So following on from the last video, I'm gonna show you how you can create your own custom cover page now if you want to. I'm gonna keep this really, really simple. I'm gonna allow your own artistic flare to kind of work and make your own cool and clever designs. But let's say we're gonna get rid of this one. We're gonna design our own, okay? So I'm going to go back to the Insert tab, which seems a bit counterintuitive, I agree. We'll select cover page, and then we will remove the current cover page. Okay, so that's gone. And what we're going to do instead is we're going to put a blank page at the front of the document, okay? So there's our blank page. Now it's just a matter of creating the design that we want. So to design this, why don't we add a few shapes and a couple of text boxes just to kind of give you an idea of how this can work, okay? So I'm gonna insert some shapes on here. So let's have a rounded rectangle. I'm just gonna click and drag that up here, and we'll have another one of those further down that's a bit bigger as well. So I'm just going to copy that. That's a good shortcut, by the way, if you want to copy a shape is Control + D, and that does duplicate. And, and that shortcut also works in PowerPoint as well if you're ever using PowerPoint. So that's Control + D to copy and paste an identical shape to the one you've got selected. Okay, I'm just gonna... Oops, I didn't want to do that. I wanted to expand it. Let me do that again. So we'll just make sure that they're all the same. Yep, they're the same. Great stuff, and I'm just going to center them on the page as well, so I'm gonna select these. I'm going to go to Shape Format. And what we want to do is select Position. Oh, not not Position, sorry, Align. That's better. And we're going to align center, just to make sure they're both in the center of the page. Okay, now, well this top one is gonna be our title. Okay, and I'm just, with a shape, you can literally just type in the middle "Title." There you go. And if you start typing, the text will up appear right in the middle there. And that text is a bit small though for a title. So what we'll do, let's make that a bit bigger let's make it about size 48 or something, okay? And then further down here, we might want to add a description, but rather than that being in the middle now, we might want to have that further up in like a text box with a different contrast, so I'm gonna insert a text box. Insert, Text Box. Just gonna grab a simple one, and we'll move that down to here. And let's make that a bit bigger as well. And while we're at it, let's also align that to center. There we go. Okay, great. So we've got a few different elements on our page now. I think one more thing today, I'm gonna change the color of some of these and get rid of some of these backgrounds as well. These line fills, shall we say. So to do that, again, if you click on any of these shapes and click on Shape Format, okay, you've got some basic shape styles in here that you can play around with as well, okay? Now, if you're really interested in how to do a lot of stuff with shapes, I suggest you look at the PowerPoint videos that we've got as well, just because the focus of Word, generally, is to make sure that your documents and your text are all sorted out properly as well. PowerPoint's much more of a design application, okay? So I'm not spent as much time on design in this video series as I did in PowerPoint, okay? But if you review that, it will give you lots of tips and tricks for sort of sorting out shapes, alignment distribution, all that sort of thing, okay? So I recommend you review those videos. Okay, so this can be our, I dunno. This can be our description Descrip. That's better. And what we'll do as well, we'll make the text a bit bigger in here. So let's make that, let's make it size 18, something like that. There we go. And let's have that a reasonable size. And we probably, again, let's format that shape as well. So let's say we don't wanna shape outline, no outline. And we do want a bit of a filler, so let's give it a bit of a contrasting fill. So we'll give it a kind of a light blue fill. There we go. So we've got a few different shapes on there. Now, obviously you could go to town. You could draw pictures et cetera. You can add pictures, you do whatever you want to. At the end of the day, it's your document. But I just want to kind of give you an idea of what we can do. So next thing to do then is I'm going to grab all of these things. So what I'm doing here, I'm just zooming out so I can select things more easily, okay? And I'm doing that by using the Control key and the roller ball on the mouse, 'cause it's just the quickest way to do it. So Control + forward roll zooms in, and Control + backward roll zooms out, okay? So now what I'm going to do is grab each of these. So I'm gonna do Control + Click, Control + Click, Control + Click. Oops, Control, do that again. Control + Click, Control + Click, Control + Click. So I've selected all three of those elements. And what we're going to do now, go back to the Insert menu, Select Cover Page, and we're going to Save Selection to Cover Page Gallery. Okay, so click on there, and then give it a name. So I'm gonna call this "Demo cover" and then hit, OK.

Great stuff. Now we're gonna delete all of this now. Okay, it's all gone. I'm gonna get rid of that page altogether. So we're back to where we were.

Oops. Gone the wrong way. There we are. That's better.

So we're back to our table of contents. And now let's say I want to insert a cover page. I can go, I can select Cover Page here, and then I can just scroll down, and at the very bottom I've got covers. You can see I was actually practicing one here earlier on, so it was the Demo cover that I've just created. There you go. So that's my new cover page added, and I can now start adding titles and things as well if I want to. Okay, so that's how you create your own cover page. In a later video, I'll also share how to design a template as well, okay? So it may be that you can use your firm's themes, et cetera, within your own template. And that would be, I'll take it up another level again.