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I purchased 100 extra blank sheets of our invitation card stock from Creative Montage for my DIY printing projects, and started with our wedding menus.

I have never used Microsoft Publisher before, but my fiance and I worked together (which usually on a computer is a challenge, as we think differently in our order of operations) and I think they came out really well.

Here is a print screen of the publisher file:

Here is a picture of a test print (changed a little of the wording/spacing etc.):

Close-up:

Publisher How To:

I would say publisher is fairly simple and intuitive if you are familiar with the Microsoft Suite. Here are some basic instructions if you want to do this yourself.

1) I typed and formatted the menu text in Microsoft Word

2) Created a text box in publisher and sized it to fit two side by side with equal space on all sides.

3) Inserted an image (our monogram from Creative Montage. They are only 5 for $15 so check it out!) by clicking “Insert” and then “picture” and placed it at the top of the text box.

4) Pasted the text from the word document and it fit pretty perfectly! Just lucky, I guess.

5) Did a quick select all and centered the text.

6) Added a border by clicking on line/boarder style on the tool bar (3/4
inch).

7) I then selected all the text + the border and changed the color to match our monogram exactly. Note: I used Adobe photoshop to get an exact color match, but you could eyeball it I guess.

I did a “select all” and copied then pasted and dragged the exact match over to the right hand side of the page.

DOWNLOAD the Publisher file for this menu here.

Publisher is great for things like this because it does this thing that I started calling “click and lock” although I have no idea if it has a real name. If you click and drag a text box it will “click and lock” to the margins you established (ours are .25 all the way around) so it fits perfectly and you’re not worried if it will line up.

I look forward to making our wedding programs with Publisher too. I wish I’d discovered this program before I designed our “out of town” guest booklets in Word, but live and learn! We’ll have to buy a few packages of ink for our printer before we’re ready to print all of these, but well worth it I think.