Activity Overview
There are many reasons why you may want to change the layout or orientation of your page. Text may fit better or graphics may be more appealing to the eye if your page is printed in landscape. Similarly, centering text vertically on the page may also add to its appearance. Inevitable, there will be times when you will need to alter the page setup in Word. In this activity, you will vertically and horizontally center some song lyrics in a document.
New Skills
In this activity, you will practice how to:
- Format page orientation.
- Vertically center align text on a page.
- Insert and format page borders.
- Insert a clip art image and change text wrapping of the image.
Lesson
- Open the LYRICS.docx file.
- Change the page orientation to landscape.
- Change the vertical alignment of the page to center.
- Add a line style page border; change the color and width of the line.
- Select all text and change font and font size as you wish.
- Select the title and artist and apply bold.
- Insert an appropriate clip art image in the center below the song lyrics.
- Change the text wrapping of the image to In Front of Text.
- Insert a header: Name Lyrics Date
- Save the document as LYRICS.
- Optional: Print the document for review.