Desktop publishing-Microsoft publisher

USING MICROSOFT PUBLISHER 2003

Publisher 2003 is the desktop publishing program in office 2003. Business professionals can create eye-catching 

• brochures

• web sites

• PDF

• banner

• Newsletter

• Poster

• Flyer

• Leaftets

• Newspapers

• Magazines 

And other marketing materials, without the use of a professional designer.

Using File Types

By default, publishers 2003 will save your file as a publication with the .pub extension. In the save as type drop-down menu, the .pub extension is also applied to publisher 2002 files, publisher 2000 files, publisher 98 files, and publisher Templates.

Publisher 2003 allows you to open, edit a'd save publisher-generated HTML files from within publisher. Publisher-generad HTML files have an .htm or .HTML file extension, plus an accompanying folder containing associated files. Alternatively, saving a publication with the .mht or .mhtml extension create a web archive which encapsulates texts and graphics into a single file.

Note; HTML files can' be viewed by all web browsers; MHTML files are supported by Internet Explorer version 4.0 or later.

Publisher files can also be saved as picture files, postscript files, and word, work, and wordperfect files.

Using the Microsoft web site

The Microsoft office web site provides publisher users with support, downloads, tools, and product documentation. You visit their site http://www.microsoft.com/office/publisher/

Getting to know the publisher Environment

Working in the publisher window

• The publisher window can be divided into four distinct areas:

• The publication window is the main of the publication window.

Note: in all other Office 2003 applications, the task pane is on the right.

• The publication Gallery can be displayed or hidden. When displayed, the publication Gallery covers the publication Window.

• That status is situated at the bottom of the publication window.

Using the publication window

• The publication window is where you create your desktop publishing materials, including entering text a'd inserting pictures a'd objects. 

• By default, the publ window is covered by the publication Gallery when open Microsoft publisher.

Using the task pane

• The Task pane lists some of the most common task you may want to perform in publisher. Task pane titles are descriptive to help you quickly locate the task you want. Publisher 2003 contains number of new task panes.

• Task panes now available include Help, Search Results, Clip Art, Research, Clipboard, New publication, Find and Replace, Graphics Manager, Design Checker, Edit Master pages, Background, styles and Formatting, Font Schemes, and Mail and Catalog Merge.

• By default, the New publication Task pane is displayed when you open Microsoft Publisher.

To display the tesk pane (if it has been closed)

• From the main menu, select View > Task pane ( you will see a check mark beside it when' the Task pane is visible).

To display other Task panes

• Click the other Task pane down arrow and select another Task pane from the drop-down menu:

To switch between the most recent Task panes

• Click the Back or Forward arrows in the upper-left corner of the Task pane.

• To close a Task pane

• Click the X to the right of the other Task pane down arrow.

Note: Individual Task panes are discussed in greater detail later in this training Manual.

Using the publication Gallery

The Publication Gallery is a visual gallery of all publication designs available for use. Publishers 2003 boasts a wide array of new publication design templates from which you can' choose the design you need 

To display or hide the publication Gallery

• To display the publication Gallery, click on the publication category you need from the New from a design list displayed on the New publication Task pane:

• To show the publication Gallery, select a publication type from the New from a design sub-menu list

• The publication window will now be displayed.

Using the status Bar

• The Status Bar displays information on object position and Object Size, and offers page Navigation for publications with multiple pages. 

To show the Status Bar

• From the main, select View > Status Bar ( you will not see a check mark beside it when the status Bar is visible).

To hide the Status Bar

• From the main menu, select View > Status Bar ( you will not see a check mark beside it when' the Status Bar is hidden ).

Getting to know publisher Toolbars

Using Toolbars

• Publishers has eight (8) toolbars including the Task pane. By default, the Standard, Formatting, Task pane, Connect Text Boxes, and Objects toolbars are displayed. The remaining three toolbars are used for specific functionality in publisher.

Showing a Toolbar

• From the main menu, select View > Toolbars. 

• Select the toolbar you want to display (you will see a check mark beside the toolbar when it is visible)

Hiding a Toombar

• From the main menu, select View Toolbars.

• Select the toolbar you want to hide (you will not see a check mark beside toolbar when it is hidden).

Moving a Toolbar

• Place your mouse over the dotted vertical line at the left side of the toolbar. Your mouse cursor must change to the Move cursor.

• Click and drag toolbar to where you want to move it.

Using the Standard Toolbar

The Standard toolbar provides quick access to commonly used actions. Each action is represented by a button. When you move your mouse pointer over a button, it is highlighted in blue and a descriptive tool tip appears, click the action/button you want to use. Publisher 2003 contains two enhanced Standard toolbar buttons: Research and Send This page as a Message.

The following are buttons on the Standard toolbar:

• New - Create a new publication
• Open - Open a publication
• Save - Save the publication
• Send Thus page a Message - E-mail the publication
• Print -  Print a publication
• Print preview - Preview the publication
• Spelling - Check spelling
• Research - Display the Research Task pane
• Cut - Cut selected text or objects 
• Copy - Copy selected text or objects

e-Government 

e-Government (from electronic government, also known as e-gov, digital government, online government or in a certain context transformational government) refers to the use of Internet technology as a platform for exchanging information, providing services and transacting with citizens, business. and other arms of government. e-Government at be applied by the legislature, judiciary, or administration, in order to improve internal efficiency, the delivery of public services, or processes of democratic governance. The primary delivery models are Government - to- Citizen or Government-to-Customer (GzC) & Government - to - Business (G2B) and Government - to - Government (G2G) & Government -to- Employees (G2E).

