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The document explains how to set up layout for tabloid 11-by-17 inch paper, then walks through selecting fonts, defining paragraph and character styles, applying consistent formatting, creating handwritten-like dashes with shapes, building an antique parchment background, and inserting transparent-signature images. It includes version notes and printing tips at the end.","Create and print your own Declaration of Independence\nIn our fabrication of the Declaration of Independence, we used only built-in Word 2010 features and Microsoft Office 2010 fonts which made the document easy to create and to share. If you would like to try this for yourself, or just check out what we did, this document includes the steps we took to get this done.\nNote: The steps provided here refer to the version in tabloid (11-by-17 inch) paper size. Notes on all of the available versions and printing tips are at the end of this document.\nGetting started\nYou can create the document on your own or as a team. To learn how to create the document yourself, skip to the \u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Detailed_steps.\" \u0014detailed steps\u0015.\nTo get the full experience, you can get multiple writers working on the document.  So, find five Founding Fathers and get them each a free Windows Live® ID. Then, save the document to Windows Live SkyDrive® so that they can edit it simultaneously using the new co-authoring capability in Word 2010.\nIt’s also a good idea for the editors to sign in to Windows Live Messenger, so they can see who else is available and communicate instantly while shaping the nation, without leaving Word.\nNote: If any of the Founding Fathers happens to use a Mac, they can use Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 and Messenger for Mac 8 to simultaneously edit the same document and communicate right from Word 2011 with their colleagues who work on PCs using Word 2010.\nOnce the writers are in place and the document is saved to SkyDrive, you can get on with the formatting.\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Summary_of_steps.\" \u0014Summary of steps\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Detailed_steps.\" \u0014Detailed steps\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Notes_about_the\" \u0014Notes about the versions provided and printing tips\u0015\nSummary of steps\nYou might be surprised at just how easy this document was to create in Word 2010:\nSelect the fonts. To easily find the three fonts needed for this document, we just select some text and then scroll down the font list on the Home tab in the Font group. A live preview shows what each font will look like when applied to the selected text.\nCreate five styles to format all the text. It takes just three paragraph styles, two character styles, and a bit of direct formatting for all of the text formatting you see in the document.\nApply the styles. One of the best things about styles is that you just create them once and then can click wherever you need to in the document to apply the exact same set of formatting. And, if you need to change the style later as you adjust your design and layout, you only have to make the change once and it updates throughout the document, wherever the style is applied.\nCreate the dashes. 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