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Heading 1 - Merriweather (Architects Daughter is also good for a less formal look).

I find it works best to have a sans serif font for the main content and the main heading then a serif font for the headings and sub headings but you find what works best for you. I would recommend you experiment with combinations to match your different fonts and achieve the look you are after. Google has a massive font library to choose from so you can find a set of fonts to suit your taste. The default fonts are ok but we can find some better ones.

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This Colour scheme tool is quite useful for creating a series of matching colours for your document headings and so on. The default colour pallette is ok but if you really want to stand out you can benefit from creating your own colour scheme. If you change your mind on something, you can experiment and have it keep them all consistent for you. This way, all the headings on your page will automatically be styled to look the same.

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Similar to for the Title, don't forget to select the Update the style to match option. You can change up how close or far the border line is from the heading text by playing with the Border padding (in the borders and shading dialogue) and Line-height values.

Also set it to a different colour to the Title font to create a nice contrast. Now, similar to for the Title, set a border for the heading but this time make it along the bottom. Then change the font colour so that it stands out a bit on the page. Step 2Ĭhange the font to one that is Serif. Setting up the Headings is done in a similar manner to the Title, we're just going to modify the settings to suit. You will probably also want to change the colour of the text to white so that it stands out a bit clearer. Then go to Format -> Paragraph styles -> Borders and shading. To do this first make sure your cursor is somewhere within the main heading text. Type your Main heading at the very top of the page. It can also work well making it a contrasting colour.Īdding a logo or image to the far right of the heading bar and making it slightly bigger so that it breaks out from the bar also creates a nice break for the heading and leads the readers eye into the rest of the document. It works well if you make the heading bar a rich colour and then the border a slightly darker, off version of that colour. We can then spice it up a bit by adding a border. We want the main heading to stand out so we will make it a solid block of colour. Simply click anywhere within the text to move the cursor there, then click the Styles drop down menu and select the style you're after. To change text to a certain style you don't need to click and drag to select all the text.

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Using styles will save you time but will also ensure consistency within your document which will improve the professional look.

Normal text by default is Normal text.

Subheadings will all be set to Heading 2.

We want to make sure that the main heading on our page is specified as a Title in our styles.

Styles come with defaults but you can easily change them. They can save you a lot of time as they save you having to manually style every element on your document.

Styles allow you to specify what all elements of a certain type shall look like. I'll run you through setting up styles and a template which I like but I encourage you to experiment and find a style that suits your taste. On the following page we'll look at a series of things you can do to set yourself up with professional and elegant looking documents. Though a great looking document can't make up for poor content (well maybe just a bit), it definitely will amplify the appeal of good and great content. It is simple to do and will go a long way to increasing their opinion of you and your abilities. In the readers mind it reflects on the quality of the content but it will also increase their impression of you as the author. I would really encourage you to take the time to make your documents look professional. To the right is an example page to illustrate what we are going to look at creating.

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Whilst I will explain how to lay out the page in Google Docs there is obviously nothing stopping you applying the same ideas within your documents made using other word processors. Thankfully it's not too difficult to create your own document styles and templates to work from which can really make your Docs stand out. And Google does provide some templates in their template gallery for Google Docs which aren't bad but also leave a bit of room for improvement. If you're creating a presentation there are ample high quality themes to go at. Sometimes it can seem like documents created in Google Docs are doomed to mediocrity in the looks department.

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