Select and format the text “Civil Rights and Education for All” to: Title
Then, CENTER the title.
Set up a Title Page:
Place your cursor at the end of the title and INSERT a Page Break.
(This will move everything else down and leave the title on its own page)
Set up the document to create a Table of Contents:
Place your cursor at the top of page 2. Change the FONT SIZE to 18 and then type the words:
Table of Contents
Ad a space or two (Press “Enter”)
And INSERT a table of contents with page numbers.
At the end of the Table of Contents, place your cursor in front of the first heading: “Slavery and Education” and INSERT another Page Break so the Table of Contents is on its own page.
Click on “File”, then select “Page Setup” and change the Top, Bottom, Left and Right Margins on the page to .75
Scroll down to the bottom of the document. Place your cursor in front of the word “Citations” and INSERT a Page Break.
(This will make sure that the citations are always on their own page)
Scroll back up to the Table of Contents and click on it.
Use the “refresh” icon to update the table of contents now that Citations are on another page.
Scroll back up to the Table of Contents and click on it.
Use the “refresh” icon to update the table of contents now that Citations are on another page.
Insert a FOOTER to your document.
Headers & Footers are the very TOP and very BOTTOM of the page, and they REPEAT. Once you add one, it will appear on EVERY page.
In your footer, type the word “Page”, then a space, then Click on ‘Insert’ and select ‘Page number’, then select the one where the number is on the bottom, and the 1st page (title page) is different from the rest of the document.
(nobody puts page numbers on the title page!)
While your cursor is still in your footer, click on “Format, Page numbers” and set the “Start at…” at 1 instead of zero.
After the page number, type another space and type the word “of” and another space.
Then click on Insert, and select ‘Page count’.
It should look something like this now:
In the Footer, select the text
“Page [#] of [page count]”
Change the FONT size to 10
Then, align the text to the RIGHT of the page.
Then Italicize the text.
Once done, to get out of the Footer, simply click on an area of the page above it.
Timeline Table
Scroll and find the text for the timeline.
Place your cursor on the first line below it, INSERT a table 2 columns by 6 rows. (2x6)
Title the first column: “Date”
Title the 2nd column: “Event”
(note: you can use the “Tab” key to go from one cell to another.)
Select and drag OR ‘cut & paste’ the first date listed into the 2nd row of the 1st column, then select and drag the first description to the 2nd row of the 2nd column. Repeat for each date/event.
If you run out of rows, RIGHT click on the last row and select “Insert row below”
“Grab” the line between the columns,and drag the line to the left to make the first column narrower than the second column.
Scroll down to the “Citations” list, select it all, and format it to make it a bulleted list.
While still selected, use the “Format, Bullets & numbering”, “List options, More bullets” feature to Select any cool bullets you prefer.
Leaving the basic structure in place, make it better!