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Word 2007 Tutorial | Fonts & Attributes

What's on this page... Changing Fonts, Size & Color Using the Font dialog box Changing Character Position & Spacing Aligning Text Highlight Text

Word 2007 Tutorial: Changing Fonts, Size & Color

Fonts with TT beside their names are TrueType fonts. These fonts look the same on-screen as they do when printed on paper. You can also find free downloadable Microsoft Word Fonts to add to your font list.

To change the font of text, follow these steps:

This Word 2007 Tutorial will show you that it's easy to change the font with the Font drop-down list.

To change the size of fonts text, follow these steps:

This Word 2007 tutorial will show you how to use the Font Size button to change the size of text, or type in a new size of your choice.

Using the Font Dialog box To change fonts and font sizes at the same time, click the Font dialog box expand button and make your choices in the Font dialog box.

To change the Color of fonts text, follow these steps:

To change the color of the Font is as easy as clicking a button.

Using the Font dialog box: You can also apply colors by using the Font dialog box. To get there, click the Font dialog box expand button from the Home tab.

Word 2007 Tutorial: Using the Font Dialog box

Q: What is Superscript and Subscript? Superscript makes characters smaller (than usual) and places the character above the baseline, e.g. 1st, 2nd, etc. Subscript makes the characters smaller (than usual) and places the character below the baseline, e.g. EGPlastic copyright etc.

To add effects to text using the buttons, follow these steps:

1.	Select the text you want to add an effect to.
2.	Click one of the effect buttons on the Home tab from the Font group.
	You'll notice that the effect added to your text will keep the selected button impressed. To remove this effect, just click on the button again.

To use the fonts dialog box, follow these steps:

1.	Select the text of which you want to change the font.
2.	Click the Font dialog box expand button from the Home tab.
	The Font dialog box opens. You'll see there are two tabs to choose from at the top of the window, for the moment, leave it at Font.
The Fonts dialog box allows you to do some more specific adjustments to your fonts text.
3.	Now, you can select the Font, Style, Size and Font Color that you want. You can also select a different Underline style from the Underline Style drop-down list.
4.	From the Effects option group, make your choices as wanted. You'll see as you checkmark an effect, the preview is updated. You can check and uncheck any combination of the choices, unless you are choosing the opposite of one another. For example, Strikethrough / Double strikethrough, Superscript / Subscript, Emboss / Engrave, Small caps / All caps. Play around with the choices and you'll see what each option does.
Hidden? Be careful when you choose the "Hidden" option. When you hide text, they disappear from the document page! Q: How do you get Hidden text "unhidden"? Click on the "Show/Hide" button. This will let the hidden text magically appear, allowing you to select it and return to the Font dialog box, and uncheck the "Hidden" option.
5.	Once you're done with your choices, click OK, for the changes to take effect on your text.
	Anytime that you want to remove some effects, select the text, go back to the Font dialog box and remove the checkmarks of those you don't want.

Word 2007 Tutorial: Changing Character Spacing and Position

To change character spacing or position, follow these steps:

1.	Select the text of which you want to change character spacing or position.
2.	Click the Font dialog box expand button from the Home tab.
	The Font dialog box opens. Click on the Character Spacing tab.
Use the Font dialog box to change the character spacing and position options of your text.
3.	Select a percentage from the Scale drop-down list box. This will increase or decrease the scale of your text on the page. From the Spacing drop-down list box, select Expanded or Condensed and choose a point size by which you want to expand or condense your text. From the Position drop-down list box, select Raised or Lowered and choose a point size by which you want to raise or lower your text. You can use any of the three options in combination with each other.
4.	Once you've made your choices, click OK, for the changes to take effect on your text.
	Anytime that you want to remove some effects, select the text, go back to the Font dialog box and select 100% or Normal of those that you want back to normal.

Word 2007 Tutorial: Aligning Text

Button Name	Keyboard Shortcut	What it does...
Align Text Left	CTRL + L	Lines up text along the left margin or left side of columns or cells.
Center	CTRL + E	Centers text, leaving space on both sides.
Align Text Right	CTRL + R	Lines up text along the right margin or right side of columns or cells.
Justify	CTRL + J	Lines up text on both the left and right margins or sides of columns or cells.

Word 2007 Tutorial: Highlight Text

To highlight text, follow these steps:

1.	After you've typed your text, click the drop-down arrow next to the Text Highlight  Color button.
2.	Click on the color that you want to highlight with. Your mouse-pointer changes and gets a little highlighter icon next to it.
	Highlight mouse pointer
3.	Click-and-drag with your mouse pointer over the text that you want to highlight.
4.	Click on the Highlight button again to return your mouse pointer to normal. Or, select Stop Highlighting from the drop-down list.

Q: How do I remove the highlight from text? Click the drop-down arrow next to the Highlight button. Choose No Color and drag over the highlighted text.

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