7 Learning Microsoft Word 2007 / Middle School Computer

Exercise 25 p.138-139 :

Skills Covered------>

·  Apply Font Effects
·  Font Color / ·  Highlight Text
·  Format Painter

Vocabulary______

Color Swatch: a block on a color palette that you click to select that color

Font Effects: formatting features used to enhance or emphasize text

Standard Colors: Ten primary and secondary colors

Theme: a set of coordinated colors, fonts, and effects

Theme Colors: colors assigned to an element based on the settings of the current theme

Notes______

I.  Applying Font Effects

a.  In Word’s Font dialog box you can select from a list of font effects for enhancing and emphasizing text.

b.  Three of the effects—Strikethrough, Superscript, and Subscript—are also available in the Font group on the Home Tab of the Ribbon.

c.  Hidden is also an option in the Effects area of the Font dialog box. Hidden text is not displayed on-screen or printed unless you select to display it.

d.  You can apply font effects to selected text, or select the effects before you type new text.

e.  You can apply more than one effect at a time.

II.  Font Color

a.  Use color to enhance text in documents that will be viewed on-screen or printed on a color printer.

b.  The most recently selected font color displays on the Font Color button. (see p. 139 for picture)

c.  To change font color, you select a color swatch from the Font Color palette available in the Font group on the Home Tab of the Ribbon, on the Mini Toolbar, or in the Font dialog box.

d.  On the palette, you can select from Theme Colors and Standard Colors. You can also select Automatic, which is the default color.

e.  Rest your mouse pointer on a swatch to see the color name in a Screen Tip, and to preview how the color would affect selected text.

f.  You can change the color of an underline independently from the color of the font.

III.  Highlighting Text

a.  Highlighting calls attention to text by placing a color background on the text.

b.  You can highlight text as a decorative or visual effect, but Word’s Highlighter feature is commonly used like a highlighter pen on paper to mark text that requires attention.

c.  Yellow is the default highlight color, but you can select a different color from the Text Highlight Color palette in the Font group on the Home tab of the Ribbon, or on the Mini Toolbar.

d.  Color Highlighting will print in color on a color printer and print in gray when printed on a black and white printer.

e.  The most recently selected highlight color displays on the Text Highlight Color button. (see p. 139 for picture)

f.  You can only apply a highlight to existing text.

IV.  Format Painter

a.  Use the Format Painter to copy formatting from existing formatted text to existing unformatted text.

b.  The Format Painter button is in the Clipboard group on the Home tab of the Ribbon.

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