Chapter 5, Formatting pages

Goals

• Change page margins, orientation, sizes.
• Add headers and footers to documents and sections.
  • Automatically number pages in a document.
  • Apply different formatting to headers and footers in different sections.
  • Apply different formatting to headers and footers on the first page and other pages in a document.
  • Apply a watermark to a page.
  • Apply borders and background color to a section
• Describe and use sections in a document.

Notes

• Changing Page Size, margins and Orientation
  • Page layout tab
  • Set margins, this is important for most academic documents.
    • This can be done manually
    • Margin presets are good to look at too.
• Using headers, footers and page numbers
  • This has always been tricky to get this right, pay attention to the settings in the different fields.
    • This becomes even more difficult with sections.
    • Notice the gray labels for the headers and footers.
  • Note the behavior of Different First page in the header/footer design tab.
  • Note, loading a picture from onedrive:
    • Insert
    • Online Pictures
  • Also note the changing of text wrapping around the picture.
  • Pay attention to page numbering
  • Pay attention to how the first page does not have headers and footers.
  • This will become more complex later. Don't be fooled.
• Organizing a document with sections
  • Sections give us the ability to make different parts of the document appear different.
  • Page 225 in the book gives a summary.
  • Sections are a tool that make Word NOT A TYPEWRITER.
    • Consider, for example, a book.
    • Different formats for
      • End Papers
      • Half Title page
      • Title Page
      • Dedication Section
    • You would like consistent formatting within a section, but different formatting between sections.
      • Page numbering schemes
      • Headers, footers,
      • Margins, ...
      • Column modes, ...
  • Note different section break types.
    • Next Page
      • The section starts on the next page.
      • Chapters, title page and such.
      • This is a combination of a page break and a section break.
    • Continuous
      • The section starts here.
      • But does not insert a new page.
      • This would be a way to go to multiple column mode, within a chapter.
    • Even/Odd page:
      • Tells word that the next section should start on an even/odd page.
      • This is useful for numbering pages like a book.
  • After you insert the section break, note how the labels in headers and footers change.
    • You should get the headers and footers set before you do a lot of work on them.
    • This includes the Link to Previous button.
    • Note how to use the show/hide button.
• Adding page backgrounds, borders and, watermarks.
  • Nice, but less useful in an academic document.