Add a cover page
Microsoft Word offers a gallery of convenient pre-designed cover pages to accent your resume . Choose a cover page and replace the sample text with your own.
On the Insert tab, in the Pages group, click Cover Page .
Click a cover page layout from the gallery of options.
After you insert a cover page, you can replace the sample text with your own text by clicking to select an area of the cover page, such as the title, and typing your text.
If you insert another cover page in the document, the new cover page will replace the first cover page you inserted.
To replace a cover page created in an earlier version of Word, you must delete the first cover page manually, and then add a cover page with a design from the Word gallery.
To delete a cover page inserted with Word, click the Insert tab, click Cover pages in the Pages group, and then click Remove Current Cover Page .
Note: Cover pages don't display page numbers.
Insert a cover page
On the Insert tab, click Cover Page .
To see how your cover page will look, on the View menu, select Print Layout or Web Layout .
To replace a cover page created in an earlier version of Word, you must delete the first cover page manually, and then add a new cover page with a design from the Word gallery.
Remove a cover page
Click the Insert tab, click Cover Page , and then click Remove Cover Page .
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How to Create a Cover Page in Microsoft Word (Built-In and Custom)
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- How to Create a Built-In Cover Page
How to Create a Custom Cover Page
- How to Delete a Cover Page
How to Remove Page Number Zero from a Cover Page
This tutorial is also available as a YouTube video showing all the steps in real time.
Watch more than 150 other writing-related software tutorials on my YouTube channel .
The images below are from Word for Microsoft 365 on a PC. These steps will also work in Word 2021, Word 2019, Word 2016, Word 2013, and Word 2010. However, your interface may look slightly different in those older versions of the software.
How to Create a Built-In Cover Page in Microsoft Word
You can quickly create a cover page using a built-in design.
- Select the Insert tab in the ribbon.
- Select Cover Page in the Pages group.
- Choose a built-in design from the gallery in the drop-down menu. (Hover over More Cover Pages from Office.com for additional options.)
- (Optional) To insert your cover page somewhere other than the top of your document, right-click the built-in design, and then choose a location from the shortcut menu.
- Place your cursor in the sample text, and then type your information.
Pro Tip: To delete a section of sample text, right-click it, and then select Remove Content Control from the shortcut menu.
The built-in cover page should now be part of your Word document.
You can create a custom cover page that can be reused in other Word documents.
- Open a blank document. ( Pro Tip: Press Ctrl + N to open a blank document.)
- Create your cover page, including images if necessary.
- Select all the text and images that should be included in the cover page.
- Select the Insert tab in the ribbon (see figure 1).
- Select Cover Page in the Pages group (see figure 2).
- Select Save Selection to Cover Page Gallery from the drop-down menu.
- Type a unique name into the Name text box in the Create New Building Block dialog box. (Cover pages are part of Word’s building block system of reusable content.)
- (Optional) Add additional information into the Description text box, if necessary.
Important Note: I strongly recommend leaving the default settings for the other options in this dialog box.
- Select the OK button.
Your custom cover page should now be added to the Cover Page Gallery.
- Close the document used to create your custom cover page. (You don’t have to save this document.)
- Select Save in the alert box asking if you want to save changes to Building Blocks.dotx.
- Open the document to which you want to add the custom cover page.
- Select the Insert tab (see figure 1).
- Select your custom cover page from the gallery.
Your custom cover page should now be added to your current document.
Pro Tip: How to Delete a Custom Cover Page from the Cover Page Gallery
- Right-click the custom cover page in the Cover Page drop-down menu, and then select Organize and Delete from the shortcut menu.
Caution: Your custom cover page will be automatically selected when the Building Blocks Organizer dialog box opens. Take care not to select another item.
- Select the Delete button in the Building Blocks Organizer dialog box.
- Select the Yes button in the question dialog box asking if you are sure you want to delete the selected building block.
- Select the Close button in the Building Blocks Organizer dialog box.
