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Valentines Card for your sweetie from Microsoft Office Templetes. Just download and print from your home office. There are several to choose from on their download site.

How about a special Powerpoint Valentine to share with your loved ones?

Throwing a Valentines Party? Send out E-Vites with this Microsoft invitation templete.

Make a Valentine’s Day card
Let’s create a card. There are a number of Valentine’s Day templates to choose from on Office Online. If you find one you like, you can print it, sign it, and, voilà — you’re done! You have an instant Valentine’s Day card, sure to be a pleaser.

But what if you want to make your own card with personal touches? Let’s make one from scratch in Publisher.

Step 1: Choose the predesigned publication and layout
Start Publisher. In the New Publication task pane, click Publications for Print, click Greeting Cards, and then click Valentine’s Day.
Scroll through the pre-designed greeting card publications on the right. Select any one you want, as we’ll soon customize it. In this example, we’re using Valentine’s Day Card 11.
In the Greeting Cards Options task pane, under Design, click the option that allows you to modify the layout and appearance of the original design. In this example, we’ll use Art Bit.
Note Some card designs, such as the Fading Frame and Tipped Title designs, are set up for only one layout option. If you choose one of these designs, the layout options displayed under Design in the Greeting Card Options task pane will not be available.

Click Page Options, and then choose the card size and fold style you want under Size and Fold.
Click Color Schemes, and then choose your color scheme.
Click Font Schemes, and then choose your font scheme.
When your greeting card looks the way you want, save the file.
Step 2: Choose the right clip art
Next, let’s change the clip art on this card. Nice heart, but let’s delete it and find another clip.

Step 3: Copy and paste clip art from the Web into your document
On the Clip Art and Media search results page, click on Copy to Clipboard for the clip you want to copy.
Go to your Publisher Valentine’s Day template. On the Edit menu, click Paste.

Give to your Favorite Valentine!

you run a typical business, you probably create certain publications — such as newsletters, flyers, postcards, and gift certificates — over and over again. Although each new version is unique, some elements remain consistent, like your company name and address.

In a monthly newsletter, for example, much of the layout stays the same, but the content of the newsletter changes for each version.

You can make a template from any publication by saving that publication as a Publisher template file. When you start a new publication by selecting a template, a copy of the template file opens, so that the original template isn’t altered by mistake. If you want to make changes to a template, you can open a copy of the template file, make the changes that you want, and then save it again as a template.

You can save time by designing a master publication that reflects your company brand and identity and then saving it as a template. Then, each time you want to create a new version, you can use the template and add only the information that is unique to that version. Using a template for a publication that you regularly produce not only saves time but also ensures quality and consistency.

There are many ways to create a publication in Publisher. Publisher offers designs with dynamic features that make it easy to change the design, layout, colors, and other elements.

Publisher is great for any business, small or large. See what Publisher can do for you and your business.

From inside office online: Another recent post from our fellow Office Onliners in the UK that caught my eye this week.

Phil Evans gives some quick advice and links to favorite free templates for newsletters and cards. Whether you send them via post or email.–Doug

Newsletters

- Keep it short. I tend to keep it no longer than one page. This strikes a good balance between giving you enough space to write something interesting, but not overwhelming people.

- Keep it interesting. Think about what your audience will find interesting in your life this year, and write according to that. Throwing in one or two short, humorous anecdotes will also help keep people reading.

- If you’re going to print it, do it on paper that is easy on the eye. I once had an aunt who used to print her newsletter on the most horrendous pink, yellow and red paper. With patterns down the side. You know, I’m not sure I ever got to find out what had gone on in her life, as immediately after opening the newsletters I usually fell into seizures induced by the paper.

- Add photos or clip art (or both) to bring what you’re talking about to life and break up the text.

- Don’t get bogged down in the process of trying to create it from scratch. Download a template, customize it to fit your needs, and Bob’s your uncle.

