Word Lesson 3 Reading

Character Formatting
Lesson 3
Objectives
Software Orientation
• As you learn to format text, it is important to become
familiar with the Font group of commands. The Font group,
shown below, is displayed in the Home tab of the Ribbon.
• The Font group
contains commands
for changing the
appearance of text.
Refer to this figure
throughout this
lesson as well as
the rest of the book.
Formatting Characters Manually
• Formatting characters makes your text more appealing
and more readable.
Changing Fonts and Font Sizes
• A character is any single letter, number, symbol, or
punctuation mark.
• A font is a set of characters that have the same design.
• Each font has a unique name, such as Garamond or Arial.
• Microsoft Word has a variety of fonts and font sizes to help
you communicate your intended message in a document.
• In this exercise, you use commands from the Font
command group and the Mini toolbar to apply a specific
font and font size to selected text.
• Font sizes are measured in points.
• Point size refers to the height of characters, with
1 point equaling approximately 1⁄72 of an inch.
• Point sizes range from the very small 8-point size to
72 points or higher.
• Below are a few examples of fonts and sizes.
• The Font group in the Home tab contains menus for
changing both font type and font size.
• You can also access the same commands using the Mini
toolbar or by right-clicking to access a shortcut menu.
• To change text font or size using any of these tools, you first
must select the text.
• Another Way: to change the size of text is to select the text
and click the Grow Font button to increase the font size
or the Shrink Font button to decrease the size.
Step-by-Step: Change Fonts and Font Sizes
• Before you begin these steps, be sure to LAUNCH Microsoft
Word.
1. Connect your USB flash drive to one of the USB ports on
your computer.
2. Click the File tab, then click Open. The Open dialog box
appears.
3. Use the vertical scroll bar to scroll down and locate the
data files for this lesson on your USB flash drive. Double-
click the Lesson 3 folder to open it.
4. Locate and open the file named class_descriptions.
5. Within the document, select
Preston Creek Family YMCA.
6. In the Font group of the
Home tab, click the Font
drop-down arrow to display
the Font menu. The menu
appears, as shown at right.
7. Scroll down the list and
position the mouse pointer
on Arial.
8. Click Arial.
9. With the text
still selected,
click the drop-
down arrow on
the Font Size
menu. The menu
appears, as
shown at right.
10. Click 18.
11. Select Group
Exercise Class
Descriptions.
12. Click the drop-down arrow
to open the Font menu,
then select Arial.
13. With the text still selected,
open the Font Size menu
and select 14.
14. Select the remainder of
text in the document.
Point to the selected text
to display the Mini toolbar.
Click the drop-down arrow
on the Font menu on the
Mini toolbar and choose
Calibri (see right).
15. With text still selected, click the Font Size menu on the Mini
toolbar and choose 12.
16. Click in a blank area of the document to deselect.
17. Select Preston Creek Family YMCA. In the Font group, click the
Grow Font button once to increase the size of the text.
18. Click the Grow Font button two more times until the point
size is 24. Notice that each time you click the button, the
number in the Font Size menu changes.
19. Click in a blank area of the document to deselect.
20. SAVE the document as classes in the lesson folder on your USB
flash drive.
• LEAVE the document open to use in the next exercise.
Applying Character Attributes
• In addition to changing the font and font size of text, you
can change the appearance of characters to apply
emphasis to text.
• In this exercise, you learn how to apply character attributes
such as bolding, italics, font colors, and outlines to selected
text in Word documents.
• The Font group in the Home tab includes the commands for
applying bold, italic, and underline attributes to draw
attention to words or phrases in your document.
• You can use these attributes one at a time, such as Bold, or
together, such as Bold Underline.
• Select the text to apply one or more of the character
attributes using the Font command group, the Mini toolbar,
or keyboard shortcuts or by right-clicking to access a
shortcut menu.
• Click the Font command group dialog box launcher to open
the Font dialog box with more options for formatting
characters. In this dialog box, you can specify a font color,
underline style, and variety of other effects, such as small
caps, strikethrough, superscript, and shadow.
• New to the Font command group is Text Effects. Text
Effects add a distinctive appearance to selected text,
such as outline, shadow, glow, and reflection.
• To add Text Effects to selected text, click the drop-down
arrow on the Text Effects button, then select from the
available options on the menu.
• To remove effects, select the affected text, then click the
Clear Formatting button on the Font group.
Step-by-Step: Apply Character Attributes
• USE the document that is open from the previous exercise.
1. Select the title of the document, Preston Creek Family
YMCA. In the Font command group, click the Bold
button.
2. Select the subtitle, Group Exercise Class Descriptions, and
click the Italic button.
3. Select Active Older Adults and click the Bold button.
4. With the text still selected, click the Underline button.
5. With the text still selected,
click the drop-down arrow
beside the Underline
button. A menu of underlining
choices appears, as shown
at right.
6. Click Thick Underline, the
third line down in the menu.
7. Select the title, Preston Creek
Family YMCA. In the Font Group, click the dialog box
launcher. The Font dialog box appears, as shown
on the next slide.
8. In the Effects section, click the Small Caps check box to
insert a check mark.
