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Pre-designed cover pages to give a professional look to your report.
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Exercise files
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Quick reference
Add a Cover Page
How to add a pre-designed cover page to your document.
When to use
A cover page is a professional finish to a college level term paper, or a business report. It gives the document a final and polished look.
Instructions:
Note: It is a good practice to View, Navigation Pane. This allows you to observe the pages on the left panel.
Insert
1.Using the exercise file, click under the first line of text, or you can use a blank Word document.
2.On the INSERT ribbon, Pages group, click “Cover Page”
The Navigation Pane shows the cover page above the original page.
3.Undo (Ctrl Z) so the cover page is removed.
4.Insert a second page in your document: Click under the text and press Ctrl Enter (or Ctrl Return)
The Navigation Pane shows two pages.
5.While insertion point is still on page 2, on the INSERT ribbon, Pages group, click “Cover Page”
The Navigation Pane shows the cover page at the top of the document regardless of where you were clicked in the document.
Edit
6.To edit the cover page, click into the pre-formatted fields and fill in the information. You also have the option to move and resize the frames. Make sure to click the edges of the frames to move them.
Remove
7.To remove a cover page,
a.On the INSERT ribbon, Pages group, click “Cover Page”
b.Choose “Remove Current Cover Page”
Login to download- 00:04 In this lesson I'm gonna introduce you to cover pages.
- 00:07 Cover pages give a nice, polished, finished look to a term paper, or
- 00:11 if you're in business, a nice report that will be turned in for others to look at.
- 00:15 It's a good practice when you're dealing with
- 00:18 any kind of multiple pages to have your navigation pane on.
- 00:22 So I'm gonna click on View,
- 00:23 and right over here I'm gonna put a check mark in my Navigation Pane.
- 00:27 I usually always have my navigation pane on.
- 00:30 If it doesn't look like mine, make sure that you have the Pages option clicked,
- 00:33 right over here in the center.
- 00:35 All right, you can start with the exercise that came with this video or
- 00:40 you can start with any blank document.
- 00:41 You can see page one on the navigation pane.
- 00:44 And let's now go to the Insert ribbon.
- 00:46 Right over here, the very top says Cover Page.
- 00:49 When you click the Cover Page you'll see a gallery come up.
- 00:52 Now you have a scroll bar on the right.
- 00:54 Go ahead and click and drag, just so
- 00:55 you can observe all the different cover pages available.
- 00:59 When you see one you like, go ahead and just click on one of them.
- 01:02 And observe, your first page comes up with that cover page, and
- 01:05 look where it landed on the navigation pane.
- 01:09 It is the top one.
- 01:10 Now to edit this you can come in here and
- 01:12 you can click the title of your document and change that.
- 01:15 You can change the description of the document here.
- 01:18 Just giving you ideas of places to place everything.
- 01:21 Now you don't have to do that, okay?
- 01:23 And you can also move these around.
- 01:25 So if you don't like the location of it, you can click the edge of that frame and
- 01:29 move it somewhere else.
- 01:31 Also notice the top of the frame has a spinning arrow.
- 01:34 You can actually click that spinning arrow and you can tip these as well.
- 01:38 You are in total control of everything on this page.
- 01:41 Now what if you don't even want that there?
- 01:44 Well, I've selected the frame of it.
- 01:46 By clicking on the edge I can hit Delete and actually delete that off.
- 01:49 So even though the cover page offered is very nice and
- 01:53 well laid out, you still have the option to change that.
- 01:56 At this point, I want to get rid of that cover page.
- 02:00 Now I'm gonna go up to my Cover Page and
- 02:02 right down here I have the option to Remove Current Cover Page.
- 02:06 Let's go ahead and do that cuz I wanna do this again.
- 02:08 We're gonna repeat the process.
- 02:11 But first, before we repeat it,
- 02:12 we're going to add two more pages to our document.
- 02:15 In the previous lesson, you learned how to put page breaks in to insert blank pages.
- 02:20 I'm gonna go ahead and add two blank pages.
- 02:22 So I've got my first page, my second page, my third page.
- 02:26 My third page is active, I can see it active on the navigation pane, and
- 02:30 my insertion point right over here on the screen.
- 02:32 Well, I'm gonna put in my cover page now just to show you that the computer
- 02:36 is smarter than we are, and the computer knows cover pages go at the top
- 02:40 regardless of where we're clicked in our document.
- 02:42 I could be clicked on page 20 right now and watch what happens.
- 02:46 Again, on the Insert ribbon click on the Cover Page and go ahead and choose
- 02:51 any cover page you want and when you activate it, look at your navigation pane.
- 02:56 The cover page went all the way to the top and
- 02:58 the rest of my document stayed in place.
- 03:01 So regardless of where you're at on screen,
- 03:04 the computer knows where to place a cover page.
- 03:06 All right, thank you so much.
- 03:08 I hope you use them, they are delightful and do give that final, polished,
- 03:12 professional look to very important documents.
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