• Can I get a graphic with that text? (covers text wrap, in conjunction with images )
• Easily create and format flexible tables (especially suitable for using spot color for emphasized information, technical specifications, presentation of optional or required product accessories, or design-based accents)
• Create placeholders for repeating content

• Discuss a situation involving work with a document template -- either during today's class, or on a different occasion -- during which you encountered a task, a toolbar, a menu item, a palette, etc. that was not intuitive in its completion method and/or its location/presentation on screen or within the program.
• • First, how did this "problem" present itself ?
  • Second, how did you react to the situation? Did you use the trial and error method to "fix" it and/or actually go into the program to learn how to work with that particular item? Did you try to work around the problem, perhaps by incorporating it into your work or deleting/moving the item in question? Did you choose a different template? Did you "abandon" the program altogether, in favor of programs with which you're more familiar?
  • Third, what factors led to your decision -- and how would you assess the consequences/outcome in regard to this particular document/project, as well as your approach to templates, in general?
  • Finally, to what extent would you agree or disagree that such difficulties constitute a misrepresentation of the advertised benefits of document templates? Again, these often-cited benefits include allowing novice users and those with limited time and resources to benefit from a program's specialized capabilities through the use of prefabricated document structure/design elements -- while still being able to customize these documents with "standard," "intuitively-located" text, color, and image-editing options.

Post your response to your individual blog by Friday at midnight.

• See it before you print it
• Transparency in Adobe applications