Now we've covered the absolute basics, let's take a look at the ribbon in more detail. I'm gonna start off with the Home tab, and we're gonna start off specifically with the Font menu. Now, the Font menu allows us to control the appearance of text within the document. We'd normally apply consistent formatting throughout the document, but it's really important you understand that actually you can apply different formatting to any individual character, word, sentence, or paragraph within it. So if I just type Hello in here, oops, Hello. And I want to, say, change the format of just the H, I can do that quite easily. I'm gonna use the mouse just for this. I'm gonna change the font. Let's go to Algerian. I'm gonna change the font size to, whoops, 36. There we go. I'm gonna make it orange as well, okay. So you can make your documents look really flamboyant if you want to. I wouldn't recommend it necessarily in a work document but that's the kind of thing that you can do. And the font, so you've got that individual character control or you can do it to obviously to whole sentences or whole, or paragraphs as well. So what we've got here is a couple of exercises just to kind of get you to kind of get used to navigating around that menu and finding some of the different commands, okay? So just to kind of, I'll just go through them with you very, very quickly. We've got the font. We've got the font size. We can increase and decrease the font size with these two here. We've got one here that allows you to change the case. This removes all formatting. And then we've got bold, italicize, underline, strikethrough, subscript, superscript. And you've also got highlight and font color as well. This one here, I never really use this, this is the text effects one, if you want them to glow or anything crazy like that. It's the kind of thing you might do in a PowerPoint document potentially, but I wouldn't necessarily do that in Word, but you can if you want to do it. That's where you'll find it. Now we have got some, there's also some keyboard shortcuts you can use for some of these commands as well. So what I want you to do, when you're working through these exercises is think about the most efficient way of doing it. Should you use the mouse? Should you use the keyboard? Or should you be using a quick keyboard shortcut as well? Okay, so I'm gonna give you a minute, pause the video now, have a go at these exercises, and then I'll go through them with you shortly. Okay, welcome back. So let's have a look at these little practice exercises then. So the first one is asking us to change the font and size of the following text to Times New Roman, size 15. So there's a couple of ways you could do this. You could do it just using, you're selecting the text, using your mouse. And you can go over to here, select Times New Roman. Now I've used it recently, but if you haven't used a certain font recently, if you type in the first couple of letters, then it will appear at the top and then you can just press Enter, okay? And you'll notice that it will have changed size there and you can also change the font size as well. Now if the dropdown list, as in this case, does not contain the size you want, just again, just type the size you want into the box at the top there and it will do it for you. So that's just using the mouse. There's a couple other ways we could have done that. By selecting all of this stuff, of course, with the mouse in the first place, I create this mini-toolbar. So I could have just have easily gone into here and gone Times New Roman.

Well, I have to type 15 here. There's no way around it, there you go. So that would've worked as well. What's the other way you could have done it? Well, you could have gone through the Alt menu. So if I go Alt, H, FF, then I can type in Times New Roman, and I could also go Alt, H, FS, 15.

Okay, so out of those three, I would say probably the mini-toolbar's the quickest, if you've got that enabled. Otherwise, probably just using the mouse, to be honest. Now with this next one, we've got to bold, italicize, and underline the text. So again, you can use the mouse for this, but I think there's a way faster way of doing it. You can just simply go, hold the Control key, Control + B, I for italic, U for underline. So you can see that it selected those three options up here on the ribbon, okay? And it just does it really, really quickly. That's much quicker than going Alt, H, B, Alt, H, I, Alt, H, U, et cetera. That would take too long. The moues would be reasonably quick as well. And then finally, we've got to make the following text uppercase and red. Okay, now I definitely recommend using the mouse for this, okay? If you go via the Alt menu, Alt, H, and I want to make it change the case, I have to press seven and then I get the list. Then I have to go U for uppercase. So that's Alt, H, 7, U. Okay, that's kind of four different tasks to do one thing, which takes quite a long time. It's a lot quicker to use the mouse. Similarly, if I want to change the font color, again, Alt, H, FC for font color. Now I've gotta use the arrow keys to navigate to the color I want, which, again, takes ages and ages and ages. It'd be much quicker if I just use the mouse or the mini-toolbar, hit the down arrow and selected the color I wanted to. Another interesting thing is if you want the color that's actually in the box already and you can just click on the icon straight away, it will select that color. But mine's not red, so it won't work. I have to go down to here. Okay, there we go.