Format Text with Fonts and Colors

Quick reference

• 00:05 Formatting texts with fonts and
• 00:07 colors is one of the fun things about Microsoft Word.
• 00:10 The general rule of thumb is,
• 00:12 you must first have selected what you want to apply fonts and colors to.
• 00:17 So let's take a look at our Home ribbon.
• 00:20 Right up here, we have an entire set.
• 00:22 This is called the font group, and we have our font style, and size, and
• 00:26 all kinds of things we can do.
• 00:28 Plus we have a dialog box operator for even deeper and more advanced fonts.
• 00:33 I'll hit Cancel on that right now.
• 00:36 What I want to do is actually work right down here on the screen.
• 00:39 So I'm going to click and drag this very first line of topic 1.
• 00:42 Now, watch what happens when I let go.
• 00:44 The mini bar pops up.
• 00:46 And on the mini bar are the base level sets of fonts.
• 00:49 Well, since we're just applying bold and red here, let's go ahead and do that.
• 00:52 Notice, I'll click the B and the tooltip pops up, Ctrl+B.
• 00:57 And I want the color red.
• 00:58 Right now, mine is set for green.
• 00:59 So any button with the letter A on it means alphabet,
• 01:02 You're going to change alphabet, this time, color.
• 01:05 So I'll hit the drop-down and I'll choose red.
• 01:08 Okay, let's move on to the next one.
• 01:10 Topic 2, italicized and blue.
• 01:12 This time, I'll float my mouse in the left-hand margin.
• 01:15 Just click once to select the entire line and the mini bar pops up, and
• 01:19 I want to choose Italicize.
• 01:21 Tooltip says Ctrl+I, and I'll change the color to blue.
• 01:27 Okay, let's do some advanced stuff.
• 01:29 On topic 3, we want to apply underline, and green, and strike out.
• 01:32 So I'll select the line, but the mini bar doesn't have the strike out on it.
• 01:37 That's on the Home ribbon.
• 01:38 So eyeballs up to the top to the Home ribbon.
• 01:41 Here we go, we want the Underline button.
• 01:43 Tooltip says, Ctrl+U.
• 01:46 We'll change the font color to green.
• 01:49 And we want strike out, which is right here, also called strike through.
• 01:53 So I'll go ahead and click that, and it crosses it through.
• 01:57 All right, how about topic 4?
• 01:59 Go ahead and select the line.
• 02:01 This time, we're going to apply Bold, Underline, Italicize,
• 02:06 my goodness, all kinds of stuff, and we're going to make it orange.
• 02:10 The drop-down arrow and choose orange on this one.
• 02:16 Let's go ahead and take a look at the dialog box operator.
• 02:19 I'll click the little tiny arrow on the corner.
• 02:22 Let's take a look deeper, check this out.
• 02:23 We have strike through, and you can see the preview right here.
• 02:27 Turn that off, show Double strike through.
• 02:30 Look at that, my goodness, double strike through.
• 02:32 You can also apply Small caps, which will capitalize every letter,
• 02:38 but the first letter is slightly larger.
• 02:41 What about all caps?
• 02:43 Now, this is different than uppercase.
• 02:45 If I turn on uppercase or lowercase, it doesn't matter?
• 02:47 I turn on All caps, everything will be all capitalized.
• 02:51 What about Hidden?
• 02:53 Do I want to hide that text?
• 02:54 No, I don't, I'm going to leave it unhidden, and
• 02:57 I'll go ahead and click OK right here.
• 03:00 So what we've seen so far are three ways to find the fonts.
• 03:03 We can make a selection, find the minibar fonts,
• 03:06 we can come up to the Home ribbon, find the font group right here, and
• 03:11 we can open up the dialog box and find more font options in here.
• 03:15 Let's work on the paragraph.
• 03:16 This is really cool.
• 03:18 So this paragraph is part of an announcement flyer or
• 03:21 perhaps part of a story.
• 03:22 I want to add a drop cap to the first letter to make the first letter huge.
• 03:26 I don't even have to be clicked on the first word,
• 03:28 just be clicked into the paragraph.
• 03:30 Now, this is on the Insert ribbon, and it's way over on the far right-hand side.
• 03:34 There's a text group, and this button right here says, Add a Drop Cap.
• 03:39 When I hit the drop-down, notice I have Dropped cap, and I've In margin cap.
• 03:43 I'll choose Drop cap here.
• 03:45 And on the next paragraph, I'll do the same thing, but
• 03:49 I'll choose the In margin cap, okay?
• 03:52 Puts the first letter in the margin.
• 03:53 You've seen this in magazines, you've seen this on storybooks.
• 03:57 Notice also, we have Drop Cap Options on that list.
• 04:02 I could tell this to go five lines deep and hit OK, and
• 04:06 they're made it even larger.
• 04:08 Okay, this exercise was a good time to explore fonts and colors.

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