Page Formatting

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Page Formatting

• Computer Applications 1
• Obj. 3.01-Understand Business Documents

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Page Formatting

• Arrangement of text on a page
• The culmination of text and paragraph formatting
  presents the final picture and communicates a
  message to the reader

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Page Formatting Includes

• Margin
• Page Orientation
• Landscape
• Portrait
• Headers and Footers
• Orphan and Widow Protection

• Page Breaks
• Soft Page Break
• Hard Page Break
• Columns
• Borders

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Margin

• The amount of white space around the sides of the
  document

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Page Orientation

• Portrait
• The document is taller
• than wide
• Landscape
• The document is wider than tall

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Headers and Footers

• Add global information to a document such as page
  numbers and document titles.
• A document may contain more than one header
  and/or footer
• Books and manuscripts are often formatted with
  footers that change to reflect the titles of each
  chapter
• Section breaks control the flow of headers and
  footers

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Orphan and Widow Protection

• Usually a default feature in word processing
  software
• Orphan - a single line of a paragraph that is
  left alone at the bottom of a page
• Widow a single line of a paragraph that is left
  alone at the top of a page

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Page Breaks

• May be manually or automatic and are used to
  manage the content on a page
• Hard page break is performed manually when a
  new page is needed for a break or change in
  content
• Soft page break occurs automatically through
  the word processing
• software
• Text is simply continued to the next
• page when the space on the previous
• page is exhausted

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Columns

• Used to format text for documents such as
  newspapers and newsletters
• Text is arranged in columns with or without
  vertical lines between each

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Borders

• Used in page formatting to add lines around text
  or graphic images