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If your Word 2003 document has a two- or three-column layout, a sidebar can help you break up the monotony created by column after column of pure text. A sidebar is a short portion of text -- usually a paragraph or two -- that is incidental to the main flow of text in your document. It appears with special graphical treatment, such as color, font, borders, and so on. Sidebars come in a variety of styles. Here's one you can try: Click the Text Box button on the Drawing toolbar, and then draw a text box where you want the sidebar to appear. Click in the text box and type the text for the sidebar. Apply whatever formatting you want to the sidebar text.
The easiest way to format sidebars is to create styles for the sidebar heading and body. Then you simply apply the styles to format the sidebar properly.
Use the Fill Color and Line Style controls to add shading and an outline to the sidebar.
You're done! Wasn't that easy?
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