Main article: History of Microsoft Word Origins Word can also be acquired by purchasing Windows RT or the discontinued Microsoft Works suite. In 1981, Microsoft hired Charles Simonyi, the primary developer of Bravo, the first GUI word processor, which was developed at Xerox PARC.
Simonyi started work on a word processor called Multi-Tool Word and soon hired Richard Brodie, a former Xerox intern, who became the primary software engineer. Microsoft announced Multi-Tool Word for Xenix and MS-DOS in 1983. Its name was soon simplified to Microsoft Word. That year Microsoft demonstrated Word running on Windows.įree demonstration copies of the application were bundled with the November 1983 issue of PC World, making it the first to be distributed on-disk with a magazine. Since you’ve deleted the link to the previous section, Word will start numbering on the second page of your document.Unlike most MS-DOS programs at the time, Microsoft Word was designed to be used with a mouse. On the Header and Footer toolbar, click the button to insert the number of pages. This removes the link between the 1st page header/footer and the rest of the document’s headers/footers. On the Header and Footer toolbar, you will notice the Link to Previous section button is highlighted.Ĭlick the Link to Previous button. If you’d like to put the page number in the footer, click the button to Switch to Footer.ģ – Delete the link between the 1st and subsequent page(s) headers and footers. (At this point, you can click View, then Normal to see the section page break – this is optional).Ĭlick the View menu, then Header and Footer. Under Section Break Types, Choose Next Page. Here are the step-by-step instructions.ġ – Insert a New Page Section Break on the 2nd Page. In order to do this, you would have to work with Word 2003’s section break features. How do I set up Word so that the first page in a document is the unnumbered cover page? What I’d like to see happen is for the second page in the document to be numbered page 1. I occassionally create documents with cover pages. I recently taught an Intermediate Word 2003 class, and this was a question posed by one of the students:
0 kommentar(er)
