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Microsoft Word - Formatting

Understand how to organize and present data in Word.

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  • 1. The Font Menu

    06:02
  • 2. Paragraph

    05:59
  • 3. Intro to Styles

    03:01
  • 4. Using Styles to Re-Order Quickly

    02:25
  • 5. Using Styles for Auto TOC Creation

    02:33
  • 6. Creating Styles

    03:18
  • 7. Adding Styles to the QAT

    03:19

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A look at the paragraph settings

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The paragraph menu is more about controlling how paragraphs organize themselves on the page rather than individual text formatting which was what we covered in the font menu. Unlike the font menu, most of these tools will apply to every character between two paragraph marks. Now, if you can't see the paragraph marks like I can't at the moment, we need to switch them on and that's this backwards P icon on the ribbon. So to do that, the keyboard shortcut is control asterisk or control shift eight, okay? And that will reveal the mark. So you can see here we've got one paragraph mark just next to where it says right align the text below, and then at the bottom of the Latin text, the first bit of Latin text, you can see another one, so if we're applying some of these commands they will actually apply to everything. It's not like in the font menu where you could make one letter red or something. It doesn't apply to everything. So for instance, if I want to indent I can indent partway through a paragraph if I want to. But certainly all the alignment options, or the bulleted lists, all of those commands will apply to everything between two paragraph marks. Okay, so what I'd like to do, just like last time, is to pause the video here, and then complete these exercises, okay? So you've only gotta right align the text below, you've got one where you're going to indent and then center the text below, you've got one where you're going to remove the indent from the text. You've got one way you're gonna justify the text below and change, put a space in there, and change the line spacing to three. And the last one is quite a cool one, you're gonna convert all of these shortcuts into a bulleted list, and include tabs to align the descriptions correctly. So pause the video now and then we'll go through it shortly. Okay, welcome back. So let's start at the top then. First of all, we've gotta right align the text below. Now, if you looked at the shortcuts, you will see that control R is the right align shortcut there. So well I've just realized one of these shortcuts is wrong. Control C align center, control C is copy, control E is align center, so we've fixed that, let's go back up to here then. Right align the text below, control R, boosh. Happens straight away, very, very quick shortcut. If you want to, you can go via the ribbon menu again. So alt, H, AR, whoops, alt, H AR, but it's actually, that takes quite a long time. So rather than doing that, control R is much, much quicker. Okay, next exercise, indent, and then center the text below. So if you want to indent it first, then go to the beginning of the first sentence. And again, you could use your mouse, you could use the alt shortcut, but again, there's a better shortcut to use when it comes to indentation. All you have to do is hit the tab key, okay? And there you go, you've indented the text. Now, you'll notice that's only affected one line, if you want to do it to both lines, I'd have to select both rows first, and then hit tab. Okay? And then it would move both of them across. So indentation, as I said, only applies to whatever line you've selected or whatever bit of the sentence you've selected. Now, we want to also center the text. So that shortcut is control E. Okay? And there you go. That's indented and centered the text as requested. Now in the next one we've got to remove the indent from the text below. Again, we can use the alt menu, or we can go up here and select this decrease indent option. But, a quick shortcut is shift tab, and that will remove the indents, that was shift and tab. Now, sometimes it's nice to justify the text and that means ensure it spreads across the entire page, and goes up as far as the right hand margin. So what will happen in this case, we'd expect the word, 'at' to sort of line up properly on this right hand margin, so it's somewhere beneath this paragraph mark from further up, okay? Now it won't happen for the second line, so if you have a sentence that stops halfway across the line then it will not justify all the way to the right, it's only the complete lines that will. So to justify, again, you've got a shortcut here, so that's control J. So we'll do control J first of all.

And you can see that that's taken the words all the way to that right hand margin. And the last thing we want to do is to change the line spacing to three, so that's the spacing between the different lines, okay? So I'm gonna select the lines. And I'm going to change the spacing. So there's no kind of easy shortcut for this, okay? It's this icon here, line and paragraph spacing, so I'm just gonna use the mouse 'cause it's quicker and easier to be honest, I'm gonna click on there and let's just select three from that dropdown list. There you go. You've now changed the line spacing to three. Right. Finally, last but not least, convert the following shortcuts into a bulleted list and include tabs to align the descriptions correctly. So what we're going to do then, let's select everything here. And I'm just gonna grab all of the different shortcuts. I'm going to hit the bulleted list option there. And then it's just a simple matter of going down each of the shortcuts and applying a couple of tabs. There we go. So I'm just literally using the tab key, to move them along. There we go.

(instructor typing) Fantastic. And that's it.

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