How to Use Microsoft Word 2007 to Do Desktop Publishing

1. Edit your text in its own Word document. (This is very important if you want to re-use text among multiple documents). Apply any formatting in the original document, and name each style (using Word's style management tools) in the original document.
2. Create a new Word document.
3. Click on the 'Page Layout' tab. The page layout tools will be displayed.
4. Click on the 'Margins' tool, and select 'Custom Margins' from the bottom of the menu. This will bring up a floating dialog box where you can set the left, right, top and bottom margins for each page. You can also set 'Mirror Margins,' where the margin at the inside of the page (closer to the binding) is different from the outside margin.
5. Click on the 'Columns' tool and select the number of columns desired from the menu that comes up. By selecting 'More Options' at the bottom of that menu, you can get more control over the width of the margins; one of the margin options allows you to have margins of uneven width, which can be useful for a number of layout choices.
6. Click on the 'Page Borders' tool and decide if your layout needs a page border or other text highlighting. This is useful when setting up an advertising circular.
7. Click on the 'Insert' tab, to show the other commonly used page layout tools; the ones we'll be using at the moment are the header and footer; these will shift your view on the document to show the top and bottom of each page, and are where you can put information that repeats on each page -- your company name, a copyright notice, and similar. You can also insert an automatically updated page number in this space. Once you're done with inserting the header and footer, select 'Done'. You'll be back to the normal editing view.
8. Click on the document with your original text, and enter 'Ctrl-A' to select all of it, then 'Ctrl-C' to copy it. Switch back to the document with the prepared layout, and press 'Ctrl-V' to paste the text with all the formatting you'd done on it before. The text will flow through your document along the columns you set.
9. Click on the 'Page Layout' tab again, and scroll through your document, one page at a time. Whenever you want to adjust where text jumps to the next page, click on the 'Breaks' tool and insert either a column break (if you want the text to flow to a different column) or a page break (if you want the text to flow to the next page).
10. Click on the 'Insert' tab, and scroll to the first page of the document; scroll through each page, and in the spaces created by inserting page breaks and column breaks, use the tools in this tab (Insert Picture, Insert Clip Art, Insert Chart, Insert Shapes...) to insert graphical elements that reinforce and illustrate what the adjacent text flow says.