Practice with the FONT Group

Quick reference

• 00:04 On your Home ribbon in the font group,
• 00:06 there's a few more items that are incredibly wonderful buttons.
• 00:09 You need to know about them, so we're going to use them right here.
• 00:12 Basically, sentence case is upper case, lower case, sentence case, title case.
• 00:17 So we're gonna go ahead and change this first line to sentence case.
• 00:20 Basically, we have to select the entire line and
• 00:23 then right up here we have a button that says change case.
• 00:26 When you click that drop down arrow, there's all your options.
• 00:29 Now the first one simply means sentence case, the first word must be capitalized.
• 00:34 When I click this, it will capitalize the first word it doesn't do anything else,
• 00:37 it doesn't add the period at the end, that is for you to add.
• 00:41 But, it will absolutely add the first word of the sentence capitalized,
• 00:44 it's wonderful.
• 00:45 Now the next one we want to change is all lower case in case you accidentally typed
• 00:49 all caps, you just click the drop down arrow on the case and
• 00:54 choose the lower case and looks what happens, magically.
• 00:57 Okay, changes to all caps.
• 00:59 Again, you have the drop down arrow change to upper case which is
• 01:02 all caps.There we go.
• 01:04 And this one, Title Case, means that every word should be
• 01:07 capitalized usually in the title of a report, so capitalize each word.
• 01:12 Also called title case.
• 01:14 Click that one, here you go.
• 01:15 See, you don't have to redo it all.
• 01:17 Even though, this one, it says, I mean, it stayed all upper case on that one.
• 01:22 It's okay, still capitalized.
• 01:25 Now, this was typed with CAPS lock on, so, this, we're actually going to toggle.
• 01:28 So, hit the drop down arrow and go to toggle case and
• 01:31 it will switch the bad stuff, okay?
• 01:34 So it's all good.
• 01:35 Okay, the next one is, let see, I've got a little textual error here so
• 01:39 whenever you see this squiggles, this blue squiggle just hit your right mouse button,
• 01:43 and choose the correction and that will take care of that little blue squiggles.
• 01:47 All right, now H2O.
• 01:49 Now if you're a chemist, you know that H2O, the two should be below the line, and
• 01:52 that is called subscript.
• 01:54 And right up here we have a little button,
• 01:55 it says subscript, with a little tiny 2 demonstrated below the line.
• 01:59 I'll go ahead and I've selected the 2 on H2O.
• 02:01 Click the subscript, there it go, drop below the line.
• 02:05 Now CO2, the two should be above the line.
• 02:08 Select the two, come up here to superscript, and click, and
• 02:11 there it goes above the line.
• 02:12 Now, I always remember these as submarines are below the water, superman
• 02:17 is over the water, so subscript is below the line, superscript is above the line.
• 02:22 All right, the trademark, the TM, that's gonna be superscript,
• 02:25 cuz we want the TM to be above the line, so we'll go ahead and click.
• 02:29 You may choose that one, there you go.
• 02:30 All right, the text effects button.
• 02:32 This is kinda cool, so I'm gonna highlight this one.
• 02:35 And right over here, we have this button.
• 02:36 It says text effects.
• 02:38 When I click on that one look at all the actions.
• 02:40 You can kinda see in the background what's happening to that text.
• 02:43 But as I float around, you just choose which one you wanna use.
• 02:46 I'll go ahead and use this one, it looks kinda cool, and
• 02:49 it's certainly not big enough.
• 02:50 So now I'm gonna make that even larger.
• 02:52 But that's how you get fancy text options is with the text vex.
• 02:56 All right, and you have all these other options with arrows.
• 03:00 You can spend a lot of time here doing whatever you want.
• 03:04 Just keep in mind that you reach a limit of time.
• 03:07 All right, in this one please highlight this phrase to make it stand out.
• 03:10 So I'm going to use a highlight option.
• 03:12 I selected that area that phrase.
• 03:15 Right up here, I have a highlight button.
• 03:16 I can make it yellow.
• 03:17 Or I can hit the drop down arrow and
• 03:18 I can choose a different highlight in the background.
• 03:21 But, it's all up to you which one you wanna do.
• 03:23 I have to reselect it, there we go, and now apply the new color.
• 03:28 Actually, I kinda like the yellow so.
• 03:30 I'll go ahead and leave it as yellow.
• 03:32 There we go, and this paragraph needs to have all the formatting cleared from it.
• 03:35 So I'm going to triple click to select the paragraph,
• 03:38 one two three, selects the entire paragraph and right up here,
• 03:41 this is called a Clear All Formatting button.
• 03:44 Click.
• 03:45 All gone, just like that.
• 03:46 I don't have to figure out what was applied.
• 03:48 I just hit the clear formatting button and it's gone.
• 03:50 All right.
• 03:51 Again, use those great, great stuff hidden up there, on that font group,
• 03:56 that are very valuable the day it comes that you need them.
• 03:59 All right. Thank you.

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