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Accessing the headers and footers

Any other feedback? How can we improve it? Send No thanks. Thank you for your feedback! It sounds like it might be helpful to connect you to one of our Office support agents. Contact Support. As every college student knows, you can make a term paper longer by widening the margins.

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Wide margins leave less room for text and push text onto subsequent pages, making the term paper longer and making the student seem a little smarter than he or she really is. The Mirrored option is for documents that will be bound and on which text will be printed on both sides of the page.

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The page margins on the binding side of the page are made wider to accommodate the binding. To lay out pages in different ways in a document, divide the document into sections.

Add and format a new section

For example, to make page margins wider in the first four pages of a document, create a section for the first four pages and apply margin commands to the first section only. Layout commands in Word for the iPad apply to the entire document or, if the document is divided into sections, the section where the cursor is when you give a layout command. Create a section by inserting a section break where you want the new section to begin. Section breaks occur at the top of pages.

Follow these steps to insert a section break and create a new section:.

It almost goes without saying, but a document more than a few pages long needs page numbers. Say you have a five-page document and you want page two moved to the end. To cut and paste, you can use the Edit button in the menu bar or right-click and use the context menu.

Pages for Mac: Add and remove headers and footers in a Pages document

Like with rearranging pages, duplicating a page in a Page Layout document is much easier than it is in a word-processing document. Word-processing documents use Sections and by default, the document is all one Section unless you specifically add more. If you have the Thumbnails sidebar open, you can right-click or hold Control and click, then pick Duplicate from the context menu. Or, right-click or hold Control and click, then pick Duplicate from the context menu. Removing a single page from a document is, once again, simpler with a Page Layout document than a word-processing document.

But of course, it can be done. If you have spaces remaining on your page, you may have to hit Delete a few times.