In This Chapter:

Page Setup and Margins

The page setup and margins are very important for printing.

Selecting the Paper Size

For different documents, you have to use papers of different sizes such as for a greeting card, nametag, or an envelope. Word allows you to set the paper size to a number of different types of standard paper sizes, as well as your custom setting.

Creating Columns

Newspapers and newsletters use columns to break up the text and make the layout more interesting. They help you display large amounts of information in a small amount of space. They also make text very easy to read, as the eyes can quickly run down a colu

Create a Header or Footer

Headers and Footers are located at the top and the bottom of the page respectively. This area is used to display special information, distinct from the text body. For example, document titles and page numbers.

Borders and Shading

Borders and shading can be added to ordinary text and to paragraphs in table cells and frames.

Adding Drop Caps

A drop cap is a large letter that begins a paragraph and drops through several lines of text as shown below.

Inserting a Picture

You can insert pictures into your documents from a variety of sources and formats.

Inserting a Symbol

Microsoft Word has a facility to insert special characters into your documents. Let’s insert a symbol at the end of the article.

Word Wrap

Word wrap is the automatic breaking of text across lines. This feature is used to wrap text around a text box or a picture. Here, the text in a line automatically moves to the next line when its length exceeds the position of the right indent marker.

Inserting a Text Box

Text box is a container for text that can be positioned on a page and resized.

Formatting Tables

Here we begins the lessons on creating and formatting tables.

Entering Data in the Table

Now we show you how to enter data into the table you just created.

Add a Border to a Table

Here we show you how to add borders to your tables.

Choose a Page Orientation

Page orientation refers to how your document will be printed. There are two types of orientations — Landscape and Portrait. In the Portrait orientation, the length of the page is more than its width. In the Landscape mode, the width is more th

Print Preview and Printing

Part of the printing process is looking at a preview of exactly what your document will look like on paper, because this is often different from the version you work with on the screen.