What are building blocks:

Building blocks were Introduced in Word 2010 .
Modules are pre-formatted elements that can be inserted into a document.
Examples of building blocks can be the cover pages from the gallery, or headers and footers.

 

For example, you wish to add a pre-formatted cover page to your document.

Select the “Insert” (1) tab in the Ribbon, click the downward pointing arrow under the “Pages” button(2) and click “Cover Page” (3).
This opens a list of all preformatted cover pages.
Click the cover page you want.
Once the page is inserted, if you wish, you can add a title, a subtitle, a little information about the author and enter the date (4).

Another example of building blocks are the headers or footers.

Just click the “Header or footer” button under the “Insert” (1) tab. This opens a menu where we can be sure to find a header and footer that fits our cover page (2).

Click the header or footer that is to placed in this document.

Other types of building blocks are “Page Numbers”, ” Text boxes “,” Signatures “,” Date and time “etc.
These building blocks can save you time and reduce the number of errors, since frequently used data blocks can be created that can easily be updated.

Using these functions will save you a lot of time.

Building blocks:

Now that we now know what building blocks are, we’ll learn how to create one.

I have a text which should be placed in each page. Instead of typing and formatting this text over and over again, it’s easier to just use a building block, which is sometimes referred to “Quick Parts”.

Select the “Insert” tab on the ribbon.
Select the text.
Click the “Quick Parts” button and select “Save Selection to Quick Part Gallery …”

This opens the “Create New Building Block” dialog box.

In the first box, give a name for your module.
In the second box, select a gallery where you want to place this module.
In the third box, select a category. You can probably create a new category, but in this case the category will be “General”.
In the next box you can enter a description.
And in the “Save in:” text box you can select which directory you want to save the module in.

In the last text box, “Options”, select the manner in which your text should to be inserted.
Only content can be inserted, or content can be inserted in its own paragraph.

Only content is good for this example, so I click “OK”

 

Now this module will be saved in our gallery.

To use this now, open a new document.

Select the location in your document where you want to insert the newly created module.

Select the “Insert” tab on the ribbon, again

Then click the “Quick Parts” button.

In the menu that appears you will see the newly created module.
Click on the building block to insert it.

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