Practice with the FONT Group

Quick reference

• 00:04 Hello, in this lesson I want to introduce to the rest of the buttons on
• 00:08 the Font group.
• 00:09 Just take a look at the HOME ribbon, in the Font group.
• 00:13 We've already worked with some of these, bold, italicize,
• 00:15 underline, the font style and size.
• 00:17 But there's a few more buttons on here that are worthy of reviewing,
• 00:20 simply because Microsoft gave them room on the ribbon.
• 00:23 So let's go ahead and get started.
• 00:25 Remember, the computer only does what you tell it to.
• 00:27 So make sure if you want to work with a certain sentence,
• 00:29 that you actually highlight that sentence.
• 00:32 Now that this one's highlighted, it says change this to sentence case.
• 00:35 Sentence case will actually capitalize the first letter
• 00:38 of the first word of the sentence.
• 00:40 So, I'm gonna move my mouse up here, and when you float your mouse on there
• 00:44 it'll tell you that this is Change Case, that's the correct button to use.
• 00:47 Hit the drop down and remember, continue to learn by reading these lists.
• 00:51 When you become familiar with what's in a list, you become a better computer user.
• 00:55 Go ahead and click on the first option that says sentence case, and
• 00:58 watch what happens.
• 00:59 The first word will be corrected and capitalized, and then, of course,
• 01:03 you will put a period at the end.
• 01:05 The next line says change this to all lowercase.
• 01:08 So I'm going to select the entire line, come up to the change case button,
• 01:12 and choose lowercase, so it will actually switch it from
• 01:16 a mistake of typing in all caps, it'll switch it all to lower case.
• 01:20 Now, it got a blue squiggle here because it says,
• 01:23 it's recognizing that that's a beginning of a line, and it wants to
• 01:28 contextually change it to a capital.
• 01:33 If I do a right click on there I can select the first word,
• 01:36 if you wanted to do that.
• 01:38 This line says change this to all caps.
• 01:40 So again, highlight the line, go up to the Change Case button, and
• 01:45 all caps simply means uppercase.
• 01:46 Go ahead and click on that, and they're all changed to uppercase.
• 01:50 This says change this one to title case,
• 01:52 which means every word will be capitalized.
• 01:55 So I click on this, and go ahead and choose Capitalize Each Word.
• 01:59 It used to say Title Case in the older versions,
• 02:02 now it just says capitalize each word.
• 02:04 Go ahead and click that, and sure enough.
• 02:06 See, do you see what's happening here?
• 02:07 You don't have to retype anything.
• 02:10 This was typed with Caps Lock on, so that's called toggle-case.
• 02:14 So at the drop-down arrow, toggle case will simply,
• 02:16 anything that's lower will be upper, and anything that's upper will turn to lower.
• 02:20 Go ahead and click it and watch a line.
• 02:22 There you go, all corrected.
• 02:24 Very nice.
• 02:25 Okay, moving on.
• 02:26 This next one is in chemistry, H2O, the 2 would be below the line.
• 02:32 So there's a button right up here that if you
• 02:35 come right up here to the font group and float your mouse, it says Subscript.
• 02:39 Now just like submarines are below the water, subscript is below the line.
• 02:44 Again, I've already told the computer what I want to work with, the number two.
• 02:47 So I highlighted the two.
• 02:48 Go ahead and click on subscript, and there you go.
• 02:52 It minimized it below the line.
• 02:54 Now, same with CO2.
• 02:55 I'm going to highlight the 2, come up to subscript and I'm going to click it,
• 03:00 and the 2 is below the line.
• 03:01 Now on trademark the TM would be above the line,
• 03:05 like Superman flies over the water, so the TM is gonna be over the line.
• 03:09 Superscript.
• 03:10 So I'm gonna float my mouse on the Superscript button, go ahead and click.
• 03:14 And there you go, the TM is over the line.
• 03:17 The next option is the text effects button.
• 03:20 I'm gonna highlight this little section and when I activate it,
• 03:24 it's this kind of glowing button right up here, it says Text Effects and Typography.
• 03:28 I'm going to go ahead and click on that and we have the effects showing up.
• 03:32 You can see what's happening as I float along,
• 03:33 you can see my text in the background changing.
• 03:36 I would never use this on a formal or
• 03:38 professional document, only something informal like a flyer.
• 03:41 Go ahead and choose one of them, and there you have it.
• 03:43 A nice little fun effect for whatever reason.
• 03:46 All right, this paragraph is a paragraph in a business letter,
• 03:51 and I want to highlight the phrase right here to make this phrase stand out.
• 03:55 Well, just like you can use a yellow highlighter on a sheet of paper,
• 03:58 you can actually highlight electronically with this button
• 04:01 called the Text Highlight Color.
• 04:03 Go ahead and click it.
• 04:04 I'm just floating my mouse along so you can see what happens.
• 04:06 And I'm gonna go ahead and choose the yellow highlight.
• 04:09 Keep in mind,
• 04:09 after you apply this, if you have a color printer this yellow will print, and
• 04:13 if you email this document to someone, the yellow highlight will follow it as well.
• 04:17 So just be aware of that.
• 04:19 And this paragraph needs all the formatting cleared from it.
• 04:22 So instead of you highlighting this, you can click and drag it, or
• 04:25 you can triple click, one, two, three, to select the entire paragraph.
• 04:29 So, when you highlight that and you wanna wipe the formatting from it
• 04:32 in one fell swoop, you simply come up here to this button
• 04:36 that looks like it has an eraser on it, and it says Clear All Formating.
• 04:41 Go ahead and click that, and there you go.
• 04:43 It takes it to the default settings.
• 04:45 Default means the factory settings.
• 04:47 And so, there you go.
• 04:49 You have basic wiped all formatting with one fell swoop.
• 04:52 All right that's it.
• 04:53 Please go ahead and practice, and it's quite fun learning those new buttons.

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