Page Layout

Overview: Different properties for pages can be set using this dialog.

Accessing: To display this dialog, one of the following methods can be used:

•	the dialog box launcher corresponding to the Layouts group located under the Page Layout tab must be selected.

•	enable the Pagination dialog bar and right-click on the page which will be edited.

Page Properties

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The Page Format can be chosen between Letter/A3/A4/A5 Portrait, Letter/A3/A4/A5 Landscape or Custom if the user desires to personalize the page format.

Page Dimensions option will be enabled if the user selects the Custom option from the Page Format drop-down list.

Also, Width and Height properties can be set.

In the Margins group left, right, top and bottom page margins can be customized.

The auto adjust regions option ensures that when one of the regions extent is modified, all the others regions will be resized accordingly. For example, if the header's extent is modified to 1.3 in, the body's top margin will be automatically resized to 1.3 in.

Regions

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Page Regions can be chosen from: Header, Body, Footer, Left and Right.

For each one the user can set Padding, Content Orientation (Normal, Rotated 90, Rotated 180, Rotated 270), Margins, Extent and Vertical Alignment (only for Footer, Header, Right and Left regions), Column Count and Column Gap (only for Body) and properties concerning Borders and Background.

The Header and Footer have a specific attribute and that is Precedence. This attribute refers to the possibility of extending the Header or Footer over the Right and Left Region by checking it.