1. Page Setup
MOAC Lesson 5

2. Page Layout Tab
Contains commands that help to format the entire document
Margins
Orientation
Columns
Hyphenation
Breaks

3. Orientation Refers to the two page layout positions of a document
Portrait: (default) taller than wide
Landscape: wider than tall
Page Layout > Orientation

4. Margins The amount of space around the edge of a document
Default margins: 1” top, bottom, left, and right
Has several preset settings to choose from:
Normal
Narrow
Moderate
Wide
Mirrored
Office 2003 Default

5. Paper Size
Allows the user to change the size of the paper that the document will be printed on
Page Layout > Page Setup > Size
Can change the size to several different options:
Legal
Statement
Executive
Etc.

6. Breaks
Automatic Page Break: Word inserts another page when the previous page is full
Manual Page Break – Inserts a page break at your cursor
Page Layout > Page Setup Group > Breaks
Control + Return/Enter
Appears as a dotted line with the word Page Break when non-printing characters are displayed
Column Break: inserts a break at the cursor that the text after the cursor flows into the next column
Control + Shift + Enter

7. Breaks
Text Wrapping: Separates the text around objects on a web page, such as caption text from body text

8. Section Breaks
Section Break: used to create layout or formatting changes in a portion of a document
Continuous Section Break: used to create a new section on the same page as the previous section
Often used to balance columns by placing a continuous section break at the end of the columns
Next Page Section Break: Inserts a section break and starts the new section on the next page
Even Page: Inserts a section break and starts the new section on the next even-numbered page
Odd Page Section Break: Inserts a section break and starts the new section on the next odd-numbered page

9. Hyphenation
(nonbreaking space) Used when a part of a word appears at the end of a line and the second part of the word appears at the beginning of the beginning of the text line
Used to separate syllables
Join words
Break single words into one word
Default: set to None
Manual hyphenation: automatically stops at a word and asks you to decide where to hyphenate
Page Layout > Page Setup > Hyphenation

10. Controlling Pagination
Allows you to keep lines together on the same page
Example: A paragraph together on the same page
Page Layout > Paragraph > Paragraph Dialog Box > Line and Page Breaks Tab
Keep with Next: Allows you to keep multiple paragraphs on one page without any page breaks

11. Line Numbers Places a number beside each line for reference purposes
Page Layout Ribbon

12. Widow/Orphan control Widow/Orphan Control: Turned on by default
Widow – last line of a paragraph that appears at the top of the second page on a line by itself
Orphan – first line of a paragraph that appears at the bottom of a page by itself
Anytime a person presses the Enter key, Word considers it a paragraph
Even if it is only a title or a heading

13. Columns
Vertical blocks of text in which text flows from the bottom of one column to the top of the next column
Places multiple columns in a document
Default is 1 column
Default spacing between multiple columns is 0.5”
Page Layout > Columns

14. Source
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2014). Microsoft Official Academic Course Microsoft Word 2013, Exam