9. Click the drop-down arrow on the Font Color menu. A menu
of colors appears. A ScreenTip will appear when you place
your insertion point over the colors; click red from the
Standard Colors section at the bottom.
10.Click the Text Effects
button at the bottom
of the dialog box. The
Format Text Effects
dialog box opens,
as shown at right.
11. In the Fill Color
options area, click
the Color drop-down
arrow. From the
Standard colors menu that appears, select dark blue.
12. In the directory in the left pane of the dialog box, click
Text Outline, then select Solid line in the options that
appear in the right pane.
13. In the Outline Style category, change the width from .75 to
1.5 pt. Click Close to close the Format Text Effects dialog
box.
14. In the Font dialog box, click the Small Caps check box to
remove the check mark.
15. Click OK, then deselect the text.
16. SAVE the document as classes_1 in the lesson folder on
your USB flash drive.
Changing Case
• When you need to change the case (capitalization) of text, Word
provides several options and an easy way to choose the one you
want.
• In this exercise, you learn to use the commands in Word’s
Change Case menu to change capitalization.
• The Change Case menu in the Font group has five options for
changing the capitalization of text:
• Sentence case: Capitalizes the first word in each sentence
• lowercase: Changes all characters to lowercase
• UPPERCASE: Changes all characters to capital letters
• Capitalize Each Word: Capitalizes the first character of each word
• tOGGLE cASE: Changes each character to its opposite case
Step-by-Step: Change Case
1. Select the title, Preston Creek Family YMCA. In the Font
group, click the Change Case button. A menu of case
options appears, as shown below.
Step-by-Step: Change Case
2. Click UPPERCASE. All letters are capitalized.
3. With the text still selected, click the Change Case
button again and select lowercase.
4. With the text still selected, click the Change Case
button again, then click Capitalize Each Word.
5. Select Ymca. Click the Change Case button again
and choose UPPERCASE.
6. Click in a blank area of the document to deselect the text.
Highlighting Text
• The Highlighting tool in the Font group enables you to apply
a highlighting color across text to stress the importance of
that text and draw attention to it quickly.
• In this exercise, you learn to use Word’s Text Highlighting
feature to add highlighting color to selected text.
• To highlight text, first select the text you want to emphasize,
then click the Text Highlight Color button in the Font group
and select the color of your choice.
• To remove highlighting, select the highlighted text and
choose No Color from the Text Highlight Color menu
Step-by-Step: Highlight Text
1. In the Font group, click the Text Highlight Color
button. Place your insertion point within the document,
and notice that Highlighting is turned on and the pointer
changes to a highlighter pen icon.
2. Under the Core Express heading in your document, select
the last sentence, This new class is open to all fitness
levels! When you release the mouse button, the text is
highlighted in yellow.
3. Click the Text Highlight Color button again to turn
off Highlighting.
4. Select the text you highlighted in step 2. Click the drop-
down arrow beside the Text Highlight Color button. A
menu of colors appears, as shown below. Click turquoise
(the third color
from the left in
the top row of
the menu).
Notice the
highlight color
in the text and
the Text Highlight
Color button in the Ribbon has changed to turquoise.
5. Select the text again. Click the Text Highlight Color
button again to remove the highlight color by selecting
No Color.
6. SAVE the document with the same filename in the lesson
folder on your USB flash drive.
Using the Format Painter
• To format your text so that it has the look and feel you want,
you may need to copy existing formatting.
• The Format Painter helps you copy formats to use in other
areas of the document without having to repeat the same
steps.
• The Format Painter command is located in the Clipboard
group on the Home tab.
• It is used to copy attributes and other formatting from one
block of text and apply them to other selected text within
the document.
Using the Format Painter
• When you activate Format Painter, the mouse pointer
becomes a paintbrush.
• Clicking once on the Format Painter button enables you to
copy and apply the format once; double-clicking allows you
to apply the copied format to as many locations as you
wish.
• In this exercise, you learn to use the Format Painter to copy
and apply formatting to selected text.
Step-by-Step: Use the Format Painter
1. Select the Active Older Adults heading.
2. On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click the Format
Painter button once; Format Painter copies
the formatting from your selected text, and the pointer
changes to a paintbrush icon when you point to text.
3. Use the paintbrush pointer to select the next heading,
Boot Camp. The copied format is applied, and the Format
Painter is turned off.
4. With Boot Camp still selected, double-click the Format
Painter button. Notice the status bar
message “Use the mouse to apply the previously copied
paragraph formatting onto other text, or press Esc to
cancel.” Notice also that the mouse pointer becomes a
paintbrush icon when you place it over text. You will now
be able to apply the same formatting to several items in
the document.
5. Select the next heading, Cardio Combo. The copied format
is applied.
6. Select the next heading, Cardio Kickboxing. The copied
format is applied again.
7. Select the remaining headings to apply the copied format.
When you are finished with the last heading, click the
Format Painter button to turn it off.
Formatting with Styles
• Word provides predefined Quick Styles for formatting
documents instantly with a number of characters and
paragraphs attributes.
