In Australia we tend to use A4 size paper (21 x 29.7 cm) but you can set the page to any size you like, such as A3, US Letter, postcard size… whatever you’d like to work on. From the drop-down menu change to Custom and then enter the size of the page you’d like to work on.
Then go to the File menu and choose Page Setup. Here’s how.įirst create a new Google Slides presentation. What? Google Slides? Yep, all you need to do is change the page format and treat it as a publishing tool instead of a presentation tool. One option that surprises many people is that you can do some pretty credible desktop publishing using Google Slides.
From the consumer-level Microsoft Publisher, through to the professional publishing powerhouse that is Adobe InDesign, there are many excellent options for page layout these days. Since that time, there have been many great tools for creating page layouts. If you remember those days, the ability to do page layout on a computer, mostly thanks to the invention of the Mac and the laser printer, was an absolute revolution at the time. When I changed schools, I was given the job of making the school yearbook, so naturally I completely changed the old manual processes and replaced it with desktop publishing on a computer using Aldus Pagemaker. I found it incredibly rewarding to apply my sense of design and creativity (I was an art teacher after all) to doing page layout with a computer. Before I got involved, it was literally a cut and paste job, but I tried using a computer and an early desktop publishing program and I was hooked. I originally learned to do desktop publishing for a club I belonged to, where I somehow got the job of putting together their monthly newsletter. The ability to use a computer to lay out a page with text, images and graphics, arranging it to look good and tell a story. But as computers got better and more useful, the killer application became desktop publishing. My first introduction to computers was learning programming, back in the mid 80s.
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