NOTE: Once you save the Word document you cannot delete the built-in sidebar since it is not really a part of the Word document but it is a “standalone supplement” to it. Play with it until you feel like you’ve got the right look. Press Alt-F11 to return to the Word document, then click the Design button in the Controls group of the Developer tab. Sky is the limit to give the SIDEBAR exactly the look you like. (7) Turn off your gridlines and here is your new and improved document: (6) Enter your text both into the SIDEBAR and also the regular body text area on the right. The default rendering for content controls in Word 2013 is to preserve the look of content controls as they appear in Word 2007 and Word 2010 that is, as a bounding box. (5) Change the background color, perspective, and other graphic features of your SIDEBAR text box by trying out many alternatives offered by MS Word’s formatting buttons and drop0-down menus: You can also set the display mode for a content control by using the Word 2013 object model (discussed later in New Word 2013 content control object model members). (4) Pull the top and bottom of the text bar to make sure it fits the top and bottom of the grid:
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Below is a guide of how you add the developer tab to the main menu in Word (for fast access to Design Mode) and also a guide for how to enter Design Mode. To work with Content Types in NamicSoft you do need to enter the so called Design Mode in Word. (3) Click and select ALPHABET SIDEBAR text box (my personal preference) or any other sidebar text box you like. Enter Design Mode (Microsoft Word) < Back. (2) Go to the INSERT tab and select TEXT BOX to display the pre-set text box designs:
This will help you align the SIDEBAR more easily. OPTIONAL STEP: Turn on your gridlines by selecting the GRIDLINES check-box in the VIEW tab. In fact, the printed document is smaller than the original and all margins are wrong. (1) Create a MS Word 2007 or 2010 document. Recently, I upgraded a clients computer from Office 2003 to Office 2013 and the following strange problem is occurred when printing from Word 2013: The print Preview looks OK, but the printer output is different and wrong. MS Word 2007 and MS Word 2010 come with a number of impressive page layout features that perhaps you generally don’t expect from Word since it’s not known as a “page layout application” (like InDesign, QuarkXpress, or PageMaker).įor example, did you know how easy it is to add a very stylish SIDEBAR to your technical document by using MS Word 2007 or MS Word 2010?