How to Make a Brochure in Publisher – Useful Tools and Tips

Microsoft Publisher is an editing application, its main use is create and design content for print or online publication. It is very easy to create a brochure with Publisher, thanks to predesigned templates or created from scratch by you and all the tools it provides.

How can I create a brochure to design my tri-fold brochure in Publisher?

First you must download and install Office 365 if it is not installed. The easiest way to make a brochure is use a predesigned template, since it facilitates the editing process, however you can make your own templates.

Brochure creation

1. Open the Publisher application from your pc.
2. Select the horizontally shaped sheet that says “Blank 11x 8.5pda.”
3. Click on the “Page Layout” tab
4. To put the guides of a triptych click on the margins option and then click on “custom margins”
5. Then you must click on the “Grid Guides” tab and the column section places the n ° 3 and in the row section it places n ° 1, if you want to remove the margins you can do it by clicking on margins and selecting the “None” option.

Change of design

1. Click on “Page Layout” and then click “Change Template.”
2. Then click on the tab that says “Main Page”
3. Select the option that says “Brochures”
4. Then you can choose between the predesigned designs that Publisher has, you just have to select the most you like and click accept and then start designing your triptych.
5. If you wish replace the text or some graphic of the template, just click the right button of the text box or graphic and then click on “Delete text” or “Change image”.

What Publisher tools can we use to personalize our brochure?

Once you have predefined the page layout of your triptych, it’s time to design and customize the content of your triptych: to do this go to the “Insert” tab where you will find all tools necessary.

1. If you select the option “Edges and accents” you will find some patterns that you can use.
2. If you want to add ads select the option “Advertisements” where you will find some pre-designed designs.
3. You can also find more options by selecting “Page elements” There is a wide variety of designs to insert into your triptych, if you click you will have the options to insert articles, sidebars, quotes and titles, where you can choose the one you want, select it and it will be inserted in your triptych, in addition, you will be able to find many more if you click on “More page layouts”.

Where can I find templates to use in my Publisher brochure?

1. Enter the Publisher application
2. Go to the office search bar and place “Brochure” and you will be able to choose any of the predesigned templates that Publisher has, just click on the one you like the most and then click on accept to open the template. If you want to go back to the home page, just click “File” and then “New.”
3. Another option to find templates is by clicking on “New”
4. Then click where it says “Integrated”.
5. Select the “Brochures” option and then click on a template from the category that best suits you.
6. When you open a template, you will see options to change the template’s colors, fonts, text, and graphics.

What other platforms can I use to make brochures online?

One of the most used online platforms for making triptychs is Canva, because you can design incredible brochures and it also offers a wide variety of predesigned templates. You can also use other platforms, such as the following:

1. Adobe online.
2. Crello.
3. Venngage.
4. Visme.
5. Print online.

Word

1. Open a new Word document.
2. To change the page orientation to landscape, click the “Layout” tab and select “Direction,” and then click “Landscape.”
3. In the tab “Page layout”, click on “Margins” and you can customize the margins.
4. To divide a Microsoft Word sheet into three columns, click on the “Format” tab and then click on “Columns” and enter # 3.
5. Then start adding content you want to your brochure.
6. Remember that you must create two pages, one for the outside and one for the inside of your triptych.

PowerPoint

To make or create a good triptych, diptych or brochure in PowerPoint you can use the predesigned templates that the application already has, or you can do it manually, for this you must follow the following steps:

1. Open PowerPoint and select a blank template.
2. Then click on the ‘Insert’ tab and select a table with three columns and one row.
3. Duplicate the slide to make the inside and outside of the triptych.
4. Edit the brochure and customize it by adding images and graphics.