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Pre-designed cover pages to give a professional look to your report.

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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”

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  • 00:04 Hello, in this lesson we're going to be adding a cover page to a document to give
  • 00:09 a professional look, a polished look to any manuscript or
  • 00:13 report that you are writing.
  • 00:15 First of all, it is located in the insert ribbon in the pages groove and
  • 00:19 you have a Cover Page option right here.
  • 00:21 When you activate that, you have a variety of options to choose from and
  • 00:25 you can just scroll through those.
  • 00:28 There's more cover pages from Office.com which will take you online to find
  • 00:32 even more.
  • 00:32 And then of course, if you change your mind and don't like one,
  • 00:35 you would simply hit remove current cover page.
  • 00:37 Well, before we get started, it's always a good idea to view your navigation pane.
  • 00:42 So I'm going to make sure to click on view and right up here on the left,
  • 00:46 activate Navigation Pane just to make sure when I start adding my cover pages,
  • 00:50 I can actually see it in the pages group right here at the thumbnails.
  • 00:53 All right, so let's go ahead and add a cover page.
  • 00:56 So, I'll go go back to my Insert ribbon, we'll click on Pages > Cover Pages, and
  • 01:01 I'm just gonna choose this first one right here.
  • 01:03 When I choose that, look what happened on the Navigation pane.
  • 01:06 Page 1 actually became page 0 because,
  • 01:09 it’s not a part of the official manuscript page numbering system.
  • 01:14 All right? So, it takes care of that.
  • 01:16 Now another thing that’s happening is the actual page showed up on your screen, but
  • 01:20 it may have filled it entirely.
  • 01:22 So I can hold my control and zoom down with my wheel to zoom in with this.
  • 01:28 I could also collapse my ribbon, double click on the ribbon name to collapse it so
  • 01:33 I can see more on my screen just for the purposes of this video.
  • 01:37 And you can see that it's actually showing me a text box and that's what this is.
  • 01:42 So any portion of this can be moved over here.
  • 01:46 You have full control.
  • 01:47 You can click in these fields and retype the document title, the subtitle.
  • 01:51 It even has the author of the document, which I can change.
  • 01:56 And on this particular text box right here,
  • 01:59 I can even tip it sideways, and rearrange anything I want.
  • 02:04 You have full control over what happens on your cover page.
  • 02:07 And so, let's see, I could scroll down here and see page 2.
  • 02:11 And then I decide, "Well I don't like that at all.
  • 02:12 I want to remove that cover page.
  • 02:14 Well, back to the Insert ribbon.
  • 02:15 Right over here under pages group, under cover pages, and
  • 02:19 at the very bottom we have Remove Cover Page.
  • 02:22 Okay, I'll remove it.
  • 02:23 Well I want to show you a little trick about this.
  • 02:25 It’s actually smarter than we are.
  • 02:26 So, right here, I'm going to enter a couple of brand new pages.
  • 02:31 I’ll call this page one and CTRL+Enter, page two.
  • 02:37 So I am only if I can type right.
  • 02:39 Okay, I am typing away and I decide right now gee I want a cover page.
  • 02:45 So even though I've got three pages in my document,
  • 02:47 right down here on the bottom left, page 3 of 3.
  • 02:50 And even though it says page 1 and 2, cuz it remembered this one as a page 0,
  • 02:54 that's okay.
  • 02:54 I'm still gonna go ahead and Insert > Pages > Cover Page, and
  • 02:57 I'll choose a different one this time.
  • 02:59 I'll choose this one.
  • 03:01 And now look.
  • 03:02 It knows, even though I was on page three,
  • 03:04 it knows that a cover page goes way up at the top.
  • 03:07 That is where it goes.
  • 03:08 Now we've numbered everything properly,
  • 03:10 page one, page two and page three way at the bottom.
  • 03:13 So just so
  • 03:14 you know it's a professional polished look of something already designed for you.
  • 03:18 All's you have to do is click in the field, re-type what you want, print and
  • 03:22 turn it in.
  • 03:23 All right, thank you.

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