Newsletter Procedures

This page documents how we create the newsletter each month.

Overview

• We create the newsletter in Google Docs
• We sent the newsletter from Google Mail

It's a two step procedure because you can't create really beautifully formatted items in Google Mail.

Open The Document

• Go to docs.google.com
• Open "Elderberries Newsletter Stage 1"

Fonts

• Article Title: Arial 18 Blue (top row in the colour picker)
• Main Text: Arial 11
• To reset a chunk of text, highlight it and click "Normal Text" and again, "Normal Text"

To Add A Photo

• Open the photo with any photo editing software
• Select All
• Go to your draft
• Click on the photo to show its handles
• Drag the handles around to resize the photo.

Adding An Article

• Click inside one of the cells
• Under Format --> Table you have options to insert rows, delete rows etc.