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KWord

Although a word processor, KWord is frame-based, so can also perform light layout duties, similar to a desktop publishing application.

- a huge collection of calendars with a broad range of topics

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KWord Tutorial - First Layout Project

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This layout was produced for use in a charity plant sale. Learn the techniques and you can use them for many purposes. You can save and reuse these images for practice. Click on the picture to get the full size one.

In this lesson you will

add text boxes and adjust their size and position
format text
add illustrations
adjust their size and position

Launch KWord and select the Blank Document template. You will be presented with an empty page, with the size most likely for your region - usually A4 or Letter. Using the Format Menu, select Page Layout. For this project I am using A4, but it shouldn't take much adjustment to fit it to a Letter page.

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The default page already has a basic text frame, covering the whole of the usable page. If at any time you can't reach a frame to work with it, click on an empty part of the page and you should see the frame highlighted. From the Frames menut, Send to Back, so that it's behind your working frames.

For this kind of layout you need fairly generous margins, so set the top to 25mm and the other three sides to 20mm. If you work in Imperial, make them 1" at the top and 3/4" on the other sides.

In the right-hand toolbox, under Add Shape, click on Text and draw a box margin to margin and 3cm (about 1.25") high - you can see your cursor position on the ruler at the left. The result will be a coloured box, but that is just a marker. You get a Frameset dialog. This is going to be our banner heading, so you can change its name if yoiu wish, but you won't need to change anything else. Click and the text box fills with sample text. Now Click on the 'T' text editing tool - the sample text disappears and you can add your heading. I used URW Chancery L, 48pt for the title and 24pt for the subheading. Highlight both lines of text and click on to centre it. Create another text box, margin to margin, and 1.5cm deep, and add the sub-text:

This plant gets its unfortunate name because many people think that the flowers develop a strong smell if taken into a warm room

That's the heading all sorted. Now we need to look at illustrating our page. Many cameras use a 4:3 format, so we will use Image frames that are 8cm x 6 cm.

Create your first box touching the left-hand margin, just below your text box. Drag it as close as you can to the desired size - it can be tweaked later. Like the text box it creates a coloured box, then it opens a dialog for you to point it to the desired picture. We will select Hellebore1.jpg for this picture.

Repeat the process, creating this image box immediately below, and just touching the bottom margin. Select the file Hellebore3.jgp.

The third image box should be the same size, touching the right margin, and positioned vertically as close as you can to half-way between the other two. Select the file Hellebore2.jpg

Now we need to tweak the position, to get them exactly where we want them.

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 |[[Image:Hellebore.png|thumb|265px|A First Layout Project]]|| This layout was produced for use in a charity plant sale.  Learn the techniques and you can use them for many purposes.  You can save and reuse these images for practice.  Click on the picture to get the full size one.
 |}
+In this lesson you will
+::* add text boxes and adjust their size and position
+::* format text
+::* add illustrations
+::* adjust their size and position
 Launch KWord and select the Blank Document template.  You will be presented with an empty page, with the size most likely for your region - usually A4 or Letter.  Using the Format Menu, select Page Layout.  For this project I am using A4, but it shouldn't take much adjustment to fit it to a Letter page.
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 |}
-That's the heading all sorted.  Now we need to look at illustrating our page.  Many camers use a 4:3 format, so we will use Image frames that are 8cm x 6 cm.
+That's the heading all sorted.  Now we need to look at illustrating our page.  Many cameras use a 4:3 format, so we will use Image frames that are 8cm x 6 cm.
 {|
 |[[Image:Hellebore1.jpg|thumb|100px]]||Create your first box touching the left-hand margin, just below your text box.  Drag it as close as you can to the desired size - it can be tweaked later.  Like the text box it creates a coloured box, then it opens a dialog for you to point it to the desired picture.  We will select Hellebore1.jpg for this picture.
 |}
+{|
+|[[Image:Hellebore3.jpg|thumb|100px]]||Repeat the process, creating this image box immediately below, and just touching the bottom margin.  Select the file Hellebore3.jgp.
+|}
+{|
+|The third image box should be the same size, touching the right margin, and positioned vertically as close as you can to half-way between the other two.  Select the file Hellebore2.jpg||[[Image:Hellebore2.jpg|thumb|100px]]
+|}
+Now we need to tweak the position, to get them exactly where we want them.