This week in EDTF300 I learned so much about using Word Publisher. I don’t think I’ve ever used the program before. Usually I would just copy and paste pictures and text into a word document. I also learned a lot about excel and how to sharpen my skills. I’ve used excel a bunch but I never had to use MailMerger, this will be a good thing to know for the future.
In Publisher I was taught by both my professor and by my classmates on how to efficiently make a poster. As a team we created a poster about the upcoming sporting events over homecoming weekend. Over the weekend there is a football game , men’s and women’s soccer games, and a swimming quad-meet. If the class decides to choose our poster to blow up to poster size, I think it would be useful to hang up on campus. This will be a good marketing tool for the sports teams. The poster has the time and location of the event so it is easy to understand. My group also made the decision to insert attention grabbers in each corner. I never even knew publisher had those pictures that you could customize! One group member even had the good idea of making a pie chart about the average attendance of each sports team. Maybe this will show fans that some teams need more support than others. To create this pie chart we went into excel and made a chart with the sports teams across the top and below each one the number of fans in attendance. Then I selected that chart and clicked insert pie chart. This is a useful object but it was very simple to make!
We also then learned how to use MailMerger, which is something I’ve never even heard of before. This was a difficult thing to use for me, but with more practice I will master it. I wrote up a fake letter to people who donated to a cause. With this letter, I merged a database that was created in excel. It was a hard task but I got it accomplished.
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