Styles Gallery

Quick reference

• 00:04 Hello.
• 00:05 In this lesson, I want to show you what the styles gallery does.
• 00:09 If you click on your home ribbon, over here on your right,
• 00:13 you have a whole section called Styles, and this is called a Gallery.
• 00:17 It simply shows you a picture of all the styles you're about to apply.
• 00:22 I wanna make sure I click on the title of my report, and now when I hit the drop
• 00:26 down arrow on the galleries button, you can float your mouse along these and
• 00:31 it will actually give you a preview of what's going to happen on your text, so
• 00:36 you don't have to commit to clicking on one of these.
• 00:39 You can go ahead and just float your mouse, and it'll move it around.
• 00:43 Now, I'm gonna go ahead and choose one.
• 00:45 Now, this one is named Intense Quote.
• 00:48 Let me see if I can get that tooltip, there it is.
• 00:50 The tooltip popped up Intense Quote.
• 00:52 I don't care that it's called an Intense Quote, I'd like it for
• 00:56 the title of my report.
• 00:57 So I'm gonna go ahead and choose that one, just go ahead and select it.
• 01:01 Again, it only applied to the line where my insertion point was.
• 01:04 So make sure that you have clicked where you want the style to apply, or
• 01:08 you can also highlight the text where you want the style to apply.
• 01:12 But clicking in that line is just fine.
• 01:16 All right. Now, I'm gonna go ahead and
• 01:17 apply topic one.
• 01:18 Again, up in the styles, hit the drop down arrow, and
• 01:22 we have one here that says, Heading 1.
• 01:24 And look what happened to my text, to my font, it became larger, and
• 01:29 blue, and in different font style.
• 01:33 Look at all the clicks I just saved that I didn't have to apply myself.
• 01:36 I'm gonna go ahead and choose Heading 1 on that one.
• 01:39 Click, and it applies.
• 01:40 Same thing for topic two.
• 01:42 We want to keep them uniform in design.
• 01:44 When you're doing a formal report, don't be playing around with a lot of fonts,
• 01:49 and sizes, and colors, and that kinda stuff.
• 01:52 Keep them uniform.
• 01:54 It helps the reader follow the path of what you're trying to say.
• 01:58 Now, subtopic to number two.
• 02:00 This one, instead of Heading 1 cuz it's gonna look just like my topics,
• 02:03 I'm gonna make it look different by using Heading 2.
• 02:06 It looks a little smaller.
• 02:08 Now, there's just also a Heading 3.
• 02:09 I can even make it look smaller.
• 02:11 It doesn't matter to anyone if I use heading two or heading three.
• 02:15 If you want smaller, use heading three.
• 02:17 I'm gonna go ahead with heading two.
• 02:19 And my last topic, I'm gonna go with the main heading one.
• 02:23 There we go.
• 02:24 Now, if I scroll down and look at this, I don't like the title of the report.
• 02:29 I like the design of it, the color of it, the position of it,
• 02:32 don't like the size of it.
• 02:33 So, I'm gonna select the title report, and up on my quick access bar,
• 02:39 I have my font size, or font style, font size, and my font increase button.
• 02:45 I'll go ahead and hit that a few times.
• 02:47 Size 20, looks fine to me.
• 02:49 And my last tip on reports is, again, about the fonts.
• 02:56 Don't play around with fonts a lot.
• 02:58 If you have more than three font styles and colors,
• 03:00 it'll look like you're experimenting, and
• 03:02 you're more interested in that then you were in the actual topic of your report.
• 03:07 So let's try to keep three or fewer font styles, and
• 03:11 that means variations like italicized and bold.
• 03:15 So right now, I'm going to select the entire document.
• 03:18 I'll use Control A on my keyboard.
• 03:19 Doesn't matter if it's one page or 100 pages,
• 03:22 Control A will select it all just like that.
• 03:24 And now, notice my font style and
• 03:26 my font size box are blended because there's a variation going on.
• 03:30 It doesn't know what I want so it blinked, blinked out so I'm gonna go ahead and
• 03:35 hit the drop down on the font style and I'm gonna make all of it a Calibre style.
• 03:40 I'm not gonna adjust the font size cuz I like the different
• 03:43 sizes that are going on.
• 03:45 When I click off of it, there we go.
• 03:47 At least, they're all the same font style now.
• 03:50 So my title report,
• 03:51 topic one, topic two, subtopic a little smaller, topic three gets larger.
• 03:56 This is how you keep someone focused on what you're saying without distracting
• 04:00 them with all the font styles.
• 04:02 And because of the style gallery, it's much faster to apply all of that.
• 04:07 All right.
• 04:08 That's my use a style gallery.
• 04:09 We'll see you in the next video.

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