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breaks are yesterday's tool for separating two pages. Meet your new
best friend: section breaks! Section breaks are at the heart of this
method of pagination for a term paper. They will not only allow you
to easily adjust your margins, but, in combination with headers and
footers, will allow you to insert page numbers a la Kate.
So let's get right to it ...
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Go
to the menu bar and press Insert,
and then Break.
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In
the Break dialog window under Section break types
press Next page and then click
on
OK.
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Your first page will look as follows:
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So
what have we done so far ... well, you have divided your document
into two sections. That means that your document now is actually
two documents in one. The first section can be formatted anyway
you want it without affecting the other sections. Your
title page, that is section one, needs a 3" top margin so go ahead, set the margins ...
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First of all position your cursor before (to the left of) the
Section Break marker on the first
page.
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Now, go
to the menu bar and press File,
and then Page Setup.
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In
the dialog window under Margins set
the Top margin to
3" and the
Bottom margin to
1.6". Now you might be asking
yourself why should I set the bottom margin to 1.6" when the
bottom line of my title page should be at 2". What happens when
you set the bottom margin at 2", your bottom line will be at
2.3" from the bottom; setting it at 1.6" allows you to have a
bottom line 1.9" from the bottom, which is a lot closer to the
required 2".
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Now finish off your title page by putting all the information
required on it. I suggest that you set this page to be double
spaced. To do this go to the menu bar and press
Format, and then
Paragraph. In the dialog window
under Spacing set the
Line Spacing to
Double. Now insert all the
required information
remembering that the A Paper line needs to be at the center of
the page: that is theoretically at 5.5", but practically at
5.6".
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Congratulations you are now finished with your Title Page!
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