Elements Unifying a ReportEssay Preview: Elements Unifying a ReportReport this essayWriting reports comes easy to most people, but the trick is to make the report easy and inviting for others to read. It is difficult to pick up and read a report that is dull and boring. I am not talking about the subject of the report but rather the look of it. A report may be chocked full of useful, important, and exciting information; but it may never get read in itsÐŽ¦ entirety because it looks uninteresting. One way to make a report more inviting to read is the use of eye catchers. An eye catcher is something that captures the eye; it aids you in gaining the readerÐŽ¦s attention. Examples of eye catchers are:
„«Sidebars„«Pull Quotes„«Drop CapitalsLater in this report we will also go over other ways to build a great paper; such as, coversheets and unifying elements.SidebarsWhy use a Sidebar?„«Makes the report easier to read„«Summarizes the main message„«Reinforces the important concepts of the main messagePull QuotesA pull quote is a small selection of text pulled out and quoted in a larger font. One of the benefits of using a pull quote is to draw the attention of the skim reader; it clearly highlights key points of the article or report. Pull quotes add style to a document and also breaks up the monotony of text. A pull quote can be placed within an article, span multiple columns, or be placed in an empty column near the article.
Below you will find a good example of a pull quote from Glamour magazine. This one sentence can cause a reader to stop and read it. If the pull quote interests the person enough, he or she may read the balance of the article. The following are some guidelines for doing pull quotes: need to be thought provoking, need to be quick bites of information, and need to include only a single thought.
Drop CapsDrop caps add visual interest and directs the readerÐŽ¦s eye to the beginning of a section of text. You can use drop caps to enhance the appearance of your document. A drop cap is also another way to put emphasis on a word without using bold or italicized font. Drop caps provide a visual break in long articles or in the main text. You can vary the size, color, and font of a drop cap to achieve a more pleasant appearance. Roger Parkers Newsletters from the Desktop offers these additional tips for using drop caps:
єбWhen using multiple drop caps on a page, try to keep them on the top one-third of the page to avoid visually weighing down the page.єбMake sure your drop caps dont inadvertently spell an embarrassing word.єбStrive to achieve a balance between readability and artistic flair when using initial caps.How do you construct a Drop Capital?„±Press Ctrl+Home to move the cursor to the beginning of the document.„±Click anywhere in the paragraph beginning with the word you want to format as a drop cap.„±On the format menu, click drop cap.„±The drop cap dialog box will appear.„±In the position area, click Dropped.„±In the lines to drop box, type 3„±Click OK„±The first letter of your word is now formatted as a drop cap.Cover PageA cover page is the sheet located
To use a drop cap on a page, you will first need to create a cover page.
“It is possible to place cover pages onto a hard surface to create a layout or a caption that you will edit for your page. To do that, you would first need to create a folder for each cover page that you want to include on that page using the Drop Cap Editor.
“Each page of the cover page will be placed on the same hard surface in the edit menu.
“Any individual pages of the page will be placed on each side of the page at random positions, with the only exception being the front and back pages.
For each page, you will need a tag to hold the page
On the top page, the tag will be the page name.
“On the cover page, the tag will be the current paragraph.
On the back page, the tag will be the last paragraph.
On the subject page, you may be given a tag.”
“If a cover page is selected, it will be the first page of the cover page, or the last page.”,””“Your Page Style,””
You can save the selected page style and other styles to document.svg or textfile.com using HTML. 
You can set any of these custom styles to be used on the Page Style
“The style of the page is determined using the tag, and the style attribute is displayed. For example, it is possible to use the tags:>