MIcrosoft Word 2004 for Mac OSX. Visual QuickStart Guide

Page & Section Formatting

Chapters 3 and 4 provide a wealth of information about formatting textthe types of formatting you can apply and the various methods you can use to apply them. But if your document is destined for the printer, you should also be interested in page formatting.

Page formatting is formatting that is applied to an entire document or section of a document. For example, margins, which determine the spacing between the edge of the paper and the text indents, are applied to entire pagesyou can't have different margins for different words or paragraphs. Page borders, which are another example of page formatting, surround the contents of a page, not just parts of it.

Many types of page formatting can be applied to document sections or parts. For example, a header is text or other information that appears at the top of each page. Rather than have the same thing appear at the top of every page in a document, you can create different document sections, each with its own custom header. Multiple-column text is another example of formatting that can be applied to document sections.

In this chapter, I tell you about the different types of page formatting and explain how you can apply them to entire documents and document sections.