Cards

I’m consistently amazed by the ridiculous prices that shops can command for small pieces of card at this time of the year. I’m also amazed at the amount of paper that is wasted each year, given how much we are all trying to avert a global warming-induced wasteland. With these two things in mind, you should remember that with Office you can create your own cards, create as many copies as you need, and save yourself a bundle. You can then email them to some or all of the people on your list. And, if you do want to print them, many of the Office card templates work with the specialty papers (card, envelopes, labels, etc) that you can buy at the shops - so your card will look pretty professional.

Office Publisher 2007 has been redesigned to make it even easier to quickly create or open publications. You can create your own publications with the professionally designed Publisher templates, customize the templates as needed, and then change from one type of publication to another by clicking a single button.

Get Help with Publisher Tasks

Office Publisher 2007 contains a new task pane, Publisher Tasks, that includes tips for creating your publication and quick links to frequently used features, such as the color scheme section of the Format Publication task pane. Publisher Tasks articles provide step-by-step assistance to help you use Publisher to communicate with your clients and manage your outreach efforts more effectively.

Learn how to write effective marketing publications, customize a publication with your business branding colors and fonts, prepare a publication for your mailing list or e-mail list, track the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, and perform e-mail marketing.

For example, you can click Publisher Tasks and use the tips that you find to create a newsletter for your business.

Create a new publication
Start Publisher, and then click one of the publication types in the Publication Types list.

For example, click Newsletters.
In the Newsletters catalog, click the design that you want, choose any other options that you want, such as a color scheme or a business information set, and then click Create.

Note: For more information about publication options such as font schemes, and business information sets, see Create and change font schemes for a professional look and Create, change, or

To get helpful tips, click Publisher Tasks .

Note After you create or open a publication in Office Publisher 2007, it is listed in the Recent Publications list. The Recent Publications list includes the last nine publications that you opened in Office Publisher 2007.

Quickly create a different publication

Do you need to create several publications for the same business? You can create different publication types that use the same options and information — such as the same color scheme and business information set. You can also quickly change from one publication type to another.

For example, if you are creating a newsletter but you are interrupted to create a business card, you can click Change Template and then select Business Cards as the new publication type. The new business card contains your color and font schemes, your business information set, and any other appropriate information that you added to the newsletter publication.

Important If you convert a saved publication to a different publication type, be sure to save the new publication with a new file name, or you may overwrite your earlier publication.

Publisher features templates that you can use to create a short catalog. Just choose a catalog template, and then replace the placeholder pictures with your own and type in the text that you want.

Your catalog merge template should have the same layout (page size and orientation) that you want for your final merged pages. Also, it should contain any text or graphics that you want to appear on each page of your final publication, for example, a background image or the name of your company.

If you plan to add your merged pages to the end of an existing publication, make sure that your catalog merge template matches the existing publication in the following ways:

Page size (height and width)
Page view (one-page spread or two-page spread)
Publication type (Web or print)
Page order (left-to-right or right-to-left)

Create the catalog merge template
On the File menu, click New.
In the New Publication task pane, click Blank Page Sizes, and then choose the size that you want..
Note If you plan to post your catalog to a Web site, click Web Sites under Blank Page Sizes, and then click the size that matches your target screen resolution.

Click Create.
On the File menu, click Page Setup.
In the Page Setup dialog box, make any changes to the margins that you want, and then click OK.
On the Tools menu, point to Mailings and Catalogs, and then click Catalog Merge.

Connect to your data source
After you format your catalog merge template page, use the Catalog Merge task pane to create or locate and connect to your data source. The option that you choose next depends on whether you already have a data source or whether you want to create a new list in Publisher.

In the Catalog Merge task pane, under Select Product List, do one of the following:
Click Use an existing list if you already have a data source that you want to use.
Click Select from Outlook Contacts if you want to create a directory of your contacts.
Select Type a new list if you need to create the data source for your merge.
Click Next: Create or connect to a product list.

Use an existing list
In the Select Data Source dialog box, locate and click the data source that you want.
By default, Publisher saves data sources in the My Data Sources folder. You may need to browse to the My Data Sources folder to locate your data source.

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