Subtitles of the Movie

In this module we'll look at another item that our Document Elements or elements gallery make very easy and that is adding tables of contents and or Cover Pages. So even though we cover two topics here I'm combining them into a single module because once you open up the elements gallery it's pretty easy to figure out. The way to get started on this is that you type your document, remember just to simple use headings that's the easiest way to do this, certainly. For example you go to the toolbox and open up your Formatting Palette and make sure that your sections use the headings as you can see here. So I've used a section one heading and a section two heading or a heading level two and I've also got a heading one up here and another headings two and I think this is a just formatted text that I've done manually. But now watch how this all comes into play when I set an insertion point, I might want to make this on a new page of course and maybe on the first page that might be a blank page or I can use one of my Cover Pages and do this. But I'll just set my insertion point here for the sake of argument and I'll open up my elements gallery and now from my choices I do that. Now I've just created a table that is formatted like you see up here, table of contents, there are the headings sections here if I change my mind I can undo the changes certainly and choose a different type of Table of Contents and what's really nice about this is that if I go back in and someone makes edits to the sections or if I add sections or remove sections all I have to do is make sure to keep the headings intact. So this is a new section that I'm adding to my document here. Now all I do on my Table of Contents, let's say this is a month later, three months later, I just simply update the table. Notice what will happen to this section three heading here as I update the table. New section, so bingo, very easy to implement, very easy to update again all you have to remember is to use the section headings. Now what about Cover Pages, cover pages is just to the left of Table of Contents and you can do this, you can add a cover page to your document with just a few clicks here, you'll have several to choose form in your gallery. I'll choose this one, you have placeholder text if you use headers or possibly titles, it can grab that information and put it there but again you have textboxes that you can update and retype the text and your placeholder text so all of this can be easily replaced and edited and remember unlike some of your other text that you have in your document, the Cover Pages themselves aren't as easy to edit, you just have to for the most part if you want to make your life easy, you just pretty much take what's there and type the abstract document. So if you want to move it around that's fine but as far as really drawing new textboxes, again you could do that to a cover page but these are pages that are more or less built off of the publishing layout type of document. So you'll have like a publishing layout type of page inserted into your Word processing document which again can work out just fine. But my suggestion for best uses is to just take what is given to you if you change your mind just insert another cover page and use those placeholders that are given to you to update the text as appropriate and as a final note about your Cover Pages, remember that you can always change your mind very easily. If you start going down this path with a cover page and you kind of update the text and then think you know I want that one instead. Well go ahead just click around and you can preview them, you don't have to, you're not locked in stone with your cover page. You won't change anything else about the rest of the document or your Table of Contents certainly, all you have to do is make the desired change and then make a click in your cover page and you've totally changed the layout as you can see here.