Your custom cover page should now be removed from the Cover Page Gallery.
How to Delete a Cover Page in Microsoft Word
The following steps show how to remove a cover page from an individual document.
- Select Remove Current Cover Page from the drop-down menu.
Your cover page should be removed from your document.
If your document has page numbers, the page number zero may show up unnecessarily on the cover page. The following steps show how to remove page number zero.
- Double-click the top of any page to open the Header & Footer tab.
- Select Different First Page in the Options group.
- Select the Close Header and Footer button.
The page number zero should now be removed from your cover page.
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Hayley Milliman is a former Teach for America teacher turned curriculum developer and writer. Over the past five years, she's written hundreds of articles on everything from Microsoft Office to education to history. She's co-author of the book Museum Hack's Guide to History's Fiercest Females . Read more...
A great cover page draws in readers. If you use Microsoft Word, you’re in luck, because Word has ready to use cover pages. But did you know that Word also lets you create custom cover pages? Here’s how to use both.
How to Add a Ready-to-Use Cover Page to Your Word Document
Word includes some cover page templates you can insert and then customize a bit if you need a quick cover page for your document.
To find them, switch over to the “Insert” tab on Word’s Ribbon and then click the “Cover Page” button. (If your window isn’t maximized, you might see a “Pages” button instead. Click that to show the “Cover Page” button.)
On the drop-down menu, click the cover page you want to use.
You can now add your document title, subtitle, date, and other information, as well as change the design up a bit if you want.
How to Create a Custom Cover Page in Microsoft Word
Creating a cover page from a template is easy enough, but if you don’t like any of the built-in designs, you can create your own. You can do this on an existing document, but it’s easiest to start with a blank document. We’re going to be saving the custom cover page so that you can quickly insert it into an existing document anyway.
You can create your cover page using pretty much any of Word’s tools. You can add a background color, picture, or texture . You can also position those elements how you want and even apply Word’s text wrapping tools to them. Make it look however you want.
When it comes to content, you have a couple of options. You can just type the text you want, but that wouldn’t make it much of a template unless you want the same text on the cover page every time you use it.
Instead, you can use Word’s Quick Parts feature to add document properties to the document. To do that, switch over to the “Insert” tab and then click the “Quick Parts” button.
On the drop-down menu, point to the “Document Property” submenu, and you’ll see a bunch of different properties you can insert into your document: author, title, company, publish date, and so on. Go ahead and insert whichever properties you want to appear on your title page.
When you’re done, you’ll have several fields on your page. When you insert your cover page into a document later on, those fields are populated with the actual properties from the document (and you can also edit them on the fly if you want).
They’re super plain to start with, but you can treat them like any other text in Word by applying styles and formatting, centering them on the page—whatever. Here, we’ve centered them on the page, applied the Title style to the title, shifted things down on the page a bit, and inserted a filigree illustration for a little flair. It’s not the prettiest cover page around, but it’s a good working example.
Now that we’ve got our cover page the way we want it, it’s time to create a cover page template out of it.
First, select everything in the document (that’s why we recommend starting this in a blank document) by pressing Ctrl+A. Next, head back to the “Insert” tab and then click that “Cover Page” button again.
This time, choose the “Save Selection to Cover Page Gallery” command from the drop-down menu.
In the window that opens, give your cover page a name and fill out a brief description if you want. Click “OK” when you’re done.
Now when you open the “Cover Page” drop-down menu in the future, you’ll see your new cover page template in the “General” section. Click to insert it just like you would one of Word’s built-in cover pages.
And that’s it. Creating custom cover pages for your document is pretty easy once you know where to look. While you’re at it, learn a few more quick tips on putting together professional-looking documents in Word .
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How to Make a Custom Cover Page in Microsoft Word
Learn how to make your own cover pages in Microsoft Word and create eye-catching documents.
We are talking about first impressions here. So, let's take on the first thing our eyes fall on—the cover page. The instructions below show you how to make a cover page in Word that's attractive and professional?
Note: You can use our instructions to create a cover page design for your school assignment. Before you add a cover page to your assignment, however, check for any specific requirements with your instructor.
What Is a Cover Page?
There are a lot of things that go into a professional Microsoft Word document . The cover page is the very first page of your document. Its purpose right at the beginning is to give the reader the "Big Idea" about the document.
The why and wherefore is communicated through a specific title, the author name, date, a one-liner on the subject, and any other bit of important information that you think is important for the reader.
What Does a Plain Cover Page Look Like?
Microsoft Word is used for writing serious research documents and school essays. Most of them go with monochromatic and simple cover pages. often dictated by strict style guides like the Chicago Manual of Style. Other non-academic cover pages are more casual.
But what if you want to create a cover page in Word that's way cooler than vanilla? Even if you don't have the chops for it? Design your own cover page with the easy tools on Microsoft Word and save it as your own cover page template.
For an academic assignment, do check with your instructor before using a cover page.
How to Make an Attractive Cover Page
Microsoft Word makes it painless to create a business report cover page or a title page for an essay. The Microsoft Office suite comes with a few well-designed cover pages that you can re-purpose for your document. There's a good variety to choose from.
To make a cover page, follow these steps:
- Open a new Word document.
- Click on the Insert menu on the ribbon.
- The dropdown for Cover Page is the first feature you will spot on the menu (under Pages). Click on tiny arrow next to it and open the inbuilt gallery of templates.
- Pick one from the 16 pre-formatted templates and three more on Office.com.
- Select the one you like and click on it.
The cover page appears at the beginning of the document by default. But to place it in any other location, right-click on the cover page thumbnail in the gallery and select from the options given. Though, I am not sure why you would want to!
Customize Individual Fields
Click on each pre-formatted field (the square brackets) and the whole thing gets highlighted with a blue field label on top. Type in your version for the given field. The author name might appear by default if the Microsoft Office installation is in your name.
Place the common information in Quick Parts and you don't have to bother with typing them again and again.
Change the date fields with the dropdown arrow and select a date from a calendar. You can format all fields just like normal text.
You can easily edit graphical cover page elements like any other image. Just click on the graphic to display the Drawing Tools and Picture Tools menus on the Ribbon.
Change the Cover Page Design on the Fly
Customizing a pre-formatted cover page is a piece of cake. The templates consist of formatted controls and graphic boxes that come in different color themes. So, you can change any part of the template on the fly.
Notice a picture on the cover page template? Maybe, you would like to swap it out with a logo or another more appropriate image. Just right-click on the picture and click Change Picture in the context menu.
Changed your mind about the cover page design? While working on one cover page, you can change it for another cover page by selecting a new template from the dropdown. The new template retains the field entries.
Note: To replace a cover page created in an older version of Microsoft Word, you must delete the first cover page manually, and then add a new design from the cover page gallery.
Click on Save to finalize the cover page as a document.
If you would like to save the cover page for later use in another document, select the entire cover page.
Click on Insert > Cover Page > Save Selection to Cover Page Gallery . You can use the same menu to remove a selected cover page from the gallery.
How to Make a Cover Page in Microsoft Word
Word templates are a time-saving solution, but they don't allow your personality to shine through. To add a personal touch, you should put in a bit more effort and make a cover page from scratch and put some planning into it.
You have all the image editing tools in Microsoft Word at your disposal. When you can design your own logo in Microsoft Word , a cover page is less of a chore. Borrow or steal ideas from the process.
The screenshot below displays a custom cover page I created in Microsoft Word from scratch. I used a few basic Shapes to create the design and formatted them with color.
Save Your Custom Template
Complete your cover page design on a fresh Microsoft Word document. Save this document as a Microsoft Word template ( File > Save As > Microsoft Word Template ) in a location of your choice.
Now, the next steps are about adding your own cover page to the default choices under the Insert menu. Follow these steps:
Press Ctrl + A to select the entire page.
