How to Make Postcards in Microsoft Publisher Microsoft Publisher is a feature of Microsoft Office that you can use to produce many professional documents, including fliers, brochures and postcards. Microsoft Publisher offers a number of templates to help make your job easier. Choose one of its templates to make postcards for your business or organization to keep your customers up to date or to attract new customers.
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1 Open Microsoft Publisher. Go to the "New Publication" task pane, and choose "Publications for Print" and then "Postcards." In Microsoft Publisher 2002, you can choose "Postcards" directly from the "New Publication" task pane.
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2 Choose the type of postcard template you want to use based on your needs. Informational, sale and special offer are a few of your choices. Click the design you want from the right side of the screen once you select the type of postcard.
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3 Under "Size" in the "Postcard Options" task pane, select "Quarter-page." (You cannot use this size for some postcard styles.)
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4 Display the second side of your postcard by using the page navigation control at the bottom of the window. Go to "Side 2 Information" and choose how you want to organize the information on the second side.
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5 Go to "Copies per sheet" and choose "Multiple." This will print four postcards on one page.
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Go back to the first side of your postcard using the page navigation controls. Choose the color scheme you want for your postcard by selecting "Color Schemes" from the "Postcard Options" task pane. Select "Font Schemes" to choose the font scheme you want as well. o
7 Insert the text you want on your postcard over the placeholder text. You can adjust the font size if needed. If you already have a personal information set created in Publisher, your information will automatically appear on the postcard.
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8 Click "Print Preview" to view your postcard before printing.
Tips & Warnings
You can use a "Print Merge" in Microsoft Publisher to automatically print addresses on your postcards if you already have addresses saved in a database. Practice printing on some test sheets of paper to ensure your postcard prints the way you want. Postcards print best on a printer that supports duplex printing. If your printer doesn't support duplex printing, create a Publisher file for each side of the postcard, and reinsert the paper to print the second side.
More Resources
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