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Cover Page

Often you want a cover for a document, especially if you want to make a printable booklet or pamphlet. The cover can have a similar function to the cover of a book or magazine. Word includes a separate tool for creating a cover page. Its essential feature is that the cover page does not count in the total number of pages in the document and does not have a page number. Also, the title on the cover page does not appear in the table of contents.

The Objective

A cover page has been added to the document. All possible extra fields have been removed from the cover page.

A model of a document with a cover page:

Kuvassa malli kansilehdestä, sisällysluettelosta, sivunumeroinnista ja otsikkotyylien käytöstä

Task: Add a cover page

Let’s add a separate cover page to enhance the look of the document. Add the option you want from the pre-made cover pages. Fill in the cover page with a heading and, if you wish, write a short summary. Finally, delete the extra fields.

Nice

### Adding a cover page

Word has predefined cover pages that come at the top of the document.

The cover page is inserted using the Cover Page button in the Pages group on the Insert tab.

The cover page button opens a menu with available options such as for instance the Integral cover page. At the bottom, there is a button called Delete current cover page

Click on the cover page to select it. For example, you could use the cover page **Integral**, which also has a place for a summary.

Regardless of where you were in the document, except for the table of contents, the cover page will appear at the top of the document on a new page.

You can also delete the cover at the same place, in which case the extra page will also disappear from the beginning of the document.

Kansilehden lisäys

What happens to the cover page when it is added?

The page layouts changed and no header or footer information was added to this page.
All previous formatting applied.

Adding a title

On the first line of the actual document, cut the heading of the document “Remote learning and teleworking skills”. You can use the Ctrl+X key combination for this.

Then paste the text into the document using the **Keep Text Only** option.

Deleting extra fields

To delete one of the fields in the completed cover page template, click on the **tag** of the field with the field name (e.g. Subtitle) and press the `Delete` key.

Accessibility and cover page

Accessibility

Recommendation: Do not place content on the cover page that is otherwise inaccessible to the reader.

The use of a cover page can cause accessibility problems. Screen readers are often used in the Outline view, where the cover page is not included. This is because, among other things, the program might otherwise get stuck on the cover page. This is a problem, if some relevant information is only on the cover page.

Basic information about the document can be added to the file properties, making them readable by applications. In the File menu, clicking on Info opens a window, where under the heading Properties, the Title part can be used to enter the name of the document (the title of the whole document), and in Related People you can edit the author information if it is not correct. You can also click on the heading Properties to open a window where you can set other properties.

If the cover page contains relevant information other than the name of the document and the author, consider whether it is appropriate to include the same information in the body of the document, typically at the beginning. Such information may, for example, be a summary in some cover page templates.

Let's review what you've learned and then move on to the Footnotes page.

Which of the following activities do you think you know?

Let's stop for a moment to list what kind of Word skills you know.

Applying heading styles
Viewing the document in the Navigation pane
The arrangement of the parts of the document so that the numberings do not change
Adding page numbers
Adding cover page

Are you ready to move forward?

Mark as complete: