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It is common for an instructor to ask you to add a page number along with your last name to the header of your papers. The header is a section of the page located in the top margin area. To add a page number to this area Word has a function available on the Insert tab to do just that.
Once you click on the Page Number button, a new menu will open up with the different options for your page numbers.
Word has several different built in options for page numbers including placing the number at the top of the page or placing the number at the bottom of the page and then aligning with the left, right, or center. Word also has other options available, but these are the most commonly used ones.
After selecting the type of page number you want Word will automatically add page numbers to your document.
Now you should be in the header with the page number highlighted. Your menu bar should also be in the Header & Footer Tools Design tab. From this menu you have access to the design options for your header and footer.
If your instructor does not want the first page of your paper to be number, you can check the box for Different First page. This will remove the page number from page 1.
To add additional information to your header or footer, you can double click near a page number to get back into the header/footer. You can now add additional information such as your name or the date.
If you are taking a class in sociology, psychology, medicine, or social work then you will most likely be writing papers in the American Psychological Association (APA) style. One of the hardest things to format in this style is the header because it is different on page 1. The following steps should help you to format your header correctly.
To start you need to get into the head section of the first page of your paper. To do this you can either double click in the top margin of your paper, or you can click on the Insert tab and then click the Header button and then the Edit Header option.
Now check the Different First Page box.
In the header of the first page type: 'Running head:' followed by the title in ALL CAPS.
Once you have your title typed, hit the Tab key twice to put you in the right corner. Now click the Page Number button, then select the Current Position option, and finally click the Plain Number option to add the page number to page 1.
Your first page is now done, and it is time to add the head and page numbers to the rest of your paper. This is done just like you did for page 1, the only difference is that you do not type 'Running head' before your title into the header of page 2.
Microsoft Word has several built in options for creating an outline. If fact, if you were to start typing one odds are pretty good that Word would attempt to format the outline automatically. If you wish to choose which outlining method is used, or to define your own, you can use the options under the Multilevel List button on the Home tab.
If you have a very long quote in a paper, then you usually have to format it differently than a short quote. Normally long quotes are indented a half an inch from the left margin. To create this indentation, Word has an indent function on the Page Layout tab.
After typing the quote, highlight the text to be indented, then use the left indent function to adjust the indent of your quote.
