The same is true in Word for Mac Suggestion: Take advantage of the ? in one of the corners of the dialog boxes. This particular example below is not yet well marked up. Taking advantage of the underlying markup. The same is true in Word for Mac Document Map, or Navigational PaneĪ very useful way to navigate through a formatted document, Is a WYSIWYG, but without the ability to see the formatting commands.Ī very useful feature, once you get used to it. The same is true in Word for Mac Print Preview You can see some formatting commands if you wish (which you cannot in Print Preview). See what document looks like before printing. The same is true in Word for Mac Print Layout Some utility, but no great advantage over other views. Headers, footers, some graphics, & columns are not visible in this view, You may wish to know about International Standard Paper Sizes (by Markus Kuhn,Cambridge University). You can set up for special sizes (for use in a small notebook, for example) to include other than US standards. Line numbers are useful for sequential editing purposes or for collaborative editing. One can use sections (to be discussed later) to have a single document formatted so that different sections use different orientations.Īpply to allows one to apply a page layout instruction to a page, a section (in conjunction with document breaks), or the entire docuemnt. While portrait or landscape are typical options for an entire document, Margin setting adds extra space to the side margin or top margin of a document that you plan to bind.Ī gutter margin helps ensure that text isn't obscured by the binding. The same is true in Word for Mac According to Microsoft. Here is where you format headers to mirror each other in a document. You can define header and footer placement.īut be aware that you can inadvertently run your text and header/footer into each other. define where text will be placed on the page. and is analogous to the way HTML/CSS formatting identifies the type of page. can be found in the page setup section of the layout tab in the ribbon You can use the tool to look for text objects, or markup objects.įind the markup commands page formatting views breaks headers/footers other objects resources back to top by using the Find & Replace tool (CNTL+H) to look for formatting instructions. It will do you well to be in the habit of always selecting this option. You can see some of the markup if you select the "show-hide" button on the task ribbon. Where it is and then decide what you need to do with it. If it is critical to see exactly where the markup begins and ends, you can use this step to see exactly Much of MSWord's markup is the same as HTML markup, but a lot of it also includes inline style declarationsĪs well.
For example, this is the underlying code on a simple text document. In the browser, look at the underlying code. Were you to save an MSWord file as a web page, one could then open the web page in a browser and then, That is true, but it does not mean that you cannot find it, nor that you cannot take advantage of it. One of the complaints about current Dealing with Markup tools is that the markup is hidden. You will find it easier in the long run if the program is settled into the size and structure of the page it will use. Suggestion: Do try to perfect your page object completely before you type in content just do the page layout elements. To start to understand the many layers of markup objects in MSWord, we will start with document objects for which we did not have an HTML analog. You will be able to control the MSWord presentational layer through the program, however. However, the structural layer markup that you had to create in a web page is usually already embedded in a MSWord document. The markup in MSWord is very similar to the markup in the HyperText Markup Language. Using markup to control document objects Understand the document objects to set up a document for the purpose you have for it.