You can insert built-in or custom fields in Word documents to display variable content that will change when you update the fields. Under Page numbering, select Start at and use the controls to select “i.” Click OK.Insert Fields in a Microsoft Word Document to Display Variable Contentīy Avantix Learning Team | Updated January 10, 2021Īpplies to: Microsoft ® Word ® 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 or 365 (Windows) For a table of contents, use lowercase Roman numerals. In the Page Number Format dialog box, shown in Figure 2-48, select the number format. Then on the Header and Footer toolbar, click the Insert Page Number button. On the Formatting toolbar, click the Right Alignment button. Scroll down and click within the footer box. In the Preview section, select This point forward. Use the controls to specify the distance from the edge of the paper (see Figure 2-47). Click the Page Setup button on the Header and Footer toolbar. To number the table of contents, place your cursor at the top of the first page. However, if the table of contents runs over one page, you may want to number it. You should include page numbers in the footer to ensure that the business plan can be reordered easily should someone separate the pages. While you can use these sections to list important information, use them sparingly. You should add a header and/or footer to your business plan. Enter the caption text in the box labeled Caption. In the Label box, select the type of label, as shown in Figure 2-46. The caption helps you identify the table when you refer to it in your business plan. Word returns you to your document and updates the chart automatically.Īs with tables, you may want to add a caption to your chart. Simply select the type of chart you would like and click OK. The Chart Type dialog box provides you with a number of different chart styles, as you see in Figure 2-39. The default chart type is a column chart. These menus will help you manipulate your chart. Additionally, Word adds two new menus, Data and Chart, to the menubar, as shown in Figure 2-38. Word launches Microsoft Graph, which automatically creates a chart based on your table.
Once you have selected the entire table, click Insert Picture Chart. To create a chart based on table data, select the chart by clicking inside it. The easiest way to create a chart in your business plan is to use existing data that is contained within a table in your document. The numbering updates automatically if you add more captions or rearrange captioned objects. In the Label box, select the type of label.
You may want to add a caption to your table. When you’re done, click OK and close the Table AutoFormat dialog box. Then use the controls to change the table formats. In the Modify Style dialog box, enter a new name for the table style, as shown in Figure 2-36. In the Table AutoFormat dialog box, click Modify. To change a table that you’ve AutoFormatted, click in the table. In the Patterns sections, you can select a shading pattern. Select the color you would like to apply from the color chart. To specify shading, open the Shading tab (see Figure 2-35). Or, you can click in the diagram on the right to specify where you want the borders to appear, as shown in Figure 2-34. That will apply the border style you choose to specific areas of the table. On the Borders tab, select the border style, color, and width. If you want to add borders or shading to cells, click the Borders and Shading button. C H A P T E R 2 ■ C R E A T I N G A B U S I N E S S P L A N