Joe Habraken is a freelance writer and has serve as an author, editor, curriculum designer, and software instructor during his career as a computer technology Professional. Joe earned his MA in Communications from American University in Washington, D.C. Most recently he has written the Complete Idiots Guide to Access 97 and The Big Basics Book of the Internet, 2nd Edition.

I. GETTING STARTED WITH PUBLISHER 2000. 1. Starting Publisher. 2. Editing Your Personal Information. 3. Starting a New Publication with a Wizard. 4. Creating Publications with a Unified Design. 5. Creating a Blank Publication. 6. Understanding the Publisher Work Area. 7. Working with Menus. 8. Working with Toolbars. 9. Taking Advantage of Shortcut Menus. 10. Getting Help from the Office Assistant. 11. Getting Help Using the Help System. 12. Getting Help on Dialog Box Items. 13. Exiting Publisher. II. MANAGING PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING WITH PAGES. 1. Saving a Publication. 2. Opening a Publication. 3. Adding Pages to a Publication. 4. Deleting a Page. 5. Changing the View. 6. Zooming In and Out. 7. Moving on and Between Pages. 8. Setting Ruler and Grid Guides. 9. Using Snap to It. 10. Setting Page Margins. 11. Working in the Background 12. Creating Headers and Footers. 13. Inserting Page Numbers. 14. Adding the Date. III. CHANGING HOW TEXT LOOKS. 1. Adding and Editing Text. 2. Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Text. 3. Choosing Fonts. 4. Changing Font Size. 5. Formatting Characters. 6. Changing Text Color. 7. Creating Drop Caps. 8. Centering and Aligning Text. 9. Setting Indents. 10. Setting Tabs. 11. Setting Line Spacing. 12. Creating Text Styles. 13. Applying Styles. 14. Using the Format Painter. 15. Creating Bulleted Lists. 16. Creating Numbered Lists. 17. Using WordArt. 18. Inserting Personal Information. IV. WORKING WITH PICTURES AND CLIP ART. 1. Inserting Pictures. 2. Inserting Clip Art. 3. Inserting an Image from a Scanner or Camera. 4. Deleting Pictures. 5. Resizing a Picture. 6. Cropping a Picture. 7. Changing Picture Colors. 8. Pasting a Picture into a Publication. 9. Adding Captions. 10. Drawing with Microsoft Draw. V. WORKING WITH FRAMES. 1. Creating a Frame. 2. Moving a Frame. 3. Nudging a Frame. 4. Deleting a Frame. 5. Copying a Frame. 6. Sizing a Frame. 7. Changing Frame Borders. 8. Applying Shading to Frames. 9. Working with Border Colors. 10. Working with Frame Fills. 11. Grouping Frames. 12. Wrapping Text Around Frames. VI. ADDING AND FORMATTING OBJECTS. 1. Using the Design Gallery. 2. Editing a Smart Object. 3. Inserting Drawn Objects. 4. Resizing Objects. 5. Moving an Object. 6. Centering Objects. 7. Rotating and Flipping Objects. 8. Setting Object Border Colors. 9. Setting Object Fill Colors. 10. Layering Objects. 11. Grouping Objects. 12. Using Snap to Objects. 13. Inserting Video or Sound Objects. 14. Inserting Objects from Other Applications. VII. WORKING WITH TABLES. 1. Creating a Table. 2. Moving a Table. 3. Resizing a Table. 4. Resizing Table Columns. 5. Resizing Table Rows. 6. Inserting Rows. 7. Inserting Columns. 8. Removing Rows. 9. Removing Columns. 10. Dividing Cells on the Diagonal. 11. Merging Table Cells. 12. Entering Text in a Table. 13. Using the Table AutoFormat. 14. Manually Adding Colors and Borders to a Table. VIII. ENHANCING AND PRINTING YOUR PUBLICATIONS. 1. Using Color Schemes. 2. Using the Spelling Feature. 3. Using the Design Checker. 4. Working with Hyphenation. 5. Using Color Matching. 6. Printing the Publication. 7. Using the Print Troubleshooter. 8. Using Pack and Go. 9. Using the Commercial Printing Tools.