Format Text with Fonts and Colors

Quick reference

• 00:05 Hello, in this lesson, we're gonna talk about formatting text with fonts and
• 00:09 colors.
• 00:10 I've got an exercise file ready for you in the video files, so please download that.
• 00:15 We'll go ahead and use a blank document and type your own text and color.
• 00:19 Topic one, bold and red.
• 00:22 The base rule is this, you've got to highlight what you wanna work with.
• 00:25 Just because I'm looking at something doesn't mean I'm clicked on it.
• 00:29 So make sure you've highlighted.
• 00:30 Now I can do a click and
• 00:31 drag, I can double click just to select a word, I can triple click to select an
• 00:36 entire paragraph, in this case a paragraph is only one line.
• 00:40 I can float my mouse off to the left in the margin, and select an entire line.
• 00:46 Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead and select this particular line.
• 00:49 When I highlight the line, a mini bar comes up,
• 00:51 which is kinda nice because it has bold, italicized, underline.
• 00:54 It has some coloring here so if I want to make this one red, I can make it red.
• 00:58 If I wanna bold, I can just click on Bold, there you go.
• 01:02 So, basically, we're going to do what the line tells us to do, Bold and Red.
• 01:06 Let's go ahead and do the next one.
• 01:07 Topic 2, Italicize and Blue.
• 01:09 Now, whenever I highlight, the mini bar comes up,
• 01:11 I like that cuz it's right where I need it.
• 01:13 I like it, it's convenient.
• 01:15 But let's remember that on the home ribbon, there's all our font group,
• 01:18 and everything.
• 01:19 Not all of these items are on that mini bar.
• 01:21 Right over here I'm going to click access bar,
• 01:23 it's got some font tools as well, all right?
• 01:26 So let's go ahead, and this time I'm going to hit italicize and
• 01:29 then we're going to make changes to blue.
• 01:31 So, I hit the drop down arrow on my font color and choose any one of this blues,
• 01:35 there we go.
• 01:36 Now, number three, let's see, underlining green.
• 01:39 So I'll go ahead and click the underline on my home ribbon and
• 01:43 I will choose any green color, there we go.
• 01:46 This one is strikeout or strikethrough, so the strikethrough is not on my minibar,
• 01:52 it is only on here on my font group and its called strikethrough.
• 01:56 When I click it, it's gonna put a line right through all that text there.
• 02:00 Used often in legal offices, where they'll strike through things instead of deleting
• 02:04 them and then re-type text.
• 02:06 Okay, and then bold italicize underline on this particular one, I'm going to use my
• 02:11 keyboard to apply the bold with control b, italicize control i, underline control u.
• 02:18 But,what I want you to see is when I use this on the keyboard, you're gonna see
• 02:21 real buttons lined up right up here on the home menu, it's kinda cool.
• 02:25 So, control B, lights up the B, control I lights up the I, and
• 02:29 control U, so I did the bold, italicize, underline.
• 02:33 Now, in this particular case, I like that a lot, I wanna use that.
• 02:38 But I want to now apply everything I just did, those three steps of that underline,
• 02:43 I want to apply all those steps to the next line.
• 02:47 Okay, text of topic four.
• 02:49 So we're going to use a paint formatter, and that is on my quick access bar,
• 02:54 it is on my home ribbon, it is also,
• 02:57 when I double click, it also happens to be on my minibar, It's called format painter.
• 03:01 So I select the word with all the style I like,
• 03:07 I hit my format painter, my mouse turns into a little tiny paintbrush, and
• 03:11 I can actually just wipe that paintbrush right over any other word, and
• 03:15 there it applies all those fonts right there.
• 03:17 Isn't that great?
• 03:17 I love the format painter.
• 03:19 Now, as far as the bold, italicize, underline with the keyboard,
• 03:24 I do wanna point that out to you, when you float your mouse on any one of these
• 03:27 buttons, notice down below, it's teaching you what to use on the keyboard.
• 03:31 So bold says Ctrl+B, the I says Ctrl+I, the U says Ctrl+U.
• 03:37 It's teaching you, all you have to do is read and learn and
• 03:40 decide if you want to try that or not.
• 03:42 Okay, one last little bit of magic in here, it's called a drop cap.
• 03:46 I'm gonna highlight just the first letter of this paragraph.
• 03:49 And this feature is not on the Home ribbon,
• 03:51 it's actually on the Insert ribbon.
• 03:53 Way over here is a little feature, a text feature called Drop Cap.
• 03:58 When I hit the drop-down arrow, I have three options.
• 03:59 I have None, Dropped, and In margin.
• 04:04 So I'm just floating my mouse, and you can see how it affects it.
• 04:08 You'll see this often in books, or
• 04:11 magazine articles, often use the drop cap feature, and so I'll do this one, and
• 04:16 do this one in margin, so you can see how it totally changes it.
• 04:19 It just takes the first letter of the first word and adds a little style to it,
• 04:24 that's all that is.
• 04:25 So, all right, that's it for this lesson.
• 04:27 Please practice those.
• 04:28 Get good at applying formats to your text.
• 04:31 Thank you.

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