How do I Type Church Newsletters?
Church newsletters keep parishioners informed of news and events. Use a word processing program to create a newsletter on your computer. Make it informative and eye-catching using photos and pictures.
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Instructions
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Gather information from your pastor and fellow church members. Set a deadline for receiving content. For example, announce that you must have all newsletter submissions by the Wednesday before the first Sunday of each month. Your newsletter might include a letter from your pastor in addition to birth and death announcements, a prayer list, a calendar of events, committee reports and attendance numbers. Adjust articles or content as needed.
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Sketch the layout for your newsletter on a piece of paper with a pencil. Use a boxed layout to give the letter a look of segmented areas of different sizes. Draw a long narrow box at the top for the newsletter title and three narrow boxes underneath for the church name, pastor's name and date. Draw one wide and two narrow boxes underneath those that are two inches tall each. Sketch more boxes of different sizes as desired for the layout. Write the subject titles into each box. This is your road map for recreating the newsletter on your computer.
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Open Word on your computer, and click on "new document."
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Insert a table that has three columns and three rows. Go to "table" at the top of your screen. Click "insert," then "table." Choose the number of columns and rows, and click "OK." The table will appear on your document.
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Click your mouse on the last box to the left to add rows as you need them. Hold down your mouse and drag it over the row until all are highlighted. On the menu bar at the top, select "table," then "insert." Select rows above or rows below. The blank row is for adding additional information.
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Merge the top three cells for the title by clicking on the top left box, holding down and dragging across the three cells to highlight. Right click and high merge. They are now one cell. Type in your newsletter title. Then click on the second line that has three cells. Put your church name in one cell, your pastor's name in another and the date in the other.
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Click on the third line, left box. Hold down and highlight the left two boxes in that row. Right click and click to merge cells. This is how you make boxes different sizes on the right or the left to give the newsletter interest. Enter text in the left box. As you type, the cell will grow larger.
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Ad art for interest. Click on the box where you want the picture to go. Click on "insert" at the menu bar, select the picture and the location of the picture, then click "insert"; the picture will be in the box. To re-size it, click on the picture. Four corners now surround it. Click and hold on one corner. Drag the corner toward the center of the picture until it is re-sized. Let go. To move the picture, click on it and drag it within the cell or to another cell.
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Change the font type and size. To change the font, click in a box of text, hold down the cursor and highlight the text. On the menu, click on "font size" and choose the new size. Click on "font type" in the menu and choose that also. Change the text as much as you want for different looks.
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Tips & Warnings
Put pictures into separate cells from the text. Pictures within text cells cause the text to separate.
References
- Photo Credit bulletin image by martin schmid from Fotolia.com
