Archive for the ‘Page Formatting’ Category
Friday, April 4th, 2008
Here are a couple ways to get rid of section breaks. Keep in mind that by removing section breaks you can affect things like headers and footers, section-based page numbering, different margins or a different page orientation.
If You Know Where the Section Breaks Are
And there aren't many of them.
Turn ...
Posted in Find & Replace, Page Formatting, Sections, Word 2007 | 16 Comments »
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
There is no pre-assigned shortcut key that will insert a section break into a Word document. These directions will show you how to define your own keyboard shortcut for it.
Click the Office button, then Word Options.
In the left-hand pane, click Customize.
At the bottom left of the Customize window, look for ...
Posted in Customize, Page Formatting, Sections, Shortcut Keys, Word 2007 | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Here are a couple additional adjustments you can make to your headers and footers.
Find Them in Two Places
There are two places to make this change from: if you have a header or footer in the document, double-click to activate it, and look for the Header & Footer Tools button at ...
Posted in Headers & Footers, Page Formatting, Word 2007 | 4 Comments »
Monday, March 31st, 2008
If you’re making a sign or inserting a table, you might want it to be centered from top to bottom on the page. Rather than pushing the Enter key to try to do that, Word can do it automatically for you.
Steps to Center a Page Vertically
From anywhere on the page, ...
Posted in Page Formatting, Sections, Tables, Word 2007 | 4 Comments »
Monday, March 31st, 2008
There are two ways to set your page orientation: Portrait and Landscape. A portrait page is longer from top to bottom, landscape is longer from side to side. The default setting is portrait, but when
you want to make a sign or lay out a wide table, landscape can be ...
Posted in Page Formatting, Tables, Word 2007 | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Inserting Page Numbers
There are two ways to insert page numbers in Word, either as Building Blocks or as field codes.
Page numbers are part of the Building Blocks of Word: what that really means is that there are a number of pre-formatted, pre-positioned page numbers to use. The gallery of page ...
Posted in Building Blocks, Fields & Quick Parts, Page Formatting, Page Numbering, Word 2007 | 32 Comments »
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
In a long Word document you might need to have one or more pages that are a different orientation. Typically, most print documents are created in a portrait orientation. Being able to make one or more pages landscape allows you to insert something like a large table or chart that ...
Posted in Page Formatting, Practice, Projects & Practice, Sections, Word 2007 | 40 Comments »
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
This practice exercise will take you through the steps of making a custom footer (or header)and saving it as a building block in Word. There will be two distinct tasks accomplished: creating the footer and saving it as a building block. Creating the footer will go through where to find ...
Posted in Building Blocks, Customize, Headers & Footers, Page Formatting, Practice, Projects & Practice, Word 2007 | 4 Comments »
Monday, March 17th, 2008
A footer is the text that sits along the bottom margin that can repeat on every page of the document. It typically would hold the document title, page numbers, the print date, or a message like Draft or Internal Use Only. A footer is exactly the same as a header, ...
Posted in Building Blocks, Headers & Footers, Page Formatting, Practice, Projects & Practice, Word 2007 | 5 Comments »
