In this first Word project for your CSCI 1100 portfolio, you will create a brochure for use in your future job, or current organization or business.

You can use MS Word and its ability to do multiple column text to brochures or newsletters that can be used to communicate with students, parents, administrators, clients, colleagues, volunteers, prospects, etc. 

Your assignment is to create a brochure for a business, product, topic, organization, classroom, person, place, or thing.

Your finished product must be creative, well-designed, and free of spelling and grammar errors – this end result should be ready for use in business, health, education, marketing, campaigning, etc.

From Word, open a NEW document.

From FILE, select Page Setup, Paper Size, and choose "Landscape". Select Margins and choose appropriate size margins (.5" or more). From the toolbar select the column icon and select three-column form. From Format, choose Columns and set appropriate column spacing (1" or less). From the formatting bar (below the tool bar) select Comic Sans to replace Times New Roman, select 12 or 14 for the font size.

Include each of the following:

• Business/organization/personal information
• A brief welcome/introduction to the topic of the brochure;
• At least three clipart pictures/WordArt graphics;
• At least two Web graphics
• A bulleted list and/or numbered list
• At least two bordered and shaded sections, at least one with a pattern
• At least one table

Be sure to center some items (such as your title and/or section headings). Use color and graphics to add eye-appeal and emphasis to your work - you may print your brochure in color or black and white, but your web version should have color.

You will turn in a PRINTED brochure as well as save a copy in your P:\web\cs1100 folder to link from your CS1100 home page.

The two-sided brochure is the style most commonly seen in business and professional settings. While slightly more effort is required to produce the two-sided tri-fold brochure, it makes a decidedly professional impact in almost any setting. And, once you create a brochure, you can reuse it as a template for future ones.

The inside of the two-sided tri-fold brochure is similar to the regular accordion style. All three columns go in order from left to right when the brochure is opened completely:

The outside of the brochure is the part that requires the most thought. Since the brochure will be folded with an inside and outside flap, the layout begins with the inside flap (good place for quick information the reader will see upon first opening the brochure) on the left, the back panel (usually blank or reserved for mailing use) in the middle, and the front flap (title panel) in the right column, as shown below: