One of the things we are increasingly using to make our work easier is preset styles in Microsoft products. If you use either Microsoft Word or Excel (or any other Office product, for that matter) you can create templates with the formatting in them. Even without any text or information in your document, you can create a style to show how you want the body of your text to look, how headers should look how pages should break before or after sections, and how spacing on your page should work. A good primer on styles can be found here. Setting up styles ahead of time has saved us a lot of time in document formatting.