How to create borders, boxes and shading round text - Word tutorial

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This video tutorial shows how to create different headers and footers on odd and even pages of a Word document.

Open Microsoft Word. In the lesson that follows, you will learn various ways to format a paragraph. When you are formatting a paragraph, you do not need to highlight the entire paragraph. Placing the cursor anywhere in the paragraph enables you to format it. After you set a paragraph format, subsequent paragraphs will have the same format unless you change their format.

This video tutorial shows how to numerically set the page margins of a Word document.

In this tutorial, we'll disucss how to eliminate 15 or so common annoyances by using macros. Some of these annoyances are specific ones that you may share: for example, it may irk you that Word doesn't automatically return to the last editing position when you open a document, that it indiscriminately capitalizes the first letter of every word when you apply title case to selected text, or that you have to mess with the Paste Options dialog box or the Paste Options Smart Tag if you want to paste in text with no formatting.

The default page orientation in Word is Portrait mode, and most of the time this is how you are going to want to set up your documents. Simply put, Portrait mode means the page is longer than it is wide.