Within each of these interaction domains, four kind of activities take place

• Pushing information Over the Internet, e.g: regulatory services, general holidays, public hearing schedules, issue briefs, notifications, etc.
• Two-way communications between the agency and the citizen, a business, or another government agency. In this model, users can engage in dialogue with agencies and post problems, comments, or requests to the agency.
• Conducting transactions, e.g: lodging tax returns, applying for service and grants.
• Governance, e.g: online polling, voting, and campaigning.

The most important anticipated benefits of e-government include more efficiency, improved services, better accessibility of public services, and more transparency and accountability.

While e-government is often thought of as "online government" or "Internet-based government," many non-Internet "electronic government" technologies can be used in this context, Some non-Internet forms include telephone, fax, PDA, SMS text messaging, MMS, wireless networks and services, Bluetooth, CCTV, tracking systems, RFID, biometric identification, road management and regulatory enforcement, identity cards, smart cards and other NFC applications; polling station technology (where non-online e-voting is being considered), TV and radio-based delivery of government services, email, online community facilities, newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, online chat, and instant messaging technologies. There are also some technology-specific sub-categories of e-government, such as m-government (mobile government), u-government (ubiquitous government), and g-government (GIS/GPS applications for e-government). There are many considerations and potential implications of implementating and designing e-government, including disintermediation of the government and its citizens, impacts on economic, social, and political factors, and disturbance to the status quo in these areas.

UN e-Government Readiness index

The following is a list of the top 50 countries according to the 2008 e-Government Deadness index. It is a comparative ranking of the countries of the world according to two primary indicators: I) the state of e-government readiness; and ii) the extent of e-participation. Construction a model for the measurement of digitized services, the survey assesses the 191 member states of the UN according to a quantitative composite index of e-government readiness based on website assessment; telecommunication infrastructure and human resource endowment

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE

Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or ecommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. The amount of trade conducted electronically has grown extraordinary since the spread of the Internet. A wide variety of commerce is conducted in this way, spurring and drawing on innovations in electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the world wide web encompass a wider range of technologies such as e+mail as well. 

        A large percentage of electronic commerce is conducted entirely electronically for virtual items such as access tobpremium content on a website, but most electronic Commerce involves the transportation of physical items in some way. Online retailers are sometimes known as e-tailers and online retail is sometimes known as e-tail. Almost all bug retailers have electronic commerce presence on the world wide web.

Electronic commerce that is between businesses is referred to as business-to-business or B2B can be open to all interested parties (e.g commodity exchange) or limited to specific, pre-qualified participants (private electronic market). Electronic commerce that is conducted between businesses and consumers, on the other hand, is referred to as business-to-consumer or B2C. This is type of electronic commerce conducted by companies such as Amazon.com.

History 

Early development

The meaning of electronic commerce has changed over the last 30 years originally, electronic commerce meant the facilitation of commercial transactions electronically, using technology such as Electronic Data interchange (EDI) and Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT). these were both introduced in the late 1970s, allowing businesses to send commercial document like purchase orders or invoice electronically. The growth and acceptance of credit cards, automated teller machines (ATM) and telephone banking in the 1980s were also forms of electronic commerce. Another form of e-commerce was the airline reservation system typified by Sabre in the USA and Travicom in he UK. Online Shopping was invented in the UK  in 1979 by Michael Aldrich and during the 2980s it was use extensively particularly by auto manufacturers such as Ford, Peugeot-Talbot, General Motors and Nissan. From the 1990s onwards, electronic commerce would additionally include enterprise resource planning system (ERP), data mining and data warehousing,

Perhaps the introduced from the Telephone Exchange Office, or maybe not. The earlier example of many-to-many electronic commerce in physical goods was the Boston Computer Exchange, a marketplace for used computers launched in 1982. The first online information marketplace, including online consulting, was likely the American information Exchange, another ore-Internet online system introduced in 1991.

Although the Internet became popular worldwide in 1994, it took about five years to introduce security protocols and DSL allowing continual connection to the Internet. And BH the end 2000, a lot of European and American business companies offered their services through the world wide web. Since then people began to associate a word "ecommerce" with the ability of purchasing various goods through the Internet using secure protocols and electronic payment service

Buness application.

Some common application related to electronic commerce arz the following:

• Email
• Enterprise content management
• Instant messaging
• Newsgroups
• Online.shopping and order tracking
• Online banking 
• Online office suites
• Domestic office international payment systems 
• Shopping cart software
• Telecomferencing
• Electronic tickets.

Forms 

Contemporary electronic commerce involves everything from ordering 'digital" content't for immediate online consumption, to ordering conventional goods and services, to "meta" services to facilitate other types of electronic commerce.

On the consumer level, electronic commerce is mostly conducted on the world wide web. An individual can go online to purchase anything from books or groceries, to expensive items like real estate. Another example would be online banking, I.e. online bill payments, buying stocks, transferring funds from one account to another, and initiating wire payment to another country. All of these activities can be done with a few strokes of the keyboard.

On the institutional level, big corporations and financial instructions use the Internet to exchange financial data to facilitate domestic and international business. Data integrity and security are very hit and pressing issues for electronic commerce today.