Add these selections to the Quick Parts gallery. Go to Ribbon > Insert > Quick Parts (the Text Group). Select Save Selection to Quick Part Gallery… from the dropdown.
Enter the details in the dialog for a new Building Block . Building blocks are reusable Microsoft Word elements that you can add to any of the galleries available in Word. This is what the dialog box looks like:
- Name: Give the cover page a Name.
- Gallery: Choose "Cover Pages" from the dropdown.
- Category: Choose a category. For better organization, make a new category.
- Save in: Save it in your template or in the building block. When saved as a building block, you can use it in any Word document without opening the template.
Click OK and close the Building Block dialog box. Go to the Insert menu and check your new cover page template.
Create Cover Pages With Style
A cover page is one of the best ways to stylize your document. But is it one of the more underused features of Microsoft Word ? A Microsoft Word document is often bland. Consider the merits:
- A cover page gives the reader a quick visual of the content inside.
- Save and re-use a generic company-wide cover page in the gallery.
- Convert a document with a cover page to PDF with one button and send it to any device.
Most of us don't commonly employ a cover page with a document. If you want to, try free Microsoft Word cover templates and see if they make your document more eye-catching. Then, you can start making your own designs for the front page of a document.
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How to Add a Cover Page in Microsoft Word Document?
- Last Updated : 21 Jul, 2021
Microsoft Word is a software tool that makes our document more attractive and beautiful with the help of different types of fonts, colors, styles, animations, 3D models, graphs, charts, page layout, and many more within a very small span of time. It is developed by the Microsoft corporations in 1983. It is the best platform for writing documents, projects, letters, notes, assignments, etc. It has special features like editing, deleting, correcting, and formatting your file in very little time. Almost it is used in all fields like business, schools, offices preferred this software to write their article, office letters, documents, etc.
Features of MS Word:
- Images: MS Word provides the inserting of various images in our document.
- Videos: We can insert videos in our document
- Fonts Styles: It has a wide range of font styles for our text.
- Colors: It also has different types of colors to make our document more attractive.
- Page number and size: You can set the size of the page of your document
- WordArt: It provides various writing styles for our documents.
- Tables: Tables in MS Word are used to represent data in Tabular form
- Graph and Charts: These are used to represent statistical data
- Animations and Designs: MS Word allows the creation of Animations and designs as per user needs
- Page border/color: MS Word allows adding borders and colors to pages.
What is a cover page in MS Word?
Microsoft Word has a special feature called a cover page. The cover page represents the main highlighted part of your document that contains the document title, pictures, company logo, or information about the document file, etc. It is the first thing when a reader will see it. Cover pages make your document more attractive. Adding a cover page is a great way to represent your document in an official manner. So you should add a cover page to your document.
You can also add project images as a background of your cover page and many more. Microsoft Word has a large number of different pre-designed cover pages available in MS Word.
Steps to Add Cover Page in MS Word:
Step 1: On the navigation menu select the insert option.
Step 2: Select the cover page from the left side of the navigation menu as shown:
Step 3: A cover page menu will open where you can select different types of cover pages for your document.
Step 4: Now select cover page format as per your choice or requirement.
Some different types of cover pages are:
Step 5: You can also select more cover pages from office.com as shown:
Finally, the cover page is added to the document.
Steps to Remove Cover Page in MS Word:
Step 2: Select cover page from the left side of the navigation menu.
Step 3: Now click on the remove current cover page option as shown:
Finally, the cover page will be removed from your document.
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How to add a Custom Cover Page to a Microsoft Word Document
Adding a cover page to the start of your Word Document is a great way to set the tone for your document. The cover page is the first thing your reader will see and should outline the documents title, author, maybe the date it was written or other key information that a reader may find useful to view at a glance before they dive into the rest of the document.
Microsoft Word does have a large number of pre-designed cover page options available. We wrote a post on how to insert there here.
If you are looking for something a bit fancy, or unique, creating your own custom cover page may be just what you need.
