A well-maintained piece of work or a file usually starts with a stylish cover page. But of course your own work does not start with designing such a front page. It’s even easier in Word if you don’t insert the front page until everything is ready. This is how you create a cover page in Word.
Step 1: Insert cover page
Let’s assume your document is all set. At the top of the document, go to the tab Insert. At the top left of the section Pages can you have the option Cover Sheet Selecting. Microsoft Word shows here sixteen templates of front pages.
You have to look a bit through the suggested formatting of the examples here. Don’t be guided by the use of color, the font or graphic elements, because you can easily adjust them. Look especially at the structure. Do you want to use an image? Do you want the title in the middle? Should everything be center or left aligned? Click on an example with an interesting structure.
Step 2: Fill in parts
In this example, we’ll choose a design with a sidebar, a photo, and a block to place information about the author. The template invites you to enter your own data in the various sections. You don’t have to select and delete the text. Just click on a text block and type your own data.
If you think there is too much on a part, for example the subtitle, you can remove it by clicking on it and the deletebutton. If you are logged in with your own name, you will see that your name has already been entered as author, but of course you can also change that.
Step 3: Personalize
Of course it is not the intention that people see from a mile away that you have used a Word template. To begin with, change the color scheme. In the tab To design choose with the button Colors a fresh color scheme.
We have opted for a design with a photo. To replace that image with your own image, right-click on the image and choose the command Change image / From file so you can insert an image on the hard drive.
The title is here in a form. When you click on it, the tab will appear Form division where you change the color of the Shape Fill and the Shape contour adjusts.
