Formatting Pages

Setting the Page Properties (title, color, background image)

Use the Page Properties dialog box to enter properties such as the title, author, and description of the document on which you are currently working. This information is useful if you plan to use the page on a web site, since search engines use this type of information to index your page. You can view this information from the browser window by opening the View menu and choosing Page Info.

• Title: Type the text you want to appear as the window title when someone views the page through a browser. This is how most web search tools locate web pages, so choose a title that conveys what your page is about.
• Author: Type the name of the person who created the document. This information is helpful to readers who locate the document by using a web search tool to search on name.
• Description: Enter a brief description of the document's contents.

To set the colors and background for the current page:

Open Format > Page Colors and Background.

Edit any of the following properties:

• Reader's default colors: Select this if you want your page to use the color settings from the viewer's browser for text and links.
• Use custom colors: Select this if you want to specify the colors of text and links. For each element, select a color from the drop-down list. Sample output for each type of link appears in the pane on the right. (see an example changing the background image of a page below).
• Background image: Select this if you want the background of your page to be an image. Type the name of the image file or click Choose File to locate the image file on your hard drive or network. Note: Background images are tiled and override background color selections.

Select the Use custom colors option. The options for changing colors of page elements become active.