Chapter 6. Designing Your Pages

In This Chapter

  • Inserting pages

  • Organizing text in tables

  • Displaying text as WordArt

  • Creating text boxes

  • Dividing text into columns

  • Adding pictures

  • Printing

To design the overall layout of your pages by adding columns or headers and footers that display titles or page numbers, you use the Insert and Page Layout tabs.

The Insert tab provides commands for inserting items into a document, such as new pages, tables, pictures, and headers and footers.

The Page Layout tab provides commands for defining how your pages look, such as creating columns; defining top, bottom, left, and right page margins; as well as defining how text wraps around pictures or other objects you place in the middle of a page.

Inserting New Pages

Word automatically adds new pages to your document as you write. However, Word also gives you the option of adding a new page in the middle or the beginning of your document.

To insert a new, blank page in your document, follow these steps:

  1. Click the Insert tab.

  2. Move the cursor where you want to insert the new page.

  3. Click the Page Break icon in the Pages group.

    Word adds a blank page to your document.

You don't need to add a page to the end of a document. Just move the cursor to the end of your document (Ctrl+End), start typing, and Word adds new pages at the end of your document automatically.

Adding (And Deleting) a Cover Page

Rather than add more pages to type text, you may just need a cover page that is the first page that anyone can read. To create a ...

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