Creating and Saving Cover Page

Add a Next Page section break at the end of your cover page; that will keep its settings (paper size and orientation, margins, vertical alignment, etc.) to itself. Format the page numbering in the section to start at 0; this will prevent it from affecting the numbering in a document you add it to. Be aware that your inserted cover page will adopt the paragraph style formatting of the target document.

 

You might try saving the page as an AutoText entry or adding it to the Cover Page gallery (not sure how well the latter would work).

You may want to use Greg Maxey's gallery tools to save and copy your cover page once you have it set up.

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Building Blocks & AutoText

Okay, let's try this a different way - maybe I'm not looking for the correct solution.

We have several "procedural documents" that occasionally have to be updated. When they are updated, they have to have the revision date posted, the control number updated, and signatures received before the new printed version of the procedure is put into the hard copy file (in a binder.) The person handling this sometimes forgets to do one of those things and I thought if she had a cover sheet that basically was a checklist then each time she printed one out it would be on top, she could check those things then, and throw away the cover sheet. But there are about 100 or more of these procedural documents to be done. The documents have formatting with "page 1 of 2" or whatever on them and that needs to stay the same. Is there a better way to do this? Or is the cover page the best way? Thanks!

This sounds like a job for a UserForm. This could be programmed to pop up on a Save or Save As to prompt the user to fill in the appropriate information, which would then be inserted in the document. See http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tip_pages/create_employ_userform.html to get started.