Change margins

Applies To

In Word, each page automatically has a one-inch margin. You can customize or choose predefined margin settings, set margins for facing pages, allow extra margin space to allow for document binding, and change how margins are measured.

1. Select Layout > Margins.
2. Select the margin configuration you want, or select Custom Margins to define your own margins.

Create newsletter columns

Applies To

1. To lay out the whole document in columns, select Layout > Columns.
2. Choose the option you want, or choose More Columns to set your own column format.

Make part of your document into columns

1. Select the paragraphs you want to lay out in columns.
2. Select Layout > Columns, and then choose the options you want.

Change page orientation to landscape or portrait

Applies To

Change orientation of whole document

1. To change the orientation of the whole document, select Layout > Orientation.
2. Choose Portrait or Landscape.

Change part of a document to landscape

1. Select the content that you want on a landscape page.
2. Go to Layout, and open the Page Setup dialog box.
3. Select Landscape, and in the Apply to box, choose Selected text.

Add a border to a page

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1. Go to Design > Page Borders.
2. Make selections for how you want the border to look.
3. To adjust the distance between the border and the edge of the page, select Options. Make your changes and select OK.
4. Select OK.

Insert a header or footer

Applies To

1. Go to Insert > Header or Footer.
2. Choose the header style you want to use.Tip: Some built-in header and footer designs include page numbers.
3. You can add or change the text in the header or footer. To edit an existing header or footer, double-click it. For more information on things you can do with headers, go to Edit your existing headers and footers.
4. To eliminate a header, for example, deleting the header on a title page, select it and then check the Different First Page box. 
5. Select Close Header and Footer or press Esc to exit.

To delete, select Insert > Header (or Footer) > Remove Header (or Remove Footer). 

A header or footer can contain text, information about the document, or even images. You can create one header or footer for the whole document, or have a different header or footer for the first page, odd. and even pages, or even multiple sections.

Note: The best way to work with headers and footers is in Word on a laptop or desktop computer, rather than in a web browser or mobile app.

Insert page numbers

Applies To

1. On the Insert tab, select   Page Number, and then choose the location and style you want.
2. If you don’t want a page number to appear on the first page, select Different First Page.
3. If you want numbering to start with 1 on the second page, go to Page Number > Format Page Numbers, and set Start at to 0.
4. When you’re done, select Close Header and Footer or press Esc.

Tip: To get back to a header or footer to make changes, double-click in the header or footer area.

A header or footer can contain text, information about the document, or even images. However, the most common elements in a header or footer are page numbers. Page numbers can be continuous though a document, all but the first page, or start over in each section.

Note: The best way to work with page numbers is in Word on a laptop or desktop computer, rather than in a web browser or mobile app.

Insert a page break

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1. Put your cursor where you want one page to end and the next to begin.
2. Go to Insert > Page Break.

Tip: If Word puts a new page in your document unexpectedly, it might be because of a page break. To view page breaks so that you can select and delete them, go to Home > Show/Hide .

Insert a table of contents

Applies To

A table of contents in Word is based on the headings in your document.

Create the table of contents

1. Put your cursor where you want to add the table of contents.
2. Go to References > Table of Contents. and choose an automatic style.
3. If you make changes to your document that affect the table of contents, update the table of contents by right-clicking the table of contents and choosing Update Field.

To update your table of contents manually, see Update a table of contents.

If you have missing entries

Missing entries often happen because headings aren’t formatted as headings.

1. For each heading that you want in the table of contents, select the heading text.
2. Go to Home > Styles, and then choose Heading 1.
3. Update your table of contents.

Update a table of contents

Applies To

1. On the References tab, select   Update Table.
2. Select one of the following:
   • Update page numbers only    This only updates the pages that the headings are on, and ignores any changes to the heading text.
   • Update entire table    This will reflect any updates to the heading text, as well as any page changes.
3. Select OK.

Note: Manually created tables (not created automatically from the headings), can’t be updated by Word. You’ll need to manually type your changes in the table of contents.

aders and footers in Word.