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Change page layout

Change page layout

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Change page layout

- Well just as we can apply formatting to text and paragraphs in a word document, we can also use page formatting to make changes to the look and feel of our document. That's going to be our focus in this chapter, beginning with some of the layout options we have at our disposal. We'll continue working with our Tech Connect Document 0501, if you're catching up. But just before we do, some of the page layout options you might select will typically be done before you start creating your document that can be applied after. We'll do that in a moment with this document, but let's start with a new fresh document first. Go up to file, down to new, click there, and choose blank document. This is going to create a blank document using the default settings. Right now, you can see my zoom level is set to 60, I'm looking at an 8 1/2" X 11" sheet of paper here, that's the default, and the orientation is longer vertically than it is across, known as portrait orientation, all of which can be…

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