Characteristics of Documents

Documents have many things.

Characters

• These are single letters or numbers.
• They can be formatted.

Paragraph

• A paragraph is a set of sentences.
• They are separated by line gaps. This done by pressing the enter key twice.
• Paragraphs can be formatted with indentation, alignment, line spacing and borders.

Page

• A page is a single side of paper, once printed.
• Pages can contain text, numbers, images, shapes, tables and other items.
• They can have multiple properties such as size, orientation, margins, backgrounds and borders.

Section

• A section is an area of a document.
• It can contain multiple and single pages.
• It has its own properties, which are similar to properties for pages.

Frames

• Frames are an independent area of a page that can contain text, images or tables.
• They have the same properties as paragraphs as well as other properties such as word wrapping, order, alignment and rotation.

Headers and Footers

• There are areas at the top and at the bottom of the page.
• They can contain text, images, etc and can also be formatted.
• They often contain page numbers.
• The first page and odd/even pages can have different headers and footers.

Footnote

• A footnote is additional information for reference. 
• They are indicated by a number letter or symbol.
• They appear at the bottom of the page.