Add a cover page

Microsoft Word offers a gallery of convenient predesigned cover pages. Choose a cover page and replace the sample text with your own.

Cover pages are always inserted at the beginning of a document, regardless of where the cursor appears in the document.

On the Insert tab, in the Pages group, click Cover Page.

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Click a cover page layout from the gallery of options.

After you insert a cover page, you can replace the sample text with your own text by clicking to select an area of the cover page, such as the title, and typing your text.

Notes

If you insert another cover page in the document, the new cover page will replace the first cover page you inserted.

To replace a cover page created in an earlier version of Word, you must delete the first cover page manually, and then add a cover page with a design from the Word gallery.

To delete a cover page inserted with Word, click the Insert tab, click Cover pages in the Pages group, and then click Remove Current Cover Page.

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You can quickly and easily give your document a professional look by applying a document theme. A document theme is a set of formatting choices that include a set of theme colors, a set of theme fonts (including heading and body text fonts), and a set of theme effects (including lines and fill effects).

Important Document themes that you apply affect the styles (style: A combination of formatting characteristics, such as font, font size, and indentation, that you name and store as a set. When you apply a style, all of the formatting instructions in that style are applied at one time.) that you can use in your document.

On the Page Layout tab, in the Themes group, click Themes.

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Click the document theme that you want to use.

Notes

If a document theme that you want to use is not listed, click Browse for Themes to find it on your computer or network.

To automatically download new themes, click Enable Content Updates from Office.com.

Count the number of words in a document

Some of the content in this topic may not be applicable to some languages.

Microsoft Word counts the number of words in a document while you type. Word can also count the following:

Pages

Paragraphs

Lines

Characters, either including or excluding the spaces

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Count the number of words

Count the words as you type

When you type in a document, Word automatically counts the number of pages and words in your document and displays them on the status bar at the bottom of the workspace.

Word count on status bar

If you don't see the word count in the status bar, right-click the status bar, then and click Word Count.

Count the words in a selection or selections

You can count the number of words in a selection or selections, rather than all of the words in a document. The selections don't need to be next to each other for you to count them.

Select the text that you want to count.

The status bar displays the number of words in the selection. For example, 100/1440 means that the selection accounts for 100 words of the total number of words in the document, 1,440.

Tip To select blocks of text that aren't next to each other, select the first section, and then hold down CTRL and select additional sections.

Count the words in a text box

Select the text in the text box.

The status bar displays the number of words in the text box. For example, 100/1440 means that the text box contains 100 words of the total number of words in the document, 1,440.

Note To count the words in multiple text boxes, press and hold CTRL while you select the text in each text box that you want to count. The word count automatically adds the total number of selected words in the text boxes.

Include text in footnotes, endnotes, and text boxes in the word count

On the Review tab, in the Proofing group, click Word Count.

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In the Word Count dialog box, select the Include textboxes, footnotes and endnotes check box.

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Insert the number of words in your document

Click where you want to add the number of words that are in your document.

On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click Quick Parts.

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Click Field.

In the Field names list, click NumWords, and then click OK.

Note You can also add the number of pages or characters by clicking NumPages or NumChars in the Field names list.

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Count the number of pages, characters, paragraphs, and lines

The Word Count dialog box displays the number of pages, paragraphs, and lines in your document, and also the number of characters, either including or excluding spaces.

On the Review tab, in the Proofing group, click Word Count.

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