A second major use of the headings in the style box is in seeing a long document such as a project in outline view. The Outline button is in the bottom left corner of the screen, the right-most of a group of four (the others are Normal view, On-line view and Page view). In outline view you can see the structure of your document and make adjustments such as changing the heading style of a paragraph or dragging large areas of text around the document by dragging only the heading.
Bring up the Drawing tool bar and use the icons to draw elements such as lines, ellipses and rectangles in your document. The Word Art icon (blue letter 'A') lets you draw fancy headings.
The Text Box icon lets you place text and pictures in a box which you can drag anywhere in your document (e.g. as a ‘pullout’ quotation). Use Insert/Text Box or the icon in the Drawing toolbar (with lines and a drop capital 'A') and draw a box with the cross. Click inside the box and write your text or insert your picture. You can move the text box anywhere in your document and set wrapping with Format/Text Box.
An object is an item from another program such as MS Equation Editor or Corel Draw which is embedded in a document or linked to a data source. Microsoft call this 'Object Linking and Embedding' or OLE and it is how 'add-in' programs such as Word Art and Graph work. Select Insert/Object and choose from the list of programs which can supply objects - the program will start and will deposit the object you create in your Word document when you close it. To edit an object in Word you double-click it which runs the program and opens the object for editing. This tends to be slow and can make files very large. An alternative approach is to run the program separately and use Edit/Copy and Edit/Paste to move objects you create. Choose Edit/Paste Special to link objects so that they are updated automatically in your Word document when they are changed in at their source, e.g. a chart or table of data will update automatically in Word when it is changed in Excel..
To insert a picture in a document select Insert/Picture and click on the file name - you may have to navigate the directory structure to find it first. To format the picture select Format/Picture (or Format/Object). Add a border on the Colours and Lines tab. Use the Wrapping tab to control the way text flows around the picture. Drag the picture into place with the mouse.
To insert foreign language characters and other characters (e.g. © ) select Insert/Symbol and choose a font from the list - typically the one at the top which is called 'Normal' or a symbol font such as WingDings or Dingbats. To insert a file into your document select position the cursor where you want the new file to begin and select Insert/File. To add the current date and time select Insert/Date and Time and choose from the list of options.
Write the outline of a project which will contain a collection of poems in a number of sections such as 'Nature Poems', 'Love Poems', etc. Write titles for each poem as either the real title of the poem or as 'Love Poem number 2 goes here', etc. Set text styles for the section headings and the poem titles and format the styles as you wish. Add a new page at the beginning of the document (use Ctrl/Enter on the first line) and add headings and a table of contents. Add suitable headers and footers.