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This article now contains a new, minute-and-a half-long demo at the bottom that shows you exactly how to apply a different layout to an existing slide in your presentation.

The key benefit to applying and using slide masters is that you can make universal style changes to every slide in your presentation.

When you add pictures, shapes, or other objects to your documents, they automatically stack in individual layers as you add them. This article tells you how to move individual pictures, shapes, or other objects or objects in a stack. For example, you can move objects up or down within a stack one layer at a time, or you can move them to the top or bottom of a stack in one move.

You can change the look of your shape by changing its fill or by adding effects, such as shadows, glows, reflections, soft edges, bevels, and three-dimensional (3-D) rotations to it. You can also change or remove the outline or border of the shape.

Use the tools in Publisher that help you to add borders, rotate images, add effects, change the colors of an image, and add more or less contrast.

Find out how to change the default colors that are used to display ordinary text, text that is a hyperlink, and text that is a followed hyperlink on your Web page.

Holiday greeting cards offer an excellent opportunity to reconnect with old friends and thank loyal customers.

Track where you left off reading in your book with a bookmark you create.

Find out the basics of working with text boxes.

Don't have Visio? Use Publisher to show relationships between roles in your organization.

Add a picture that has been cropped to a specific shape, such as a star or circle.

Create the right invitation in Publisher 2007 for encouraging attendance at your event.

Avoid lengthy downloads for visitors to your Web site by linking from a smaller image to a large picture on a separate Web page.

Use mail merge to help you track the success of marketing pieces like gift certificates and coupons.

Inches, centimeters, picas, points, or pixels? You choose.

Learn how to change the area of your publication separately from the paper size you plan to print on.

Learn how to print a whole series of labels, name tags, or business cards on a single sheet.

Use automatic hyphenation to fit your text in text boxes.

See how to send your publication as an e-mail message or PDF attachment, publish it to the Web, print it on a desktop printer, or package all its component files to send to a commercial printer.

Follow these steps to get to the point quickly, clearly, and compellingly, and elicit a response.