pdf file, saving the files as LastName + FirstName + Period + Manage Colors and add it to your folder. When you have finished, you will save it as an. Use Ctrl + Shift + 4 to take a screen shot to show me what you have done. Chose a new font and adjust the spacing of your characters and lines so that it looks correct.ĭown the Managing Colors Worksheet and read How to Manage Colors found the right and create the list below.

Then add text boxes for the address and return address. Make sure you are using proper alignment. Add a grid for the address, stamp, and return address. Read How to Use Grids and Guides to add guides for you to use on the envelop. Follow the guides exact directions to achieve a document that looks like Figure 11. You will use this guide to help you create a new document. Probably not the clearest way to explain that but I just woke up lol.Read How to setup a document. On your page, the element will go to 15mm from the top but the background will remain pink because you changed that in the page. In the master, you move your block to 15mm from the top, and change the background to green. Unless you changed that very part of the element on your page.īack to our example, on your page, you change the background to pink. When you unlink an element, you can still modify it in the master and the modification will apply to the element.

You apply the master to a page and free/unlink (not sure how it is called in English) the block from the master so you can modify it. Let's say your master has a graphic frame with a yellow background, positionned 5mm from the top and 5mm from the left. When you apply a master to a page, not only it will put everything that's on your master on the pages, but it will also allow you to modify them later. Done.Įverybody already told you how useful styles can be. We reduced the font size just a notch in the body text paragraph style, we moved our blocks on the master pages so everything fit in the new size. The document was almost 100 pages long, so yeah, that sounded pretty bad. A couple months ago a client called us one day before the work was to be sent to the printer and told us something like 'OMG OMG OMG we made a huge mistake, the page size we gave you weeks ago and you've been using since are wrong and we still need you to send it to the printer tomorrow!!! 911!!! Help!!!'

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