer. See the information below on how you want to save your document.

Include a Decorative Font:

With the home tag selected click on the font face dropdown list and choose a font of your choice. Also size your font to fit on the page.

Center the Text Vertically on the Page:

Select all your text by holding down the left mouse button and dragging all the text of use the shortcut keys Ctrl + A.

Click the center alignment button in the home section. Your text should be even distributed on the page both vertically as well as horizontally.

Include a Decorative Art Page Border:

With the Page Layout tab selected click on the Page Borders button to open the Boarders and Shading dialog box.

With the Page Border tab selected click the Art dropdown list and choose a page border that will complement your page, one that goes along with the theme of your business.

Include a Watermark that Goes Along with the Theme of Your Company:

The first thing you will need to do is create your watermark. Open a new blank word document. .With the Insert tab selected click the Clip Art button to open the Clip Art dialog box.

At the Insert ClipArt dialog box, click in the Search for clips text box and key in a description of what you want to appear as a background image, and then press Go. This will generate a list of clipart graphics you can use.

Click on the image you want to appear in the background as a watermark. It will appear at the top left hand side of your page.

Decrease or increase the image by dragging the sizing handles (they are shown above and are the circle/rectangles that appear around the image) to the size you want it to appear behind the text.

With the image still selected (it will appear with a rectangle around as shown above) and click on text wrapping and select behind text.

You will now be able to move your image to the center of your document. Drag you image so that is appears to be center aligned both vertically and horizontally.

With the Page Layout tab selected click Watermark and then select Save Selection to Watermark Gallery.

Give your Watermark and name then click OK to add your watermark to the Watermark Gallery.

Close this document without saving it. We just used it to create the watermark for our flyer which is now saved to the Watermark Gallery. Return to your flyer and click Watermark then scroll down and click on the saved watermark that you created.

Your watermark now appears on your page.

Save your document and name it Flyer. Proofread and spell check you document then submit it for grading.

Word 2003 Instructions:

Create a flyer advertising one one of your company's products, a sale, or an upcoming event.

• Include decorative fonts by selecting the entire document (Ctrl + A) and choosing the size and face located on the Formatting Toolbar.

• Center the text vertically on the page by completing the following steps:
  
  • Click File, then Page Setup.
    
  • At the Page Setup dialog box, click the Layout tab.
    
  • At the Page Setup dialog box with the Layout tab selected, click the down-pointing triangle at the right side of the Vertical alignment text box, and then click Center at the drop-down list.

  
  

  • Click OK to close the Page Setup dialog box.
    
• Include a decorative art page border by completing the following steps:
  
  • Display the Borders and Shading dialog box (Format>Borders and Shading).
    
  • At the Borders and Shading dialog box, click the Page Border tab.
    
  • Click the Box button in the Setting section.
    
  • Click the down-pointing triangle at the right side of the Art text box.
    
  • At the drop-down list that displays, scroll down the list and choose a border that would accent your page.

• Click OK or close the dialog box.
  
• Include a watermark that goes along with your company theme by completing the following steps:
  
  • Move the insertion point to the beginning of the document.
    
  • Display the Insert ClipArt dialog box (Insert-Picture-ClipArt).
    
  • At the Insert ClipArt dialog box, click in the Search for clips text box, key in a description of what you want to appear as a background image, and then press Enter. If you don't find what you are looking for, there are two other ways to look for images:
    
    • Display the Insert ClipArt dialog box.
      
      • .At the Insert ClipArt dialog box, click the Clips Online button at the top of the box.
        
      • Click OK at the Connect to Web for More ClipArt, Photos, Sounds.
        
      • Clip Accept to disabling Javascript.
      • At the Online Insert ClipArt dialog box, click in the Search for clips text box, key in a description of what you want to appear as a background image, and then press Enter.
        
    • The second way to choose an image at the ClipArt dialog box is to already have a picture you wish to use in your student folder.
      
      • Display the Insert ClipArt dialog box.
        
      • At the Insert ClipArt dialog box, click the Import Clips button at the top of the box.
        
      • When you have found the image you wish to use, click the image and then click the Insert clip button (the first choice given).

  
  

  • Close the Insert ClipArt dialog box.
    
  • Click once on the image to select it.
    
  • Decrease or increase the image by dragging the bottom right sizing handle to the size you want to appear behind the text.
    
  • Click the Image Control on the Picture toolbar , the second button from the left, and then click Watermark at the drop-down list that displays.(If the Picture toolbar is not displayed, display it by positioning the mouse pointer on the image, clicking the right mouse button, and then clicking Show Picture Toolbar.)

  
  

  • If you wish to have your image a little darker or lighter, click the more brightness or less brightness button on the Picture Toolbar (the one that is a sun icon).
    
  • Click the Text Wrapping button on the Picture toolbar, the one that displays a puppy icon, and then click Behind Text at the drop-down list.
    
  • With the watermark image still selected, drag it to the right so is is better centered beneath the text.

  
  

  • Click outside the image to deselect it.
    
• Save your document and name it Flyer.
• Proofread and spell check you document. Have you teacher check it over, then print it out for your portfolio. Make sure you have your teacher fill in your grade for this project on you Grading Rubric.