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Some companies require brand specific cover pages, you may need to follow brand guidelines with logo placements, colours and layouts in which case a customised cover page is perfect for you.
In this article, we will outline how to insert and create a custom cover page to the start of your Microsoft Word Document before leaving you to make it look picture perfect.
Creating a Custom Cover Page in Microsoft Word
- Click Insert
- Click Pages
- Click Cover Page
- Select a Cover Page template that best suits the cover page design you would like on your document
- Customise each text box by clicking the default text and typing
- Customise the size and location of shapes by clicking the feature and dragging it across the screen
- Insert custom images by clicking Pictures
- Search for a suitable icon
- Click the icon
- Press insert
- Place your cursor where you would like the shape to be inserted
- Select the shape you want to insert
With so many different ways to customise a cover page, Microsoft has opened the doors for you to get creative and use text, images, photos, shapes and layout to design a cover page to suit your document perfectly.
On the hunt for an easier way to manage version control?
If you’re collaborating on Microsoft Word Documents and need to keep track of each new version along the way, it is likely that you (like so many of us) have a messy shared drive full of cluttered, badly named versions and no real way of knowing which one if the most recent and who made changes to what.
The endless scrolling through what feeling like 500 versions to figure out if Report_v9_edited_final_FINALFINAL_2 is actually the most recent version.
Is it the final one? Let’s say it is, now you have added your edits and are ready to save a new version, do you just add a _updated onto the end of the already long file name, or the current date – hoping no body else edits and saves on the same day?
Its a mind-field out there!
Then just to add another hidden bomb to the field, there is always one person in the team that saves a version in a different spot and it’s near impossible to figure out where it went.
Collaborating in Word can be challenging, with Version control the number one frustration for most small to large corporations who collaborate regularly and do not have an automatic version control tool on hand.
A tool that manages version control for you, such as Simul Docs will take all of the file naming and searching out of your job description leaving you to spend more time to edit.
Simul Docs manages version control for you. When you open a new file, Simul will save it as file 0.0.1, then John from Marketing opens your file, makes some changes and presses save – this becomes file 0.0.2 and so on.
It’s version control that makes sense.
Then you want to go back and see what changes John has made over the course of the documents life. Well that’s easy, because Simul not only tracks the versions for you with the edits saved in each it places the authors name next to the document so you know who owns which version at a glance.
So now it’s your turn to edit the Word Document, which one is the most recent one?
Simul lists all of the versions in an easy to view ‘versions list’ at the side of your dashboard. The most recent version will be listed at the top, with the highest version number, e.g 0.0.5.
You can open version 0.0.5 at the click of a button, edit it directly in Simul or open it in Microsoft Word, depending on which interface you personally prefer working within.
Now that you are editing away, Simul also knows that you are going to want your changes tracked, so tracked changes are automatic, every, single, time you open the document. Because collaborating can be stressful enough without having to remember to turn on tracked changes or save the document as a new version before you start editing to avoid saving over the last file.
So now you’ve made your edits, with all of your changes tracked (thanks Simul!) and are ready to press save and share your file and let your team know you have finished. Simul has you covered again – when you press save Simul automatically sends an email to the document owner letting them know a new version is available for their review.
If you did want to share your document directly, Simul allows you to share via a directly link, email or to any of the popular cloud storage systems such as Dropbox, GoogleDrive, OneDrive and more.
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A Word cover page introduces the document with a title, an image or both, providing relevant information about the document. For example, a periodic report on business development may open with a cover page that includes your company logo. Word treats the cover much as it does any page, and offers templates for the cover's design. Word also sets the cover apart by excluding the header and footer from it, and by not including it in the page numbering scheme.
Click "Insert" in the Word ribbon.
Click "Cover Page" in the Pages group to open a drop-down menu.
Click a template from the menu to insert a cover page. Templates include Conservative, which contains no images but includes fields for the document's title, subtitle and abstract, and Perspective, which positions the title and an angled photo over a colored sheet. Other templates include background images, tiles and borders.
