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.