Formatting Fonts

Quick reference

• 00:04 We're gonna continue on with the same letter from the last lesson, but
• 00:07 I do wanna open up my ribbons this time.
• 00:09 So I'm going to double-click on the Home ribbon to open up all my tools, so
• 00:12 you can see this little group here called the Font Group.
• 00:15 This is our Font Style, our Font Size, the Font Bigger,
• 00:19 Font Smaller Change case, if I wanna change the case of the sentence.
• 00:24 And just a little tip for you, any button with the letter A on it, means text, okay?
• 00:30 So that just means basically text color, text size,
• 00:33 change case, text art, I just wanna point that out to you.
• 00:37 It'll help you as you use other softwares, all right, let's go ahead and get started.
• 00:41 Now, the computer will only format what you have selected.
• 00:44 So if I'm looking at the word, November, and I clicked into it,
• 00:47 I actually haven't selected the word, I've just put my insertion point within it.
• 00:51 To select it, you have to click and drag to select it, now, as soon as I let go my
• 00:56 mouse from my click and drag up pops a little tool, this is called the Mini Bar.
• 01:00 Now, notice the buttons on this mini bar happen to match the buttons right
• 01:04 up above, in my ribbon.
• 01:06 So the lesson here is that, you have a choice,
• 01:07 you can use the buttons on the ribbon or as soon as you select the word you can
• 01:11 choose to use the buttons that are right there within a corner inch of your mouse.
• 01:15 Not such a big deal when I'm at the top of my document in the page,
• 01:18 what about when I'm down here within this paragraph?
• 01:21 So, if I click and drag this paragraph, look at this,
• 01:25 all the buttons I need are right beside within a quarter inch of my mouse.
• 01:28 Which means I don't have to travel my mouse way up to the ribbon to
• 01:31 use these buttons, and then way back down.
• 01:34 I just click and drag and there's the buttons right beside it.
• 01:36 It's very convenient to have that mini bar show up where you need it.
• 01:40 All right, let's go ahead and
• 01:41 change some things. First of all I'm going to double click the word November.
• 01:44 Double click, selects the word, whoops, double click selects the word,
• 01:47 triple click, one, two, three, selects the entire line.
• 01:51 I'm gonna go and select the line, I'm gonna change this font to Arial, and
• 01:54 I'm gonna change this size to size 14.
• 01:57 Notice that it looks a lot different from the rest of my letter, now,
• 02:00 another thing I'm going to do is scroll down to the bottom and the word Sincerely,
• 02:04 I'm going to change that font to Script.
• 02:07 You can actually type your way to a certain font style 'cause it's
• 02:12 a very long, long list of fonts.
• 02:16 So sometimes typing your way to the font is faster than scrolling to it, and
• 02:21 I'll make that a size 12, here we go.
• 02:23 So I've got the word Sincerely, tells me it's a script font,
• 02:27 I'm gonna scroll up and the November says Arial font, and
• 02:31 the document, the paragraph, says Calibri font.
• 02:34 Well, I've chosen three fonts, and as I click on each one, notice that it changes
• 02:39 up on my toolbar, but now let's select all, let's select the entire document.
• 02:44 Two choices, Ctrl + A means select all, Ctrl + A,
• 02:48 didn't matter if it's a hundred pages you just selected at all.
• 02:52 Or, if you move your mouse into the left-hand margin a triple click, one, two,
• 02:56 three, in the left margin is the same as a select all,
• 02:59 please notice on my mini bar notice.
• 03:02 This is blank, my font style as blank,
• 03:04 my font sizes blank same as up above, they're blank, the reason is.
• 03:09 I just selected the entire document but
• 03:11 within it are three different font styles and three different font sizes.
• 03:14 I have confused the computer, it has no idea what I want.
• 03:18 So, this is great time to set it all at the same time.
• 03:21 So again, I select all one, two, three, select the entire document and choose one
• 03:25 last time what I want the font styles to be, and I'm going to go with Arial.
• 03:31 There's Arial Narrow, that's fine, and I'll go with a size 12,
• 03:34 just to make it all uniform.
• 03:36 There we go, I changed it one last time, now when I triple click in the margin,
• 03:40 one, two, three, notice my font styles stay the same,
• 03:43 it knows exactly what I want.
• 03:45 One more thing, I wanna show you how to change font color.
• 03:47 So notice the word Video, when I double click a word, it selects a word,
• 03:51 triple click selects the entire paragraph.
• 03:54 So I'm gonna double click a word, and
• 03:56 on my mini bar is a little letter a which means font color.
• 03:59 Click on that, that turned it red, I'm gonna click another word, video.
• 04:03 Instead of red, I'm gonna hit the drop down beside it,
• 04:05 and I'm gonna choose green.
• 04:07 And one more, there's another word video right over here.
• 04:10 Double click to select the word, and I'm gonna choose blue for that one.
• 04:13 So this is how you can change font styles, font sizes,
• 04:17 font colors just to dress up and make your document look nice and
• 04:21 professional or personal, depending on your preferences.

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