Special Edition Using Microsoft® Word 2000

Project: Building a Cover Sheet

In many companies, it's commonplace to add a cover sheet or transmittal letter to documents, compiling relevant information about those documents. Word fields are ideal for creating such a cover sheet. In this project, you'll use fields (together with some other features) to build a reusable cover sheet that can be inserted with a single click.

Step #1: Create the format for your cover sheet.

Word doesn't have any built-in document cover sheets, but it does have something close: fax cover sheets. Start with one of those: Create a new document based on the Professional Fax template (page 258) in the Letters & Faxes tab of the New dialog box (see Figure 27.7). Then, edit it as shown in the following steps.

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