After creating or importing a document, you may want to change the Document Properties. Document properties apply to your entire document, while section properties override document settings for just a specific section.
View Document Properties
To access the document properties window:
- Select the File toolbar.
- From the Properties icon, select Document Properties.
The Document Properties window has three sections: General, Page Formats, and Table Formats.
Change general settings
The General tab lets you make document-wide changes.
Use this section to:
- Change your document’s Name and set the Type (see Supported Form and Document Types)
- Adjust Preferences for line formatting for the entire document
- Set whether or not all editors can publish links
- Use smart quotes in newly added text, which curves quotation marks and apostrophes inward toward your text. Enabling smart quotes only creates curly punctuation on newly added content and does not change the formatting of existing text.
- Set Permissions for who can send the document for review
- Change Language and Formats including text, number and date formatting based on your document’s language (with spellcheck for Supported Languages)
Format a document
The Page Format tab controls the overall document layout.
The Page Format tab controls the overall document layout.
In this section you can:
- Adjust your Page Layout including the document’s size, orientation, and number of columns
- Change the Page Margins and Margin Style for your entire document
- Enable Preferences including line numbers and document-wide page borders
- Access your Document Style Guide (learn more about using style guides)
If you enable Page Borders, you can select your border's width and color.
The Table Formats tab contains the default text and formatting styles specifically for tables.
View Section Properties
You can change the properties for an individual section by adjusting Section Properties. These settings override document-wide settings for a particular section.
You can view section properties from the Properties menu in the File toolbar or by clicking the Properties icon in the right panel. From the bottom of this panel, you can toggle on Page Border or Line Numbers for the selected section.
