Add a cover page to your document

This guide shows you how to add a cover page to a document, choose the layout, and fill in the title block.

A proposal that opens with a proper title page reads as finished work before anyone has read a word of it. The cover is built in, so it is a switch and a few fields rather than a design job.

Switch to the Welcome tab

Above the page you get two tabs, Welcome and Document. Welcome is the cover, Document is everything after it.

The cover is edited on its own tab, so it never gets in the way of the body.

Turn the cover on

In the panel on the right, switch on Include cover page. That is what decides whether the cover is part of the exported PDF, so a document you want to start straight at section one simply leaves it off.

Pick a layout

Layout offers seven covers:

Document is a formal cover, Contract frames the title page, Executive is a brief cover, Masthead puts a letterhead band across the top, Overlay runs a photo or colour plate behind the title, Spine looks like a bound report, and Panel splits the page.

Formal documents suit Document or Contract. Overlay and Panel are for work that wants a photo.

Fill in the title block

Under Content you set the Eyebrow, the Title, a Description, Prepared by and the Date. Any field left empty is hidden, so a cover with just a title and a date stays clean rather than showing blank lines.

Media appears for the layouts that use an image. Upload your own or generate one, the same way images work inside the document.

Then check it in the PDF

Download the PDF once the cover is set. The cover is page one and the document flows on from there, so what you see on the Welcome tab is what lands in front of your reader.