![]() ![]() Word Frontpage Design Css3 Expression Web. Creating excellent website buttons with minimum effort! Featured templates. 3D PowerPoint presentation (Hubble Telescope model) PowerPoint Classroom Timers (Clock) PowerPoint Weekly Meal Planner Excel PivotTable tutorial Excel. Front cover images in Microsoft Word report templates What's the best way to create a front cover for a report with full-page image and text overlaying the image? The requirements I'm thinking of the typical business or government report. The report will have: • a full-page image on the front cover, with text overlaying the image • no footer and no page number on the cover • page numbers, and possibly other text, in the footers of all other pages. My aim in building the template is to make it as easy as possible for authors to produce a report. They should be able to concentrate on their content, not spend time mucking around with Word silliness. So we want to make it easy for the author to add text to overlay a full-page image on the cover page. The plain-vanilla solution In lots of places you would read that the way to do this is to: • use Different First Page headers and footers • put the image in the first page header, and leave the (ordinary) header blank • leave the first page footer blank and put the page numbers in the (ordinary) footer. That plain-vanilla solution will work, if it's just you, and you have just one document to produce. But in corporate work, building a template to be used by dozens or hundreds of people, that method is not robust. The complications Before we know how to format the cover, we need to think about landscape pages. Because sooner or later, the author of a report will want a landscape page, and to do that the user must insert a section break and make that section landscape. The tricky issue is: what headers and footers will the first page of that landscape section have? There are two typical problems: • If the cover image is in the first page header, then by default the cover image will appear in the first page header when the user inserts a landscape section. • If we omit page numbers from the first page footer in section 1, the first landscape page will not show page numbers. Also not good. Therefore, we cannot rely on a single-section document with a Different First Page header or footer to hold the cover image and omit the page numbers. The options If we are to create a Word template for a report, with a front cover that has an image and no page numbers, then we have three options: • Don't use a Different First Page header or footer. ![]() ![]() Put the image on the face of the first page and cover up the page numbers, perhaps with a white borderless box sitting on top of the page number. • Insert a section break after the cover page. In section 1, put the cover image in the first page header, and leave the first page footer empty. In section 2, leave the header empty and put the page numbers in the footer. • Let the poor users figure out how to unlink headers and footers on their own. As a developer, I'm being paid to solve problems, not create them. Furthermore, businesses and government don't want to pay clever people to spend their time mucking around with cover images that appear on landscape pages for no apparent reason. Option 1: Insert the image into the face of the document and cover up the page numbers How Microsoft does it In Word 2007 and Word 2010 we have an Insert > Cover Page button. The new cover page feature is actually quite clever. There is much to be learned from how Microsoft has linked content controls to document properties so that I can change the cover page but retain my text. All the built-in cover pages have a hard page break (yuck!) at the end of every cover page. The cover pages use some floating tables, lots of floating text boxes and some images. It's very easy for the user to delete any image, shape or text box. It's very easy for the user to move an image, shape or text box or re-size it. And it's easy to change the column widths in tables.
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