Basic editingMontse García #7

Basic textO There are two groups of text formatting

tools on the Ribbon: Font and Paragraph groups.

FontsO Fonts are sets of character, number and

symbols in a specific style or design.O It have two fonts: one for the headings

and one for the body text.

Applying font and effects

O The text can be boldfaced or italicized, underlined or formatted with other attributes such as strikethrough or shadow.

O Besides the standard font styles there are also a variety of special effects.

O You can also adjust character spacing to give your text a special look.

Copying characters formats

O Format painter: is a tool that copies formatting from one block of text to another.

This is for you to keep similar types of text formatted the same way.

IdentationO Determines how far from the text box’s

left and right margins the text appears.O There are two indentation setting. The first

one is Before text the second one has many types:

1. Hanging2. First Line3. None

Numbered ListsO Are used to procedural steps, action

items, or another information to order them.

O To turn off numbering, press Enter twice or click the Numbering button.

O You can change the numbering format, with parentheses or points or images.

…O For more numbering format, click Bullets

and Numbering on the dialog box.O You can use this dialog box to choose what

number to star the list with, change color, size.

WordArt…

You can change the style from: WordArt gallery, you can modify the fill or outline or apply a number of special effects.

… fill colorO The word art fill color is the color you

see inside the WordArt characters. You can change the color by using the color palette.

O You can also apply a effect fill like texture, gradient, or pattern.

O You can find that tab on the Format tab, WordArt.

Formatting text with WordArt styles

O You can apply WordArt style to any text slide.