Microsoft 365: Word Intermediate (2023): Customized Formats

Name: Microsoft 365: Word Intermediate (2023): Customized Formats
Author: Catherine Smith

Learn to apply basic and advanced character formatting in Microsoft 365 Word

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Hello, my name is Catherine Smith, and in these lessons I will be showing you how to access advanced formatting options within Word. We will also learn to customize, bullet, and numbered lists and work with themes within the Word desktop app. Let's begin by creating two sample paragraphs, each containing eight sentences. If you would like to follow along, you can simply place your cursor on a blank page, type an equal sign, lowercase r, a, n, d, and open left parentheses, to comma eight and a closed parentheses. Pressing Enter will provide the two paragraphs, each containing our eight sentences. This random function provides an efficient way to create boilerplate text for the purpose of lessons and learning. Let's start by selecting the first paragraph within the document. Using your mouse into the middle of the paragraph and simply three rapid clicks, triple click, will allow the paragraph to be selected. You'll notice if you look at the Home tab on the ribbon, you'll see a set of options which apply to any selected characters. They qualify as our character formatting options. They start with the font, then the size, font grow, and font shrink. Then we come to the bold, italic, and underline toggle buttons. They're toggle buttons because you can toggle them on, toggle them off, as needed. A strike-through is an option which isn't used as often as some of the others, but there are times within the context of a certain type of information you may want to print a document with this strike-through appearing on the text. Again, another toggle button where you can turn it on and turn it off as needed. We have an efficient way to change the case of your text. If, for example, you'd like your text to appear in all uppercase, or lowercase, or sentence case that can be easily accomplished through the use of the Change Case option. We have a highlighter, and we have a series of colors which can be applied to your type. It will adjust the font color. My ellipsis provides a few additional font options, and clearing the formatting lets me start from the beginning. Now, beyond my character formatting options, I will see paragraph formatting options. In order to make this distinction, if I simply click anywhere within this paragraph, and I choose from among the paragraph formatting options, you'll notice that the setting, the button applies to the entire paragraph. So it is not technically necessary to select the entire paragraph due to the fact that the option I'm accessing is classified as a paragraph formatting option. Another option which will allow me to increase the left indent of the entire paragraph is called increase indent, and you'll observe by looking at the ruler that each time you click increase indent, your indent markers advance forward half an inch. Decrease indent brings your margin for the paragraph back out toward the left half an inch, and again, the indent markers provide a visual for me to see exactly what's going on. Now, what if I don't see the ruler? Under view, I can turn my ruler on or off. It's my preference to have the ruler appearing on my screen. I'm going to go back to the home tab on the ribbon, and I'm going to decrease the indent to bring the text back out to the margin. Then I'm going to change my alignment back to left alignment. So as I look through the options on the ribbon, I clearly see options which will apply to my characters within the document, options which will apply to my paragraphs within the document, including the styles dropdown. Stay tuned for the next lesson where I will be showing you how to use a few advanced character formatting options using the word desktop app. Thanks for watching.

Intermediate Provider : Catherine Smith 4 Lessons · 23m in English

Course Description

Microsoft Word offers a variety of formatting techniques that can enhance the reader’s experience. We’ll discuss various methods of applying character formatting. While commonly used options such as font, color, size, and highlighting are available in the online version, if advanced character formatting is needed, we’ll move the document into the Word desktop app. The app offers the use of expanded options such as character spacing, scale, and position, and also the ability to add text effects. Themes take a comprehensive approach to document creation and formatting, building upon the proper use of styles. We’ll compare the Themes feature in the desktop version of Word with the Designer feature in Word online.

In this series of lessons, you will learn to apply basic and advanced character formatting features to selected text. We’ll go over moving your document from Word online into the Word desktop app to access select formatting features. Within the desktop app, we’ll explore the Themes feature.

What You'll Learn

Apply basic and advanced character formatting to selected text in Microsoft Word
Use character spacing, scale, position, and text effects in the Word desktop app
Move a document from Word online into the Word desktop app to access select formatting features
Customize lists using the Word desktop app
Work with the Themes feature in the Word desktop app
Compare the Themes feature in desktop Word with the Designer feature in Word online

Key Takeaways

Microsoft Word offers a variety of formatting techniques that can enhance the reader's experience.
Common character formatting options such as font, color, size, and highlighting are available in the online version of Word.
Advanced character formatting features like character spacing, scale, position, and text effects require moving the document into the Word desktop app.
Themes take a comprehensive approach to document creation and formatting, building upon the proper use of styles.
The course compares the Themes feature in desktop Word with the Designer feature in Word online.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Word intermediate course cover?

It covers applying basic and advanced character formatting to selected text, moving a document from Word online into the Word desktop app to access select formatting features, reviewing list options, and exploring the Themes feature within the desktop app.

Why do I need the Word desktop app for this course?

While common options such as font, color, size, and highlighting are available in the online version, advanced character formatting such as character spacing, scale, position, and text effects requires moving the document into the Word desktop app, which offers these expanded options.

What is the difference between Themes and the Designer feature?

Themes take a comprehensive approach to document creation and formatting, building upon the proper use of styles. The course compares the Themes feature in the desktop version of Word with the Designer feature in Word online.

What skills will I gain from this course?

You will build skills in Microsoft Word, word processing, document formatting, formatted text, the Common Intermediate Format, and Microsoft Office XML Formats.

What lessons are included in this course?

The lessons are Advanced Formatting, Using Character Spacing Options in Word Desktop, Customizing Lists With Word Desktop, and Working With Themes in Word Desktop.