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www.DOF.Virginia.gov 900 Natural Resources Drive, Suite 800, Charlottesville, VA 229003 (434) 977-6555; VDOF@DOF.Virginia.gov

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TEMPLATE INSTRUCTIONS
(Delete this section from your final document)

Document Instructions

Always Use Styles – the heading styles help structure the document and create the table of contents.

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Heading 5

Turn on your Styles Pane to see the listing of styles more clearly.

Apply the appropriate style for the formatting desired (e.g., Body Text, Body Bullets, Body Numbers, Question/Answer, etc.). Select style and start typing OR select text/paragraphs and click on the desired style.

To bold or italicize words, select the words and apply the chosen character style to selected words.

Character Styles – Bold character style – Italics character style – Bold italic character style – Underline style – Green text tyle – Red text style – Blue text style – Gray text style (applied to characters over the chosen paragraph style)

Use AP Style in writing.

Use heading styles to structure your document – think about the document in outline format.

Save your document with an understandable naming convention.

To update headers and footers, double-click the header or footer:

Enter the document working title in the upper right header.

Right-click on the file name in the lower left footer and Update Field (page 1 and 2).

Enter the mm/dd/yyyy (e.g., 12/11/2023) (page 1 and 2).

A table of contents is helpful in documents over 3 pages. If your document is 3 pages or less, you may want to delete the table of contents.

To update the table of contents, right-click on the table of contents area and choose Update Field, Update Entire Table. (Review to check your document structure/style use.)

Complete document properties (File, Properties, Summary) with document title, subject, agency name, keywords, etc.

Get Started by Typing your First Heading

Table Title (delete table if not needed)
Table Header left style	Table Header center style	Table Header right style
Table Data left style	Table Data center style	Table Data right style

Prepared By

First and Last Name, Official Working Title

Virginia Department of Forestry

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