As you’d already know, formatting is a way you
change your text colour, style and general appearance.
CHANGING FONT STYLE
Highlight the text you want to change its style
Click Font from the Format menu
Click font box and type “A”
Use the arrow keys to select (Up or Down Arrow)
the style you want
Click Ok
You can as well change font style by clicking FONT box from the formatting toolbar
then select the style you want.
Note that the reason why you type “A” in the first
place is to go to the beginning of the Fonts, since the Fonts are arranged
alphabetically i.e. A – Z.
HOW TO APPLY UNDERLINE
Highlight the text you want to Underline
Click U icon on the Formatting toolbar
OR
Click font from the Format menu
Click Underline box (none) and choose underline of
choice e.g Double, Single, Dotted, Dash etc.
Click Ok
HOW TO APPY BOLD AND ITALIC
Highlight Text
Click “I” icon on the formation toolbar
Or
Click Font from the Format menu
Click Italic
or Bold under Font Style then choose
Ok
Note that Bold does not enlarge your text but rather darkens it
HOW TO APPLY DOUBLE
STRIKETHROUGH
Double strikethrough is used to apply Naira Sign (N). Make sure you type “N” and highlight
it before going to Format. For instance if you want to type something like N5,
000, you must first of all type N5,
000 and then highlight the N before applying double strikethrough.
Highlight Text
Click Font from the Format menu
Click Double Strikethrough under Effects
Click Ok
Alternative, you can press Ctrl + D then press Alt + L.
This gives you double strikethrough.
HOW TO APPLY COLOUR
Highlight the Text you want to apply colour
Click Font from the Format menu
Click Colour box (Automatic) and select the colour
of your choice
Choose Ok
HOW TO APPLY SUPER AND SUB
SCRIPT (1/2)
This command is used to type (1/2).
The one (1) here is known as Supper Script, while the Two (2) is known as Sub
Scrip
Choose Font from Format menu
Select Super Script or Sub Script under Effects
and Choose Ok
HOW TO CHANGE FONT SIZE
Highlight Text
Click Font from the Format Menu
Select size from the Font size box and click Ok
Alternatively, you can click FONT SIZE box on the formatting toolbar then choose the size you
want.
PARAGRAPH COMMANDS
Paragraph commands are those commands that affect
a paragraph. The cursor is anywhere in that paragraph. Just give the relevant
command and it will affect all the lines in the Current paragraph. The commands
include ALIGNMENT, BORDER & SHADING,
INDENTATION AND DROP CAP.
HOW TO ALIGN PARAGRAPH
The Alignment command will determine how text will
be positioned within the margins. There are Left, Centre, Right, and Full
(Justify) Alignments. If the
lines in a paragraph align to the Left margin all
the lines starting on the same point. The paragraph has left alignment. Justified
is when the lines align on both left and right margins. Below is the
description of alignment tools on the toolbar.
To align to the right, click right align from the
formatting toolbar
To align to the left, click left align from the
formatting toolbar
To align to the centre, click centre align from
the formatting toolbar
To justify, click Justify from the formatting
toolbar
You can also press Ctrl + R for right align, Ctrl
+ L for Left, Ctrl + E for Centre and Ctrl + J for Justify.
ADDING BULLETS AND LINE
NUMBER TO YOUR PARAGRAPH
Bullets are used to emphasize or list points.
While the cursor is inside the paragraph you want
to
Apply a bullet, click Bullet and Numbering from
the
Format menu,
To apply bullet,
Click on Bullets
Click on your Choice bullet
To apply number,
Click on Numbering
Select your choice Number
ADDING BORDERS TO YOUR
PAGE
You can decide to add border to every page in your
document by choosing the page border and shading dialog box. You can also add
Art border to the page by choosing an Art from the list of Arts available in
the Box of the page Tab in the Border dialog box. To achieve this, click Format
menu, Click Borders and shading, click page Border tab, select a line style,
Choose Art, select Colour and Click Ok.
INSERTING A DROP CAP
A Drop Cap is used to enlarge the first
character/letter in a sentence or paragraph.
Place the insertion point (cursor) anywhere in the
paragraph
Click format menu
Click DROP CAP
Choose a position for the Drop Cap
(Either Dropped or In margin – practice the two to
see how it works)
Set the number of lines to drop
Click Ok
DIVIDING YOUR WORK INTO
COLUMNS
The column command is used to divide text
vertically on a page just as you have it in the pages of our newspapers and
magazines.
Click Column on the Format menu
In the Column dialog box, click presets of choice
e.g
One No
Subsidiary (Default)
Two To
divide Page or Paragraph
Three Three
Columns
Left Insert
two columns of which the left column is smaller than right
Right: Insert
two columns of which the right column is smaller than left
You can also set the number of columns in the
number of columns box and that should be between 1 and 12
If you want a line to separate the columns, mark
the “Line between” box
If you want equal columns, click the equal column
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Try practicing with the above example but remember
to click Ok
CHANGING THE CASE OF YOUR
TEXT
Select the text you want to change its
case, on the format menu, click change Case
and select the option you want.
Sentence Case: To
capitalize the first letter of the first Word in the selected text
Lower Case: Changes
all selected text to small letters
Upper Case: CHANGES ALL SELECTED TEXT TO CAPITAL LETTERS
Title Case: Capitalizes the first Letter of Each Word
Ctrl +
= Highlight a letter
Ctrl + Shift + =Highlight a word
