1. Character Formatting Lesson 3

2. Skills Matrix SKILL #MATRIX SKILL 2.1.1Apply styles 2.1.2Create and modify styles 2.1.3 Format characters

3. Software Orientation THE FONT GROUP Home tab on ribbon Contains most commands needed to format text

4. Manually Formatting Characters CHANGE FONTS AND FONT SIZES Font  Set of characters containing same design  Fonts have unique names

5. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) CHANGE FONTS AND FONT SIZES Character is any single…  Letter  Number  Symbol  Punctuation mark

6. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) CHANGE FONTS AND FONT SIZES Fonts measured in points Point size refers to height of characters 1 point = 1/72 of an inch

7. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) CHANGE FONTS AND FONT SIZES Select text Home tab, Font group Choose desired font face and attributes

8. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) CHANGE FONTS AND FONT SIZES Font options in Font dialog box  Click Font dialog box launcher  Choose desired options on Font tab

9. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) CHANGE FONTS AND FONT SIZES Font options on Mini toolbar  Select text  Right-click  Choose desired font and attributes from Mini toolbar

10. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) CHANGE FONTS AND FONT SIZES Increase/decrease font size  Select text  Click Grow Font button  Text size increases  Click Shrink Font button  Text size decreases

11. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) CHANGE FONTS AND FONT SIZES Serif fonts  Include tiny lines on ends of characters Sans serif fonts  No lines on ends of characters

12. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) APPLY SPECIAL CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES Change appearance of characters Give them special emphasis

13. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) Bold text  Select text  Click Bold button in Fonts group of Home tab OR  Right-click text and click Bold button on Mini toolbar APPLY SPECIAL CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES

14. Manually Formatting Characters (continued)  Click Font dialog box launcher and choose Bold OR  Press Ctrl + B APPLY SPECIAL CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES

15. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) APPLY SPECIAL CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES Italicize text  Select text  Click Italics button in Fonts group of Home tab OR  Right-click text and click Italics button on Mini toolbar

16. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) APPLY SPECIAL CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES  Click Font dialog box launcher and choose Italics OR  Press Ctrl + I

17. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) Underline text  Select text  Click Underline button in Fonts group of Home tab OR  Right-click text and click Underline button on Mini toolbar APPLY SPECIAL CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES

18. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) Click down arrow next to Underline button Choose underline style APPLY SPECIAL CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES

19. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) APPLY SPECIAL CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES  Choose More Underlines to open the Font dialog box OR  Click Font dialog box launcher and choose underline style

20. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) APPLY SPECIAL CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES  Click Underline Color to choose desired color

21. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) APPLY SPECIAL CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES Font color  Select text  Click Font Color button in Fonts group of Home tab to apply most recently used color

22. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) APPLY SPECIAL CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES  Click Font Color button in Fonts group of Home tab to apply most recently used color

23. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) APPLY SPECIAL CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES  Right-click text and click Font Color button on Mini toolbar OR  Click Font dialog box launcher and choose desired color

24. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) APPLY SPECIAL CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES Strikethrough Subscript Superscript

25. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) CHANGE CASE Home tab, Font group Click Change Case button

26. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) Five options CHANGE CASE

27. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) Sentence case  Capitalizes first word in each sentence CHANGE CASE

28. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) Lowercase  Changes all characters to lowercase CHANGE CASE

29. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) Uppercase  Changes all characters to caps CHANGE CASE

30. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) Title case  Capitalizes first character of each word CHANGE CASE

31. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) Toggle case  Changes each character to its opposite case CHANGE CASE

32. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) HIGHLIGHT TEXT Home tab, Font group Select text to receive highlighting Click Text Highlight Color button  Most recently used color is applied to selected text

33. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) Click Text Highlighting Color button  Option is turned on Click and drag across text to receive highlighting Click Text Highlighting Color button  Option is turned off HIGHLIGHT TEXT

34. Manually Formatting Characters (continued) HIGHLIGHT TEXT Click down arrow next to Text Highlight Color button  Choose from additional color choices

35. Copying and Removing Formatting USE THE FORMAT PAINTER Home tab, Clipboard group Select text from which to copy formatting Click Format Painter button Select text to receive formatting

36. Copying and Removing Formatting (continued) USE THE FORMAT PAINTER Click Format Painter button once  Apply formatting to single item

37. Copying and Removing Formatting (continued) USE THE FORMAT PAINTER Double-click Format Painter button  Apply formatting to multiple items  Click Format Painter button once to turn option off

38. Copying and Removing Formatting (continued) USE THE CLEAR FORMATTING BUTTON Home tab, Font group  Select text  Click Clear Formatting button

39. Copying and Removing Formatting (continued) Clear formatting from single item  Select single item  Click Clear Formatting button USE THE CLEAR FORMATTING BUTTON

40. Copying and Removing Formatting (continued) Clear formatting from multiple items at once  Select multiple items  Click Clear Formatting button USE THE CLEAR FORMATTING BUTTON

41. Formatting Text with Styles APPLY A STYLE Home tab, Style group Select text to receive style Click desired style in Style group

42. Formatting Text with Styles (continued) APPLY A STYLE Paragraph styles  Paragraph mark to lower left of style  Style applied to all text in the paragraph

43. Formatting Text with Styles (continued) APPLY A STYLE Character styles  Lowercase ‘a’ next to style  Style applied to only highlighted text

44. Formatting Text with Styles (continued) APPLY A STYLE Some styles may be used for either a paragraph or characters Point to style in Style list  Screen tip displays style properties

45. Formatting Text with Styles (continued) MODIFY A STYLE Home tab, Style group Right-click style from group Click Modify

46. Formatting Text with Styles (continued) MODIFY A STYLE OR Click arrow next to style name Click Modify

47. Formatting Text with Styles (continued) MODIFY A STYLE Choose desired style modifications Can add new style to Quick Style list

48. Formatting Text with Styles (continued) MODIFY A STYLE Word automatically renames style OR You can enter style name

49. YOU LEARNED HOW TO: Change fonts and font sizes Apply special character attributes Change case Highlight text Summary

50. YOU LEARNED HOW TO: Summary (continued) Use the Format Painter Use the Clear Formatting button Apply a style Modify a style