• Modifications can be made to existing styles, or new styles
can be created and placed in the Quick Styles list, current
document, or template.
• In this exercise, you learn to apply a style and to modify an
existing style.
• The Styles window lists the same Quick Styles displayed in
the Styles Gallery.
• When you point to a style in the list, a ScreenTip displays
the style’s properties.
Formatting with Styles
• When you choose paragraph styles, the formats are applied
instantly to all text in the paragraph where the insertion
point is located, whether or not that text is selected.
• Styles created for paragraphs are marked in the Styles
window by a paragraph mark to the right of the style name.
• Character styles are applied to individual characters or
words that you select.
• Character styles have a lowercase letter a beside them.
• Sometimes, a style can be used for either paragraphs or
characters. These linked styles have a paragraph symbol as
well as a lowercase a beside them. Select the text to which
you want to apply a linked style.
Applying Styles
• In this exercise, you learn to use Word’s Quick Styles to
apply paragraph styles and character styles to selected text
and paragraphs within your document.
Step-by-Step: Apply a Style
1. Select the Active Older Adults heading. In the Styles
command group on the Home tab, click Heading 1. The
style is applied to the heading.
2. Use multi-selection to select all the headings, then click
Heading 1. The Heading 1 style is applied to all the
remaining headings.
3. In the second sentence of the
Active Older Adults description,
select low-impact. In the Styles
group, click the dialog box launcher.
The Styles window appears, as
shown at right.
4. Point to Subtle Emphasis in the
Styles list. Notice a ScreenTip
appears and the lowercase a to the
right of the style name becomes an
arrow. Click Subtle Emphasis. The
style is applied to the selected text.
5. In the Boot Camp description, select challenging and click
Subtle Emphasis in the Styles window.
6. In the Core Express description, select strengthen and click
Subtle Emphasis in the Styles window.
7. In the Indoor Cycling description, select high-energy and
click Subtle Emphasis in the Styles window.
8. In the Yoga description, select breathing and relaxation
and click Subtle Emphasis in the Styles window. Deselect
the text. Click the X to close the Styles window.
Modifying Styles
• You can make modifications to an existing style using the
Modify Style dialog box.
• Word also gives you the option of where to place changes
made to styles, such as adding them to the Quick List,
current document, or applying them to new documents
based on a template.
• In this exercise, you learn to use the Modify Style options to
modify styles in Word.
Modifying Styles
• To change an existing style, right-click
the style’s name in the Style window,
then click Modify, as shown at right.
Character attributes can be applied
to a style by clicking on the Bold
button, Italics button and/or the
Underline button. Similarly, clicking
the drop-down arrow for Font and Font
Size allows you to adjust both of these
settings.
Modifying Styles
• The Modify Styles dialog box has options for where to place
the new modified style. The modified style can be placed on
the Quick Style list so you can access it quickly.
• Selecting the option to save the style only in this document
will affect only the current document.
• Selecting the option for new documents based on a
template ensures that the same style is applied.
Step-by-Step: Modify Styles
• USE the document that is open from
the previous exercise.
1. Under Change Styles in the Style
group, click the drop-down arrow to
display the Styles window. Select
Subtle Emphasis, then right-click to
display the Subtle Emphasis menu,
as shown at right.
2. Click Modify. The Modify Style dialog
box appears, as shown on the
next slide.
3. Click the Bold
button.
4. Click the
Font Color drop-
down arrow,
then select red
in the Standard
Colors section.
Notice the
preview in the
dialog box
changes.
5. Click the Add to Quick Style List check box to clear it. The
modifications you just made will apply to this document
and not on the Style list, as shown on the previous slide.
6. Click OK.
7. Select Heading 1, right-click to display the Heading 1
menu, then click Modify.
8. In the Modify Style dialog box, click the Font Color drop-
down arrow. From the drop-down menu, choose red.
9. Open the Font Size drop-down menu and select 14.
10. Click the Add to Quick Style list check box to clear the
check mark. The modifications made will apply to this
document and not on the Style list.
11. Click OK. All the headings with the Heading 1 style update
automatically to the new color and size.
your USB flash drive. CLOSE the file.
• CLOSE Word.
Removing Text Formatting
• When you are formatting documents, sometimes you need
to try a few different options before you get the appearance
you want.
• Clearing unwanted formatting is easy using Word’s Clear
Formatting button.
Using the Clear Formatting Button
• The Clear Formatting button is located in the More area of
the Styles group.
• Click the drop-down arrow to display a menu that lets you
clear formatting from selected text.
• In this exercise, you learn to use the Clear Formatting
button.
Step-by-Step: Use the Clear Formatting Button
1. Select Active Older Adults. In the Styles group, click the More
drop-down arrow, then click Clear Formatting . The
formatting is removed and only plain text remains.
2. Press and hold Ctrl and select Boot Camp; continue to hold
the Ctrl key to select the remaining headings, then click the
Clear Formatting button in the Styles group. (By holding
the Ctrl key, you can use multi-selection to select non-
adjacent text.) Deselect all text and click the X to close the
Style window.
3. SAVE the document as classes_6 in the lesson folder on your
USB flash drive.
• CLOSE Word.
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