Word 2008 for Mac includes 17 professionally designed cover pages that you can add to a document to give it a professional appearance. The cover page designs are available from the Document Elements tab of the Elements Gallery. Each cover page features a partial or full-page graphic background, and placeholders for information such as the document title, document subtitle, author name, and organization. Word automatically inserts any of that information that is available from the document properties. You can change, add, remove, or modify the information and modify the graphics. The cover page graphics adopt the color scheme of the current document theme to provide a consistent visual experience.

A document can have only one cover page. Selecting a second style from the Cover Pages group of the Document Elements gallery will change the style of the existing page, but retain the information on it.

You can insert a cover page from anywhere in a document. Follow these steps:

Word inserts the selected cover page at the beginning of the document, checks the document properties, and inserts any information found there that is called for by the content placeholders.

To delete a cover page from a document, point to any part of the page, click the button that appears near the upper-left corner of the page, and then click Remove Cover Page.