DTP Word 2002 Chapter 2 Preparing Internal Documents
Typography Terms Typeface: A set of characters with a common design and shape. Baseline: Imaginary horizontal line on which characters rest. Cap Height: Distance between the baseline and top of the capital letters. X-Height: Height of the font’s lowercase x.
Typography Terms (Cont.) Ascender: Parts of fonts that extend above the x-height. Descender: Parts of fonts that extend below the baseline. Monospaced: Each character takes up the same amount of space. Proportional: Varying amount of space.
Typography Terms (Cont.) Serif: A small stroke at the end of a character. Sans Serif: W/O small strokes at the end of characters. Legible: Higher character recognition BernhardMod BT (Serif) Tahoma (Sans Serif)
Font Size and Style Point Size: l/72 of an inch 4 categories of styles Normal (regular, roman) Bold Italic Bold italic Font dialog box or Font button on Formatting toolbar Ctrl + ] or Ctrl + [
Fonts (Cont.) Font colors at Font dialog box or Font buttons on Formatting toolbar Matching color at Custom tab Hue: color itself Luminosity: brightness of color Saturation: color’s intensity or: Red, Green, & Red settings
Special Characters Symbols: Use F4 to repeat Em Dash: Indicates a pause in speech En Dash: Indicates a continuation Smart Quotes: AutoCorrect dialog box
Customizing Templates Change fonts, sizes, colors, effects Expanded/condensed, lowered/raised character spacing Reverse text More/less leading Fill color and effects Shading, shadows, and 3-D Special characters & symbols
Customizing Templates (Cont.) Unique bullets Add borders Add graphics, photos, drawing objects, scanned images AutoText entries Backgrounds and themes Form fields mplateGallery
Word Layers Foreground Layer: Drawing objects, floating graphic Text Layer: Text and graphics Background Layer: headers & footers, watermarks Stacked Layers: AutoShapes
Watermarks Picture toolbar Image Control Watermark Send Behind Text Created in Header & Footer pane
Tables Insert Table button on Standard toolbar Table, Insert, Table Cell: Intersection of a row and column Tab Shift + Tab Control + Tab AutoFormat