Windows spreading the news More than any other time of year, this is the time of the year when we feel most obliged to catch up with friends and family and fill them in on the events of the previous year. But *ith all the presents to be . wrapped and decorations to be hung, we simply don't have time for a lengthy phone conversation with everyone that we'd like.
It's the sort ofthing you either love or loathe, but it's an invaluable tool for the time-pressured who want to keep distant friends up to date, which is why we suggest acknowledging the naffness and creating a newsletter full of good cheer and poor jokes.
You can print the resulting newsletter on your home printer. All in all, it's a cheaper way of showing you care than a bottle of wine or pair of novelty socks. Producing a newsletter is more personal than a hastily composed email. As anyone who's received such an email can attest, good cheer can be in short supply.
In their defence, emails are the greenest way of sending a greeting. If the electronic route appeals, we recomŽmend emailing a POP of your newsletter, rather than printing it out and posting it with the Christmas cards.
Talking of which, we've also had a go at designing our own personalised Christmas cards. This can be achieved with an inexpensive desktop publisher, or with Print Perfect Deluxe.
Such tasks can be accomplished in Word, but DTP software offers ease of use and visual control. And while designing a newsletter may be a cheesy first project, it's a good introduction to home publishing. The tips we outline here will give you all the basics to create a good-looking document of almost any sort.
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