Cover pages (Word 2007, 2010)

Cover pages

• This feature was introduced in Microsoft Word 2007.  It inserts a professional looking front cover page into your document.

• Open a document called Cover page.  Click at the start of the document. Click on the Insert tab and then click on the Cover Page button (within the Pages section).

• This will display a drop down from which you can select a cover page type.  In this case select the Mod type. 

• Once you select a cover page type you will see the following. 

• Click on the [Type the document title] and then enter a title, such as 'About Computers'. 

• You can also insert a subtitle and abstract. 

• Click on the [Pick the date] control to insert today's date. 

• View the document in Print Preview view.  To do this click on the Office Button.  Click on the arrow to the right of the Print command, and then select the Print Preview command.

• When you have finished previewing your document, click on the Close Print Preview icon and you will display the document in Print Layout view. 

• Save your changes and close the file.

Applying Automatic Hyphenation

• If a word at the end of a line of text is too long to fit on that line Word 2007 will move that word to the beginning of the next line rather than hyphenate it. If you wish you can set up Word to automatically hyphenate text.  You can even control the length of the area at the end of a line that will trigger automatic hyphenation, when required. 

• Open a document called Hyphenation.  The document will look something like the illustration below.  You should see that hyphenation is not active. 

• Click on the Page Layout tab and from within the Page Setup group, click on the Hyphenation button.  From the drop down displayed click on the Automatic command.  

• The document will now display hyphens at the end of some lines, as illustrated below.  

• Before continuing turn off automatic hyphenation by clicking on the Page Layout tab and from within the Page Setup group, click on the Hyphenation button.  From the drop down displayed click on the None command, as illustrated below.   

• Close your document without saving your changes.