Remove unwanted elements from your cover. For example, to remove an image background, click it and press "backspace."
Type new text into the cover page, replacing fields such as "[Type the document subtitle]" with actual content.
Format the text or add images as you would with any page.
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How to Add Cover Page in Microsoft Word Documents?
We all use Microsoft Word for creating personal and office documents. However, only few of us know and use simple features that can change the appeal of your document. Adding cover page is one such a useful feature you can use with Word for Windows and Mac. In this article, i will go through how to create cover page from pre-defined templates, creating your custom template and editing its content.
Cover Page in Word
Informal documents do not need a cover page. Probably you may waste the time to add a cover page for sending an instructional document to your users. However, cover page makes sense in the following situations especially when you have lengthy document:
- Sending a project proposal document to your client.
- Preparing an official document for your manager.
- Creating an eBook which needs a beautiful cover page.
In addition, sometime a small document with few pages like resume can also have a neat cover page. Here, i will explain how to add cover page in Word with Microsoft 365 version. The procedure is same in previous Word versions like 2019, 2016, etc.
Adding Cover Page in Word for Windows
Though you can create a cover page by adding different elements, the easy way is to insert from one of the existing templates.
- Launch Word app and open the document you want to add a cover page.
- Go to “Insert” tab and click on “Cover Page” option. This is available under “Pages” group showing extreme left in the ribbon.
- You can see the long list of template cover pages.
- Click on the one you like to insert it in your document.
Word for Windows version also comes with few online cover page templates from Office.com. You can view these templates by clicking on “More Cover Pages from Office.com” option under “Cover Page” menu.
Adding Cover Page in Word for Mac
The procedure is same in Word for Mac .
- When you in the document, go to “Insert” menu from the ribbon. Remember, Mac will always have a top menu for all applications. You should not use the “Insert” menu from the top bar, instead select it from the ribbon.
- Click on the “Pages” option showing at extreme left end and select “Cover Page”.
- You will find a list of predefined cover page templates and click on the one you like to insert in your document.
Editing Cover Page in Word
Now that you know how to add a cover page, the next step is to edit the template content and use your own.
- If your cover page has a picture, right click on it. Select “Change Picture” option from the context menu and upload your own image. You can also use free stock images and icons from the free library available as part of Microsoft 365 subscription plan.
- The placeholder text content will show within square brackets. Click on it and update the content with your own text. You may also need to change heading, author name and company name details.
- If you do not want an item on the cover page, simply select the item, and press the delete button to get rid of it. Remember, for some items like author name you need to select the field label and delete it. Otherwise, deleting the content inside the field will show a blank box.
Saving Custom Templates
Cover page templates in Word contains multiple fields having rigid fixed position on the layout. You may not rearrange the fields easily and move them to different place. The problem comes when you have to reuse the same template on multiple documents. It will be tedious task to repeat the same customizations for each document. You can handle this problem in few ways.
- Select existing template and customize it as per your need. After that save this template by selecting “Save Selection to Cover Page Gallery…” option available under “Cover Page” menu. This menu item will show as frozen state when you are inserting a new cover page. however, it will change to active state when you click on the cover page and navigate the menu. It will open “Create New Building Block” dialog box where you can provide necessary details and save the template. Once saved, you can find it under the dropdown gallery of “Cover Page” menu so that you can insert in any of your document.
- Manually create a cover page and add it to the gallery by using Quick Parts. Check out our article on how to use Quick Parts to create reusable templates in Word .
Deleting or Replacing Cover Page
Word will always insert a cover page as a first page in your document regardless of current cursor position. If you want to delete the cover page, simply go to “Cover Page” menu item. Click on the “Remove Current Cover Page” option in Windows. You will the option is showing as “Remove Cover Page” in Word for Mac.
Similarly, you may messed up the content while editing your cover page. Do not worry, simply select same or another template from the gallery. This will replace your current cover page and an afresh template.
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