How To Make 'Tarpapel' Using Microsoft Office Publisher

Teaching has never been easy. Teachers have to go through a lot while in the classroom. They have to deal with different types of students, think of better teaching strategies and attend to a myriad of extra-curricular activities and ancillaries.

how to print tarpapel

To lessen the burden of teachers, as well as to minimize their expenses, we try to create a video clip on how to make a "tarpapel" coined from tarpaulin and papel (paper) using the Microsoft Office Publisher (MS Office 2013).


"Tarpapel" is ideal when printing pictures with the size that your ordinary printer can't accommodate.

 Read our step by step tutorial in the sideshow below.



step 1. Open your MS Office Publisher.

step 2. Choose your desired paper size in Page Design tab. It must be greater than letter or legal.


step 3. There are custom and built-in sizes but if it is not there, click Page Setup or Create New Page Size. A Create New Page Size window will pop up. Under Page, you can change the height and width of your paper. You can also customize the margin under this window. Then click OK.


step 4. Go to Insert and click Picture to insert the picture you want to print. Or you can simply copy the picture and paste it on the Publisher.


step 5. Adjust your picture's size to fit within the printable area of the page you have chosen.


step 6. After you have positioned the picture perfectly, print it (ctrl P). A printer's dialogue should appear. Under Pages, choose Tiled and click print.


step 7. Wait until the printing is done. Your picture will be printed by parts (depending on the size you have created. The bigger the size, the more number of parts will be printed. It can also be seen in the printer's preview.). When it's finished you can do the scissors' job.


step 8. Then piece together the picture parts. The edges of the picture parts are cut in two different ways. The other part should be cut without white space visible while its corresponding part (the one which you will join with no white space) must be cut leaving a approximately a half centimeter of white space behind. We do this so that we have an area to paste the picture on (the one which is cut with no white space).


Hopefully I am helping you out in your tarpapel making and start doing wonders in your classroom.
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