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Adding a Background to Your Document How to add a graphic background to your document. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Adjusting Bottoms of Pages Word can adjust the vertical alignment of pages so that they all end at the same place. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Adjusting Margins in Print Preview You can change margin settings while looking at your document in Print Preview. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Allowing for Letterhead Using letterhead for your printout? What about for the second page, where there is no letterhead and you need the margin set differently? Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Avoiding a Section Break Booby Trap How to make sure section breaks behave as you want if you need to delete them. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Breaking Your Text Word provides four different types of breaks that you can place within your text. These breaks allow you to start new pages or new sections in your document, as you require. This tip explains the differences between each of the breaks supported by Word, along with how to insert them in the document. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Changing Page Margins One of the most basic of layout determinations is what margins you will use for the pages in your document. Word allows you to set margins on a section-by-section basis in a document. This tip explains how. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Changing Page Orientation Learn about different page orientations and how to change them. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Changing Sections A section is an organizational unit within a document that enables you to change different page-level formats in the same document. Sections are very helpful for some formatting needs, but you may not get the anticipated results when you choose to delete sections you no longer need. This tip explains why. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Determining a Column Width When you start to create a document, you need to “lay it out” so that it is inviting and helpful to readers. This tip discusses some of the things you’ll want to consider as you determine how wide your text columns should be. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Determining Page Layout Word allows you to specify quite a few parameters concerning the pages in your documents. Collectively, these parameters define your page layout. This tip explains some of the considerations you need to take into account whenever you create your own page layout. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Formatting a Cover Page Cover pages, which often need to be formatted different than the main body of a document, can easily be created in Word. The trick is to add a section break between the cover page and the body. You can then format each section independently of the other. This tip explains this concept and how to add the necessary section break. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Getting Rid of Section Breaks, But Not Section Formatting Delete a section break and the portion of the document before the break adopts the same section formatting as the portion of the document after the break. If you don’t like the way that Word handles such deletions, you’ll need to change the way you treat section breaks. This tip describes the best way to do that. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Making Wider Footer Margins Do you want your footers to have different margins than your main document? Here's the information on how to do it. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Moving Section Breaks Section breaks can be edited just like any other character in your document. This tip explains how you can use standard editing techniques to move a break to exactly where you need it. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Quickly Displaying the Page Setup Dialog Box The Page Setup dialog box is indispensable in setting up the overall look of your document. You can display the dialog box quickly by knowing where to click on the rulers, as described in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Removing Breaks Word supports all types of breaks in a document. Once they are in place, it can be confusing figuring out how to get rid of them. As described in tis tip, breaks are nothing but a special character that you can edit just like other characters. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Selecting a Paper Size Your printer may be able to print on many different sizes of paper, but if you don’t format your document correctly it will never know which of those paper sizes to use. This tip explains just how easy it is to format your document for a particular paper size. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Shifting Margins Evident in Word 2002 When you open a document in one version of Word and compare it to what you see for the same document in a different version of Word, you may notice some differences. Many times these differences are caused by “rule changes” from one version of Word to another. This tip explains how you can use the compatibility options in Word to help documents be treated the same. Microsoft Word versions: 2000 | 2002

Skipping Numbering Got a numbered list, but you want to add other types of non-numbered paragraphs in the middle of the list? It’s easy to do if you follow the steps in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Squeezing Everything In How to make your text fit in the space available. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Starting a New Section on an Odd Page Number How to force a section to the next odd-numbered page. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Two Page Numbering Schemes in the Same Document Word is great at numbering pages if you only need a single, consistent numbering scheme through the document. If you need two separate numbering schemes, you need to apply some workarounds described in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Understanding Mirror Margins One of the margin settings you can use in Word is for mirror margins. These margins simply reverse the horizontal margins depending on whether a page is a left- or right-facing page. This tip explains what mirror margins are and how to control them in your document. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Understanding Sections Sections are handy if you want to subdivide a document so you can apply different document formatting to those subdivisions. Word provides several different types of breaks that you can use to signal the start of new sections. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Understanding the Gutter Margin Word gives you complete control over the margins defined in a document. One special type of margin you can define is the gutter margin, which is an “additional” margin space helpful for binding or hole-punching needs. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

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