let's say you need to create a
newsletter for the company you work for
not a problem you can create many types
of documents including newsletters with
word you can use one of words templates
or you can create one on your own
I'm actually working on a newsletter
right now for CityVille high school I
decided not to use a template because I
wanted to design the newsletter myself
this time I've already entered my text
but now I need to make some changes and
additions to the document before it's
ready
currently my newsletter is in landscape
format this means that everything on the
page is oriented horizontally I think I
really want to change my newsletter so
that the orientation is more vertical to
change the page orientation all I need
to do is select the page Layout tab and
then click the orientation commands in
the page setup group I only have two
options here just left-click portrait
and now our newsletter will appear in a
vertical format I thought I was going to
have more information for this month's
newsletter so I plan on printing it on a
eight-and-a-half by fourteen legal size
sheet of paper but it turns out there
really wasn't that much news this month
let's change the paper size all we need
to do is make sure we're on the page
Layout tab now left-click the size
command and a drop-down menu will appear
you can see that the legal size is
selected and that I have a lot more to
choose from there are several different
paper sizes envelopes and even more
paper sizes that don't appear in the
list I want to change my newsletter to
the standard letter size which is
eight-and-a-half by eleven inches so all
I need to do is left-click it now we can
see that my page size has changed we
were able to get rid of the extra
whitespace I know that I'll need to
for my margins as I continue to design a
newsletter but I probably should go
ahead and change my margins I really
want them to be a little bigger so that
the text isn't so close to the edge of
the page to change the page margins make
sure you were on the page Layout tab
click the margins command and menu of
options appears
let's see right now I'm using narrow
which means there are 1/2 inch margins
on each side of the document let's
change that to normal which will give us
one-inch margins on each side to change
the size just left-click the margin size
you want if you don't see what you want
you can always click the margins command
and then select custom margins from the
list
this opens the page setup dialog box
where you can manually enter margins
let's see I do want one inch margins on
both sides but a half-inch margin on the
top will be nice let me just make that
change and click OK okay things are
looking pretty good so far there is one
more thing I want to do I really want to
draw attention to the first news item
about the Teacher of the Year it really
is the main article there are a lot of
ways you can emphasize things I want to
make this news item a section of its own
so that formatting the document is
easier to do this I need to insert a
break into the document okay stay with
me here breaks can be confusing but I
think once we talk through the types of
breaks you'll understand how you can use
them in most cases formatting symbols
don't automatically show you have to
tell word to reveal them while you are
editing your document to do this go back
to the Home tab locate the paragraph
group and select the show/hide command
when I left click this command it
reveals paragraph and formatting symbols
now to insert a break the first thing
you need to do is put your insertion
point where you want the break to appear
now make sure the page layout tab is
selected and then click breaks don't let
the menu that appears confuse you there
are many types of breaks we want to use
a continuous break see it says insert a
section break and start a new section on
the same page that's what we want to do
I want to keep all my text on the same
page but I just want teacher of the year
to be in its own section of the page
just left-click it see how the section
break appeared in the document I bet
you're curious as to all those other
breaks and what they're for we won't be
using any of them in this document but
let's take a look at them anyway you can
insert a page break into a document if
you want certain text to appear on a
page when the page is full text will
automatically flow to the next page but
there may be times when you want to do
this manually a column break can be used
when you organize text into columns and
want certain text to appear in a
specific column as you can see there are
a lot of other types of breaks the
easiest way for you to learn what each
one of these is is to read the
description and then insert that type of
break into a document you're working
with that way you can see how the break
affects the text give the various break
styles and other page setup options a
try you'll learn a lot by practicing
with the commands on your own good luck