Word 2000 in a Nutshell

Document-Level Settings

Now that I’ve set up the document layout, I turn my attention to other document-level settings. MLA requires that the pages of a document be numbered in the upper right corner, omitting the number on the first page. The number stands alone, without a “P.” or anything next to it. Use the Insert → Page Numbers command for this. Figure 14-3 shows the appropriate settings already made in the Page Numbers dialog.

Figure 14-3. Setting page numbers

For this template, page numbering is the only document-level setting I’m going to use. When designing your own templates, here are a few ideas to consider:

• If headers and footers are to be used in the document, consider whether they will be the same throughout the document. If not, you may need to break the document up into sections to control the headers and footers. For more on this, see Chapter 7.

• If footnotes are to be used, you’ll want to make sure the options for them are correctly set. It might even be a good idea to include a sample footnote in the boilerplate text for the template to show how they should be used. Footnotes are covered in Chapter 7.

• Will the document use a table of contents or index? If so, setting it up in the template can save a lot of time later. Go ahead and create the table of contents or index and include instructions in the template boilerplate text for how to mark entries, configure headings ...