Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office Word 2007

Chapter 9. Formatting Documents and Sections

In this chapter

Working with Sections 264

Changing Page Margins 266

Setting Page Orientation 269

Setting Paper Size 269

Setting Vertical Alignment 271

Using Line Numbering 271

Inserting Page Breaks 273

Inserting Cover Pages 274

Creating Headers and Footers 276

Repeating Elements on Every Page 286

Applying a Page Watermark 287

Working with Multiple Columns 290

Applying a Page Background 293

Using Page Borders 294

Troubleshooting 295

Working with Sections

This chapter is about the types of formatting that affect entire documents or sections. So before getting too far into that, let’s review what those terms mean.

A document, obviously, is the entire document file. Document-wide settings affect every ...