Skills inventory for Publisher 2003: Basic

Use the following form to gauge students’ skill level entering the class (students have copies in the introductions of their student manuals). For each skill listed, have students rate their familiarity from 1 to 5, with five being the most familiar. Emphasize that this is not a test. Rather, it’s intended to provide students with an idea of where they’re starting from at the beginning of class. If a student is wholly unfamiliar with all the skills, he or she might not be ready for the class. A student who seems to understand every skill, on the other hand, might need to move on to the next course in the series.

 

Skill

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2

3

4

5

Opening a publication

 

 

 

 

 

Navigating a publication and zooming in and out

 

 

 

 

 

Getting Help

 

 

 

 

 

Closing files and closing Publisher

 

 

 

 

 

Creating, saving, and editing text in a publication

 

 

 

 

 

Modifying the page setup

 

 

 

 

 

Deleting, inserting, moving, and scaling pictures

 

 

 

 

 

Working with clip art

 

 

 

 

 

Creating and deleting text frames

 

 

 

 

 

Resizing, modifying, and linking text frames

 

 

 

 

 

Formatting text

 

 

 

 

 

Creating a text style and modifying paragraph properties

 

 

 

 

 

Checking spelling and replacing text automatically

 

 

 

 

 

Creating a multipage publication and adding pages to it

 

 

 

 

 

Working with master pages

 

 

 

 

 

Importing text from another publication

 

 

 

 

 

Inserting and modifying AutoShape objects

 

 

 

 

 

Cropping, rotating, and wrapping text around a picture

 

 

 

 

 

Creating a WordArt object

 

 

 

 

 

Optimizing a WordArt object

 

 

 

 

 

Creating and entering text in a table

 

 

 

 

 

Inserting and deleting rows and columns

 

 

 

 

 

Formatting tables

 

 

 

 

 

Printing a publication

 

 

 

 

 

Using the Pack and Go Wizard