Within the navigation panel, select a page and “right-click” or “ctrl + click” on the mini preview of the page you would like to duplicated.ģ. Simply go to INSERT > Picture > From File… )ġ. (Tip: If you want to add more photos to the template: Select the image you would like using the dialog box. Within the Picture Segment of the Formatting Palette, click on the “Replace…” buttonģ. Within the dialog box, you can adjust the font, color, sizing and other properties of the associated style.Ģ. Click on the fly-out window to the right of the highlighted style name and select “Modify Style…”Ĥ. You should see the current style become highlighted in the toolbox panel.ģ. With the Styles Segment of the Formatting Palette open, select the text that you would like to modify on the page.Ģ. Much like you can change the theme, you can also simply adjust the colors used within the template using the “Colors” Options within the “Document Theme” section of the Formatting Palette.īy selecting this fly out menu you can select different color palettes, and see how picking them, transforms the look of your recipe book.ġ. This transforms both the fonts and color palette quickly and then you can make more minor adjustments using the techniques below. (Tip: be sure to toggle back to the content pages once you have made your changes.)Ĭhanging the paragraph styles of the document makes it easy to change the overall look of your cookbook with minimal effort.įor a quick transformation you can start by changing the “Document Theme” within the Formatting Palette. Then, in the lower right-hand corner of the application window, you can toggle from the document content to the master page layouts.
To edit the page number styles and the logo on the right-hand pages, you will need to acces the document’s master pages–these can sometimes be tricky to find, so be sure you are in “Publishing Layout” which you can select by going to VIEW > Publishing Layout. To get you started with publishing your own recipe book, you can follow along with the one I created for this demo.ĭOWNLOAD the MagCloud-ready Word Template. Today we’re looking at using Microsoft Word to create a quick and easy recipe book. Yesterday I shared a template for using an Adobe InDesign template, which you can read more about here. The holidays are creeping closer, so we’re back today, with another template to transform your family’s favorite recipes into a colorful, beautifully-published recipe book that you can give to your friends and loved-ones this holiday season.