The powerful text editor offered by Microsoft‘s office suite , Word, has not stopped growing and offering new experiences in the form of functions over time. These focus on helping us get more elaborate documents and with minimal effort. Now we are going to see how we can design spectacular covers directly from the program.
At first, many might think that a text editor like this is focused on allowing us to type words, paragraphs, and pages with this content. However, many of the software solutions in this sector have grown in such a way that they surely surprise most. One of the main reasons for all this focuses on the enormous amount of content and elements that we can use in our documents. Of course Word was not going to be less, more if we consider that it is the main reference within this software sector.
Now we want to talk to you, more than about document editing as such, about the cover design that we can carry out here. Perhaps some for these tasks use third-party design programs. But it is worth knowing that the editor itself allows us to create really striking elements of this type without leaving the program as such. In fact, next, we are going to talk about two interesting methods to design these covers that we comment on in the same text editor, for our work.
Word Covers feature
It is true that the Microsoft program has many functions, many of them unknown, even though we have been working with the program for years. The reason for this is that they are not very common to use or are not as popular as others. For example, the functionality that allows us to add predesigned covers to our works here, perhaps you have never seen it before. But the truth is that Word offers us a series of elements of this type that we can use and save time and effort.
For all this that we tell you, we only have to go to the Insert menu option where we find a section called Cover. We see this in the Pages section, where we find a drop-down list with a multitude of samples. Specifically, we will see a series of predesigned documents in the form of covers that we can mark to add to our current work.
Then, we will only have to customize it to adapt it to our needs or type of work.
Design by hand in the program
Also, if we are somewhat creative users, this is a program that allows us to design these covers that we are commenting on, manually. With these we mean that Word offers us a series of elements and functionalities that will allow us to create striking and spectacular covers for our work. Those who want to harken back to the old days, for example, can dip into the once-popular WordArt .
These special fonts will allow us to create retro covers but they will surely attract the attention of more than one. We find this in the menu option at the same time we have the possibility to Insert / WordArt. But that’s not all, since at the same time we have the possibility of working here with images that we can insert into this design and adapt them to the type of document we are working with.
