Importing a picture

Pictures and graphics play an important part in document design. They help to break up long pieces of text, provide focal points of interest for the reader and help to convey important information. To add a picture to your poster:

  1. Select the round frame.

  2. From the Edit menu, select Insert. The Insert submenu appears.

  3. From the Insert submenu, select Picture. The Import Picture dialog box appears.

  4. Double-click on the PROGRAM FILES folder, then the folder you installed Publisher into, then the DOCUMENTS folder and finally the TUTORIALS folder.

  5. Select Poster.jpg.

  6. Click on Open. The picture is now imported into the selected frame.

Click away from the page to make sure nothing is selected. Your finished poster should look like the picture below:

To save your document, select Save As from the File menu and refer to the section ‘Saving your document’ in the chapter entitled ‘Saving and Printing’ in the manual.