Lesson 5: Word processor – fun with colours, highlight , etc.

AIM

In this lesson you will learn:

How you can change type and size of fonts

How to play aroud with fonts, like changing font colour, highlight, etc.

LESSON OUTCOME

After you have studied this lesson, you will be able to:

Play aroud with fonts, like changing font colour, highlight, etc.

Text processing or Word processing is the use of a computer to manipulate text. Examples of word processing functions include entering, editing, rearranging, sorting, storing, retrieving, displaying, and printing text.

A word processor enables us to create a document, save it, display it on a screen, modify it and print it. Word processors that support only these features are called text editors.

Most word processors allows you to change fonts within a document. You can change the fontsize, the typeface , etc. The text can be shown in bold, italics, or underlined.

How to format text in OpenOffice Wordprocessor?

Some simple formatting changes we can make in Writer are as follows:

• Change typeface (A typeface is similar to a handwriting: for example, this is Arial; this is Times New Roman.)

• Change font size (Makes the text larger or smaller.)

• Change font style (Puts the text in italics or bold or both.)

• Change font colour (This is red, this is blue)

• Change background colour (The background is currently white. It can be changed.)

For example, consider the following line:

“Hello! My name is Suppandi.”

Following are some of the ways the same text can be written:

Hello! My name is Suppandi.

Hello! My name is Suppandi.

 Hello! My name is Suppandi.

Hello! My name is Suppandi.

The following figures show some of the tool bar shortcuts available for formatting text. These can be applied after selecting the text to be formatted using the mouse.

Work Sheets

1. Label each figure with the different font styles (given) that you feel are most appropriate:

( Bold, Italics, Regular, Underlined)


2. Match the following tool bar shortcuts with their functions.


3. Tick the correct one.

Tool bar shortcut to make a letter 'Bold'


Tool bar shortcut to underline a letter


Activities

In Lab

1. Ask the students to type the following. Then let them change the text to their favourite colour.

Hello! My name is <your name>.

I study in Class III.

2. Type the number 5 in a large size in OpenOffice Writer. Then ask the students to make it 55555 without using the keyboard. [Hint: Use the mouse to copy and paste.]

3. Type out:

Apple Orange Banana

i)Ask the students to use Copy-Paste so that the line is repeated three times as follows:

Apple Orange Banana

Apple Orange Banana

Apple Orange Banana

ii)For the first line, ask the students to change the font colour of each word to the colour of the fruit.

iii)For the second line, ask the students to highlight the black text with the colour of the fruit.

iv)For the third line, first highlight with the respective colour, and repeat the same for the font colour too.

[ The final effect should be as seen in this figure]

4. Type RATS in a large size in OpenOffice Writer. Then ask the students to change this to STAR without using the keyboard. Once they do this ask them to change STAR to STARS. [Hint: Use the mouse to cut and paste or copy and paste.]