SIGAY KAUYAGAN

COMPUTER PROGRAM

WORD LESSON 2
PAGE LAYOUT

1.
Microsoft Office Word is a program to
create, edit and read a text document. You
can insert text in different fonts, sizes and
colors, you can create tables, paste
pictures and different types of shapes.
After the Word Lessons you will know how
to use Microsoft Office Word, how to create
Text with different designs, how to make a
Layout for your documents and some more
things.

PAGE LAYOUT...................................................2

Page Setup.....................................................2
Paragraph.......................................................2
2. PAGE & DOCUMENT FORMATTING................3
Pages..............................................................3
Document Formatting.....................................3
3. STYLES & TABLE OF CONTENTS...................4
Styles..............................................................4
Table of Contents............................................4
4. HEADER, FOOTER, FOOTNOTES...................5
Header & Footer.............................................5
Footnotes (or Endnotes).................................5
5. LAB.....................................................................6

When you have question about Microsoft

Office Word, ask us and we will help you.
This is the Guide document for the Word
Lessons, for Lab work, use an extra empty
document.

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1. PAGE LAYOUT
These Tools you can find under Page Layout.

Page Setup

Orientation Change if your document should be in Portrait

Margins here you can change the margins of you document.

Be careful! Some Printers cannot print all over a page.
Breaks Here you can insert Breaks
A Section Break is useful if you wan

Size Change the Pager-Size of the document.

Most
in common
is the Letter-Size.
Columns
Change
the Settings
here, if you want to wo

Paragraph
Somehow the same like in Standard Formatting (see
above), but here you can change the Indent and Spacing
Settings in more Detail.

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2. PAGE & DOCUMENT FORMATTING

Pages
These Tools are under Insert in the Toolbar.

Cover Page

Blank Page

Make a Cover Page separated

from the rest of the document.
You dont need to create an
extra document.

Add a blank page anywhere you want in your document.

Page Break

End a current page here and get to the next one.

You dont need a lot of empty lines.

Document Formatting
If you want to use a prepared look for your document, or you want to make your own and use it for more
documents, you can use Document Formatting under the Design Tools.

Here are different Themes with different Fonts, Colors, Paragraphs

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3. STYLES & TABLE OF CONTENTS

Styles
Here you can use prepared Styles or do some on your own. They are pretty useful, for example the
headings can be used later for the Table of Contents. Right-click on one of the styles and you can add or
modify them.

When you click on modify, this window will appear:

Here you can modify your style in detail. You can
change
the Font,
the Size
like everything what you learned already from the
Standard Formatting.

When you change your style and you used it before

in your document, then it will change also there, but
not other documents!

Table of Contents
When you use a style with the type Heading, you can use it for the Table of Contents.
In the Toolbar under References you can find them. When you click on
Table of Contents you insert it where the cursor is.
It shows a list of your Headings and if your want, also the page numbers.
When you work on your document, the Table would not update instead. You
have to click on Update Table.
You can find an example for the Table of Contents at the beginning of this document.

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4. HEADER, FOOTER, FOOTNOTES

Header & Footer
With this Tool under Insert, you can insert a Header, a Footer or a Page
Number at the Top or the Bottom of the Page. They are on any page.
When you click on them, you will get a list of possibilities.
You can also change them, when you double-click at the top- or bottommargin of the page.

Footnotes (or Endnotes)

When you have a long text and need explanations of some words or you want to mark the source of a
quotation, you can use Footnotes (or Endnotes) which adding a small number in the text and one at
the end of the page where you can fill in your explanation or source.
You can find this tool under References in the toolbar.
Click Insert Footnote or Insert Endnote and the Note appears where
the cursor was.

An Endnote has an extra

A new Footnote is always shown on the same page as the number. When the number in the text moves to a

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5. LAB
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Change the margins, the paper size and the columns of your document.
Type a short text (or copy one from the Internet). Change the Spacing of it.
Insert a Page Break.
Insert and create a Cover Page.
Give your Document a Theme from the Document Formatting.
Give your Text a Heading with a Heading Style. Try to modify that Style.
Insert a Table of Content.
Insert a Header and a Footer.
Insert a Footnote and an Endnote.

When you have any questions, ask your teacher. He will help you.

Computer Program Word Lesson 2

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Andreas Weber & Sigay Kaujagan