Page Formatting

Standard 9:  Craft documents using word processing program features and methods such as.... margins, headers, footers, page numbers, and footnotes

Why is formatting applied to fonts?
What documents are commonly used in a business setting?
What are appropriate formatting guidelines for business documents and why is formatting important?
Which business document is the most appropriate means of communication in a given business situation and why?


Page Formatting is the arrangement of text on a page.  The arrangement of text on a page is the culmination of text and paragraph formatting that presents the final picture and communicates a message to the reader.

• Margin - the amount of white space around the sides of a document
• Page orientation - landscape (wider than tall) or portrait (taller than wide)
• Headers and footers add global information to a document such as page numbers and document titles
• Page breaks may be manual or automatic and are used to manage content on a page
• soft page break occurs automatically through word wrap feature of the word processing software and text is simply continued to the next page when the space on the previous page is exhausted
• hard page break is performed manually when a new page is needed for a break or change in content
• Columns are used to format text for documents such as newspapers and newsletters
• Borders are used in page formatting to add lines around text or graphic images

Click on the link for Guided Practice - Page Formatting.  Download the doc and enable editing to make changes. 

Now, do you think you can do it on your own?  Click on the Independent Practice - Page Formatting  Download the document and enable editing to make changes.  When finished, upload the doc to your drive and share with me at julie6davis@gmail.com.