Step-by-Step Guide to Create Stunning Word Cover Pages Quickly

When it comes to making your reports or essays visually appealing, the Word cover page plays a crucial role. It's the first impression that captivates the reader's attention. Have you mastered the art of crafting beautiful cover frames and page borders in Word? If not, let's explore how to create Word cover pages in the article below!

Creating Cover Frames in Word Using Built-In Tools

The cover frame in Word sets the tone for your report. To make your report look polished and engaging, it's essential to understand how to create Word covers and, particularly, how to embellish cover frames and borders in Word. Let's dive into making cover frames using the built-in tools below:

On the toolbar, select the Design tab => choose Page Borders.

Once the Page Borders dialog box appears, proceed to set up the cover frame as follows:

• Under Setting: choose Box to create a border for the document page
• Under Art: select the frame style, border for the cover page in Word cover creation.
• Under Width: choose the thickness of the newly created border.
• Under Color: select a new color for the border. If not selected, the system will default the border color to black.

Once you've filled in all the required details, click on Options and fill in the blank:

• Under Margin: choose the margin spacing.
• Under Measure from: select the spacing between margins and text, and borders.

Click OK to finish creating a beautiful Word cover. You can now start inserting content into the newly created cover page.

This method of creating Word covers applies to Word 2016 and above. For older versions of Word, the process may vary slightly in certain steps. However, when executing, it's advisable to closely follow the instructions provided above for easy implementation.

Guide on creating stunning Word covers using Insert Shapes tool

In addition to creating report covers using the aforementioned tools, users can also utilize Insert Shapes to create visually appealing cover pages. This is a very simple and widely used method of creating beautiful Word covers:

On the main Word interface, place the cursor directly on the page where you want to create the cover. Then, navigate to the Insert tab => select Shapes => click on the rectangle icon.

In this method of creating beautiful Word covers, you need to drag the rectangle to the desired size for the cover frame and page border.

Right-click on the rectangle you just created => select Format Shape.

In the Format Shape window, you choose:

• Under Fill: select No fill.
• Under Line: select Solid line. In the Color section, choose the border color, and in the Width section, choose the border thickness.

Create the cover frame as you desire. Finally, insert the content into the cover page.

With this method of creating beautiful Word covers, you can move the position of the frame to any location. In doing so, the text content will also be moved along with it. Moreover, you also have fewer options for frame styles compared to method 1.

Guide to creating page borders in Word using the Page Border tool

Another way to create stunning Word covers is to use the Page Border tool to decorate borders in Word. The process is equally simple as follows:

On the toolbar, click on Design and then select Page Borders.

In the Page Border dialog box, you'll configure the following fields:

• Setting: choose Box to create a border for the document page.
• Color: select a suitable border color.
• Width: set the thickness of the border.
• Art: choose the style of the border.

Click on Options and set Margin (for alignment) and Measure from (to determine margin and text distance). Finally, press OK to finish creating beautiful Word covers and decorating borders in Word with Page Border.

Additionally, you can also create beautiful Word covers using online cover templates. Here's how:

Select the Insert tab and then choose Online Picture.

In the search box, enter Border clipart to search for cover frames. Then, press Enter to display results. Finally, click on the desired cover frame and select Insert.

Above is the guide on how to make a Word cover and utilize Word tools to decorate beautiful cover frames and borders. Hopefully, with these tips, you've learned how to create more beautiful covers. Wish you have a visually appealing report or article to impress the judges! There are many more handy tricks that Mytour wants to share with you. Keep following us to accumulate lots of useful knowledge!

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