10. Laying Out a Document’s Pages

Your text may be a work of art, but it won’t be museum-quality unless you carefully prepare your canvas—or, in this case, your page. This chapter teaches you the basics of page formatting, to enhance your entire document’s balance, flow, and readability.

When you’re putting together an important document—especially one that other people will read—it’s essential to look at the big picture and the little details. In this case, the big picture is the page (or pages) itself. Your cool fonts, brilliant color scheme, and perfectly spaced paragraphs may look great on their own, but the page holds them together. If you neglect page formatting, your document may not have the elegance, coolness factor, or readability ...

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