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.
