software that helps you make documents such as cards, posters or certificates

British English CC

Editing text

Computing

Using text and images to communicate

Placeholders in templates

Adding content

Applying layout in desktop publishing

Editing and improving a document

In this unit pupils will explore how text and images can be used to communicate messages. They will use desktop publishing software to make careful choices of font size, colour, and style to improve documents. They explore a range of page layouts using templates and placeholders as design tools.

Desktop publishing

Which term describes the style and appearance of letters in a document?

software for making documents like posters

features like size, colour, or style of text

What is a good reason to change the colour of text?

choose your desired font style, size, or colour

Put these steps in the correct order for changing the appearance of text in a desktop publishing document:

Why is it important to use suitable fonts in desktop publishing?

What do we call written words used to pass on a message?

What is one way a message can be communicated?

Why might using only text make a message harder to understand quickly?

What can images sometimes lack compared to text?

What is an example of an image that is used to communicate?

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