#FREE DOWNLOADABLE TEMPLATES FOR WORD DOWNLOAD#
You can use any template you download as-is, or you can customize it to meet your needs. Templates can include calendars, business cards, letters, cards, brochures, newsletters, resumes, and much more. Format the font size and type, or stick with the document defaults.įinally, save the file as a template: In Word 2003, click File > Save As, give the template a name such as "Two-column layout," choose a location for the file (more on this below), select Document Template (*.dot) in the Save as Type drop-down menu, and click Save. You can download free, pre-built document templates with useful and creative themes from Office when you click File > New in your Office app. Paste in more dummy text by typing =rand( p, s) (where "p" is the number of paragraphs and "s" is the number of sentences) and pressing Enter. (Note that this important step was inadvertently excluded from the original version of the tip my apologies.) In Word 2007, click the Page Layout tab on the ribbon and click Columns > Two. In Word 2003, click Format > Columns and choose the two-column icon under Presets. In Word 2007, click the Page Layout tab, choose Breaks in the Page Setup section, and click Continuous in the drop-down menu.Īdd a continuous section break to your two-column Word template via the Page Layout tab.
In Word 2003, click Insert > Break > Continuous > OK. Now press Enter to move the cursor to a new line. This is supposed to be a "summary."Ĭhoose a font type and size for the summary, which will appear in a single column. The quick way to do so is to type =rand( p, s) (where "p" is the number of paragraphs and "s" is the number of sentences) and press Enter. On the next line, enter dummy text to represent the document summary. To create this template, open a new document, type a dummy document title on the first line, choose a font type and size (I used 12-point bold lucida sans, for example), and center the line by choosing the appropriate icon in the formatting section of Word 2003's standard toolbar and under the Home tab on Word 2007's ribbon. All I had done was create a Word template with a simple two-column layout for long text sections. When we were done, several of my co-workers commented on how nicely the reports were laid out.
Each report was from three to eight pages long, and most of them included at least one table or chart. I recently finished working on a project that generated a dozen separate reports published together in a single booklet.