Practice with the FONT Group

Quick reference

• 00:04 We'll go ahead and use more of the font options,
• 00:07 because it's actually really fun when you see what can happen, but
• 00:11 the serious business is the first four lines here, the case.
• 00:14 The uppercase, lowercase is all messed up on these first four lines, so
• 00:17 we're gonna use a change case button.
• 00:19 First of all, I do need to select the line where I want the case to change, so
• 00:23 I'm gonna click and drag this this line.
• 00:25 And of course my minibar does show up, but my change case is not there.
• 00:28 It is up here on the Home ribbon, and it's called change case.
• 00:32 When you hit the drop down arrow, now I can choose sentence case,
• 00:34 lower, upper, capitalized, or toggle case.
• 00:37 In this case, I do want this sentence to change to sentence case,
• 00:41 which means the first word will be capitalized, and
• 00:44 then there will be no period automatically at the end.
• 00:47 You actually have to type your own punctuation in there, okay?
• 00:50 But we fixed that one, now, this next one, I want this to be all lowercase.
• 00:54 So I'll select the line, come up here to my Change Case, and
• 00:58 I will choose lowercase.
• 01:00 The next one I want to be, Title case which is also called proper case, and
• 01:05 so every word will be capitalized.
• 01:08 So Title case is capitalize each word, click, and now,
• 01:12 this one I want to be all uppercase also known as It's All Caps.
• 01:16 Select that line, and choose UPPERCASE, and
• 01:19 now, this line was typed with cAPS LOCK ON.
• 01:22 Actually, it's hard to make that mistake anymore, because the computer will
• 01:25 recognize that you've done it, and they'll try to change it for you automatically.
• 01:29 In case it didn't happen though, you can toggle case, and switch it all around.
• 01:34 Now, I do wanna show you a little advanced one, change this one to small case or
• 01:38 to Small Caps, well, that's not a change case, it's actually a text.
• 01:42 So in the Font group on the dialog box operator, we'll click in here and
• 01:46 we're going to tell it, Small Caps just for that line,
• 01:49 and you can see the sample of what's about to happen.
• 01:51 So when I click OK, there we go, Small Caps it didn't matter if I had upper or
• 01:55 lower it's all small caps.
• 01:57 And I do wanna show this one, there is a keyboard command,
• 02:01 that will toggle you through just three of these options, and
• 02:03 it's the Shift+F3, so I'll select the entire line.
• 02:07 Now, I'm not gonna click anywhere on my ribbon, I'm going to hold down Shift and
• 02:10 my function 3, my F3 at the very top of my keyboard, Shift+F3.
• 02:15 His toggling me through, only three options that is kind of handy if that's
• 02:19 something you'd like to memorize kind of a great feature.
• 02:22 All right, let's move on to the next one H2O.
• 02:24 Now, if you have chemistry lessons in the past that,
• 02:27 that 2 should be under the line, it should be subscript.
• 02:31 So I'm gonna select just the 2, click and
• 02:33 drag over the top of it, right up here, we have the subscript.
• 02:37 Click that once and it drops it below the line of typing.
• 02:40 Now, that CO2, the 2 should be above the line, so I'll hit the Superscript.
• 02:46 I always remember these as submarines are below the water,
• 02:50 Superman is above the water.
• 02:51 So subscripts are below the line, Superscripts are above the line.
• 02:55 Now, the TM for trademark, that should be above the line, so I'll come up here and
• 02:59 I click the Superscript.
• 03:01 And then I wanna show you the TEXT EFFECTS BUTTON.
• 03:04 Now the Text Effects Button, it's hanging out right up here,
• 03:07 it looks like a glowing A right here.
• 03:10 And when you click on this, my goodness, look at all the options.
• 03:13 You can barely see the background of that line that I was working on,
• 03:17 you can barely see it changing.
• 03:18 But you can go in here, you can change Outlines,
• 03:21 we can add Shadow effects, Reflections, Glowing.
• 03:26 The whole point here is you don't have to reinvent cool styles.
• 03:30 This Stylistic Sets I gotta say, this is some great stuff.
• 03:34 No, of course it's not showing me really any great stuff right now, but here it is.
• 03:38 The arrow right over here, nope it's not showing me anything great.
• 03:41 But the reality is you don't have to reinvent things just go through here, and
• 03:46 if there's something you like just select it,
• 03:49 and then of course we can make the font size larger.
• 03:52 Right here I do wanna highlight this phrase,
• 03:55 like if this was a piece of paper I'd grab a highlighter, and I'd make it yellow.
• 03:59 So I can click it and then hit the highlighter right up here, or
• 04:03 I can change the highlighter to a different color like this bright blue.
• 04:07 And come in here you can see the little, tiny highlighter attached to my mouse,
• 04:11 and I can just highlight manually, and
• 04:13 of course turn that thing off when you're done using it.
• 04:16 Get up there and turn that thing off.
• 04:18 And his paragraph needs all the formatting removed.
• 04:20 So will triple click it, one, two, three, to select the entire paragraph, and
• 04:25 this button here is an eraser, Clear All Formatting, I can click that once.
• 04:29 This is also found earlier in the styles,
• 04:32 this also has a Clear Formatting button as well.
• 04:35 All right, that's it, go ahead and please practice.

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