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Welcome!

Thanks for buying  Eye-catching signs with Word – our latest e-book.

Why use Word for Signs?

Well, why not use Word?  You have Microsoft Word already so there’s no point in paying money for another program if you don’t need it.  On top of that you’ll have to learn how to use the new program. 

Word documents are well known around the world, and you can email a sign to someone else knowing that the receiver will very likely be able to open and use it without any trouble. 

We’ve written this e-book for people who have Word and have the occasional need to make a sign for home or work. 

I got the idea for this e-book when I was walking around town and saw so many boring and ineffective signs, almost certainly made in Word.  You’ve probably seen them yourself:

Just Arial font, bold, large and centered.    

So bland that most people would not even notice it, let alone read and heed it. 

After reading this e-book you’ll be able to convert that sign into this:

The same words with better formatting and we've fixed the grammar error marked by Word with the green squiggly line.

That’s all done in Word as you get it from Microsoft – no fancy extras required – we’ll show you how to do that and more.

What’s inside

First we’ll take you step-by-step through making a simple but effective sign in Word – from a blank page to finished sign.  You’ll discover some of the great formatting tricks that the experts use in Word. 

There’s an entire chapter on fonts, useful effects to change the look of the fonts you have, suggested free fonts to make your signs look different and some recommendations for pairs of fonts that work together for heading and subtext of a sign.  We have advice on getting interesting fonts, how to choose them for your purpose, how to change the look of a font in Word, and which fonts to avoid on signs. 

We’ll share some powerful tips to help you make your signs faster and look better.

All these tips are focused on helping you make great signage.  As always we don’t just provide software tips in isolation but give you overall design advice so you can make informed decisions in real situations.   We figure that you want to make good signs that will get their message across – not make signs that are unreadable but prove how clever the sign-maker is in Word. 

There’s advice on:

• The paper to choose for the best effect.
• Suitable color combinations – which colors work together or the best effect.
• Suitable color combinations – which colors work together
• Easy to find symbols you already have on your computer
• A source of hundreds of simple graphics that you probably have on your computer but don’t realize it.
• When to choose Portrait or Landscape page orientation
• Simple ways to make really big signs and smaller signs
• A full guide to Page Borders in Word including a complete gallery of the 164 borders in Word 2003 and Word 2007.
• Two ready to use examples of the popular ‘pull off tag’ signs which have little slips of paper at the bottom that people can tear off and take with them.

Sign Gallery

We know that time is precious, so this ebook includes many signs that are ready for you to print out and use. 

The Sign Gallery is a collection of pre-made signs as Word documents ready for you to edit and use yourself.  They’ll give you a massive head start in making many types of signs – you might not have to do anything at all, just print it out! 

Yes, the Sign Gallery includes the ‘tradesmen’ example shown above plus the completed version of the ‘step-by-step’ beginners sign. 

Of course, if you make a lot of signage or do it professionally then a more specialized design program,  such as Microsoft Publisher, is worth the investment.

Ebook power

Because this is an electronic book you have options you don’t have with dead tree (paper) publications. 

Since this is an Adobe Acrobat book you can navigate using the bookmarks pane on the left to jump around the e-book, it’s a more convenient and faster version of the traditional table of contents (but we’ve still included a TOC below). 

Searching.  Use the Find or Search commands (under the Edit menu) in the Acrobat Reader to quickly locate what you need.

Searching.  Naturally this handbook can be indexed and searched by any Desktop Searching program that indexes the content of PDF files. Just save it to a folder that is indexed and the Desktop Searching program should do the rest.   There’s lots more detail about this in our Desktop Search Handbook.

Bookmarks.  Choose View | Navigation Tabs | Bookmarks to see a tree view of the headings in the handbook. Click on any heading to jump to that section.

Updates.  Unlike a paper book, registered purchasers get free updates to the entire book. As new and upgraded programs appear we’ll update the handbook. We’ll let you know via Office Watch newsletters during 2006.

Comments.  You can add your own comments and notes to an ebook – see the Comments menu in Acrobat Reader.

Attachments.  PDF files can contain documents within them for you to save onto your computer – much in the same way that email messages can have file attachments.  Using this feature we can give you examples to try and use anyway you’d like.  Choose View | Navigation Tabs | Attachments.

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Eye-catching Signs with Word (ISBN 0-9757363-2-9) - by Peter Deegan and Maryjane Almer - enquiries about our ebooks or ordering can be emailed to  ebookshopmanager at office-watch.com

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