How to set up a journaling template for Microsoft Word:   1: set up your screen this way if you prefer: On the menu bar at the very top of the screen  (in Microsoft Word application), click on TOOLS. Then click OPTIONS. Then click on the GENERAL tab. Then check BLUE BACKGROUND WHITE TEXT and click OK. Your screen will turn blue with white text. Choose any letter font or size you wish.   2:Then type this forward slash on your keyboard:   /    Then type this forward slash again:    /    Now go back and highlight the last forward slash you just typed. Then take your mouse pointer up to the FORMAT icon  for letter color and choose blue, OR go above that to the menu bar and click on FORMAT. In FORMAT click on  FONT. Chose under FONT STYLE: Bold italic. Then chose FONT COLOR: Blue   3:Your screen should now look like this: / /   4: Now highlight both rows of slashes that you typed.    Then either go up to EDIT and chose COPY. OR the keyboard shortcut is to hold down the ctrl key plus C while your mouse is still highlighting the text you wish to copy.   5: Now put the mouse below what you have typed and copied.     Either go back up to EDIT and chose PASTE. OR the keyboard shortcut is to hold down the ctrl key plus V while your mouse is still highlighting the text you wish to paste.   6. Your screen should now look like this: / / / /   7: repeat step 4,5,6. Only this time highlight all the slashes. Then it will give you  8. Repeat step 4,5,6 again and you will have 16 slashes. Keep doing this until you have created a few pages of this pattern.   8: Save the document at Journal  and choose Document Template as the extension format in the save feature below the title you give this. Call it Journal Template.   Every time that you want to journal you may reopen this document and type in front of the slashes and keep the format and then save the document with a new name and the old template will remain the same as before, ready for another use each time.   Your text may look like this: White for what you say to the Lord and Blue for what you hear in your heart that He is speaking back to you:   /Lord I love you /I love you too. Or You can set up a macro:   Follow steps 1 through 3. Then skip to step 8 and save it as the journaling template.   Now go up to TOOLS: To MACRO: To RECORD NEW MACRO: MACRO NAME: Set Journal Click: KEYBOARD Press ALT key and J at the same time.   ASSIGN   Open new page icon under File on Icon Bar.   INSERT: Journal Template file Put Curser to from and click close macro   When you first bring up New Mircosoft just push ALT key J at the same time in blank document. The journal format will pop up.