Basic document settings

Before making a document you should picture how it will look, because certificates, reports and school records differ in size and layout. Document settings fall into three groups: page, font and paragraph. Page settings are margins, orientation (portrait – upright, landscape – sideways), paper size (at school usually A4, 210 × 297 mm) and the number of columns; in current Word they are on the Layout tab, while page colour and page borders are in the Page Background group of the Design tab. You can also drag the margins with the mouse on the ruler (View > Ruler). Font settings are the typeface, size (measured in points), style (bold, italic, underlined) and colour, found in the Font group of the Home tab. Paragraph settings are alignment (left, centre, right, justified), line spacing (1, 1.5, 2 and so on), indent, space before and after, bullets and numbering, found in the Paragraph group.