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The PHE ‘boilerplate’ page

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This page contains standardised content about Public Health England along with contact details and so on.

It has been moved to form the final page of each report (as you create pages above it, this the boilerplate page will move down accordingly).
It has options to

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On this page you can:

  • add a version control reference (or delete, if not required)
  • add a 'prepared by' reference (or delete, if not required)
  • add a contact (or delete, if not required)

No other content should be applied to changed on this page. The digital team will add the copyright year, month published and Gateway number.

Style panel

The Much of the standard Word toolbar is locked and greyed out in the template . This is because you must use the preset PHE styles to ensure that only a limited number of pre-set PHE styles are available to format your document.

The Styles menu is on the Home ribbon in the top toolbar

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To open access the Styles panelmenu, select click on the small arrow icon positioned bottom right (circled above) or at the bottom right of the Styles tab, or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S.

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Available text styles in style panel

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This should open the Styles menu or panel. Click it at the top and drag it over to the left side of the page where it should lock into place.

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To apply a style , position the cursor in the relevant paragraph or heading to some text - for example, to create bullet points, to make a heading 2 or 3, to apply italics or bold - highlight the relevant text and click on the appropriate style in the style panelStyles menu.

To change a style, highlight the relevant text or paragraph and apply select the new style.

If you're having trouble getting rid of a previous style, highlight the affected text and select Clear All at the top of the list, which should remove all formatting.

Portrait and landscape orientation of pages

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