We use MS Publisher 2003.
Here are the basic steps to setting up our newsletter:
Open the program.
- Select: Publications for Print
- Click: Newsletters
- Click: Banded Newsletter
- In left sidebar, click: Color Schemes
- Select the best color scheme to fit your school colors.
This is the template we use.
There are countless free newsletter templates for MS Publisher you can download off the Internet. Just use Google to find them.
A Note on MS Word vs MS Publisher
Instead of retyping an entire text into Publisher, a student can cut&paste text from the MS Word page written in Phase V.
But, there are some formatting issues that make the text in MS Publisher look different.
It can be easier for students (and teachers) unfamiliar with editing content in MS Publisher to retype the article instead of using cut&paste.