FORMAT
=> FONT
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Business Computing Tips
By K&K Fainges kfainges@bigpond.net.au
Formatting is everything to do with how the page looks. All the bells and
whistles can be found here.
The first option for formatting is FONT. Most of the formatting you want to
do to the words on the page is found here. Many of these commands are on the
formatting toolbar too, as they are the ones people tend to use most
often.
Before clicking on anything, remember to highlight the words you want to
pretty up first.
The first tab for FORMAT => FONT offers all the changes to the letters
themselves. By scrolling through, you can click on the type of font you want;
arial, times new roman etc., whether the font is bold (darker and thicker), or
italicised (slanted), or a combination, and the font size.
Below that, clicking on the drop arrows, will allow you to chose the font's
colour, underlining and underline colour. The colour options offer you a range
of common colours. If you don't see what you want, click on the More Colours
option and it will give you a wider choice. If you want it exact, click on the
Custom tab, and you can type in the exact hues you want.
Next are the Effects. Clicking in the little box beside the words will
apply that effect. A sample is shown in the window below, so if you aren't
sure, keep clicking until you have the one you want.
At the very bottom left hand corner of the dialog box, there is a default
button. Clicking on that will allow you to set this as the type of font that
all your documents use unless you tell it different.
The next tab on FORMAT => FONT is Character Spacing. Clicking on here
will let you adjust how large the letters are (Scale) the Spacing between the
letters, (condensed and close together or expanded), and the Position on the
line, either slightly above or below it. You can even Kern it, which is a
fancy way of making the letters fit together nicely. Again there is a preview
pane so you can experiment. If you want to add space between whole words or
lines, this isn't done here. That will be covered later in FORMAT =>
PARAGRAPHS.
The next tab does the really fancy stuff. Now this doesn't work anywhere
but on the computer screen, but you can add blinking lights, ants marching
around, a whole range of special effects. Just click on the one you want.
Once you have everything just the way you want it, hit the OK button.
More on FORMATTING next week. Which brings up a small point. I am turning
K-tips, into a full Word course, gathering together all the things I have ever
written into one place. Hence this Word, bit by bit series.
To help get that done, I will now be putting K-tips out weekly. If enough
people request it, I could change it to daily. So let me know which you prefer
people.
I hope I don't get to annoying :)
Karen
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Please feel free to pass it on to your friends, just let them know I wrote
it.
Karen Fainges holds a Bachelor of Business, and a Grad. Cert of Vocational
and Educational Training. All this is nice but it's the 14 years of having to
make sales or starve that makes her think she has really learnt what does and
doesn't work. A tutor for all ages, she specialises in helping people get
started on the long road to technology.
"It has to be practical, it has to be cheap, and it has to work."
