To center a page from top to bottom in a Word document, you use a page-level format. Avoid using multiple paragraphs to manually center a page. Center titles to the middle of a page. Separate the page into its own section for a professional presentation.
- [Instructor] Here you see a document zoomed out … to show the title page centered in the worse possible way. … Now, I'm going to activate the show-hide feature here … on the home tab, this icon here. … And you can see the enter key presses. … And zoom in a bit. … These paragraphs that were added to center … the title on the page. … This technique works but it's sloppy and it can lead … to trouble later. … Here's another example with paragraphs added … to center the title and a hard page break to keep … the title on its own page. … This approach is only marginally better but it's fixable. … And you start by removing everything but the title. … So that would be all these paragraphs. … Select them and delete them. … And delete the hard page break as well. … Now, at the end of the title paragraph … add a new page section break so the cursor's right here. … And from the layout tab, choose breaks, … section break, next page. … And I'll clean up this new line there. … Now, back on the first page you see the title …
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