Word Lesson 4

Formatting Text

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√ Fonts and Spacing

Text enhancements

  character spacing

  condensed

  expanded

  fonts

  font size

  font style

  points

  style

theme

Terminology

Part 1: Text Enhancements

Word offers many different ways to make your text standout.

Bold Underline Italics Shadow Emboss Superscript and Subscript And more

Fonts Font—a type design applied to

an entire set of characters, including all letters, numerals, punctuation marks and other keyboard symbols. Examples are Arial, Times New Roman, etc.

Font size—is the size of the letters or text. It is measured in points.

Points—is the measurement for font. There are 72 points in an inch.

Font style—changes the looks of a font. Examples are regular, bold, italic, and underline.

Font effects—include All caps, superscript, and outline. They are found in the Font Dialog Box.

Character Spacing

Character Spacing--The spacing between the text or letters is called character spacing.

Expanded-- When you choose expanded FOR SALE would look like this:

F O R S A L E Condensed-- When you choose condensed FOR

SALE would look like this: FOR SALE

Other Terms One quick and easy way to repeat character

formatting is by using Format Painter.

You should double click the Format Painter if you plan to copy the formatting to multiple locations.

Use the highlight to emphasize text when working only on the screen. This does not print out.

Highlight

Styles and Themes

Style—a predefined set of formatting options that have been named and saved.

For example, the Heading 1 style is Cambria font, 14 point, and blue.

Quick Styles—the built-in styles of Word

Themes—a coordinated set of fonts, styles, and colors

Clearing Formatting

Use the Clear Formatting command to clear manual formatting and styles

Part 2: Graphics Graphics—pictures and illustrations that

help illustrate the meaning of text and make the page more attractive

Clipart—libraries of artwork of common objects that comes with Office

They are already drawn or photographed and available for use in documents.

Columns Columns--formats a document into columns

Borders Borders--A border is a line or box that can be

added to text or paragraphs.

Box borders--A box border is a line that goes all around text or paragraphs.

Page borders--A page border is a line or design that goes around the edge of the paper.

Horizontal line—you can add a line above or under text or paragraphs by using a bottom or top border. They are used to separate and emphasize a section.

Shading

Shading--Shading adds a colored background to textbox. You can do this by formatting the text box to have a fill color.

Shading

Wrapping Text Around an Object or Graphics

Wrapping—wraps the font around the graphic In line with text

Square

Tight

Behind Text

In Front of Text

Cropping

Cropping—use this to hide parts of a graphic

Sizing—reducing or enlarging a graphic Scaling—The process of changing the size

of a graphic to a percentage of its original size—such as 50% will make it half as large.