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4 Change the Look of Text

In this chapter, you will learn how to

✔ Quickly format text.

✔ Change a document’s theme.

✔ Manually change the look of characters.

✔ Manually change the look of paragraphs.

✔ Create and modify lists.

The appearance of your documents helps to convey their message. Microsoft Word 2010

can help you develop professional-looking documents whose appearance is appropriate

to their contents. You can easily format the characters and paragraphs so that key points

stand out and your arguments are easy to grasp. You can also change the look of major

elements within a document by applying predefined sets of formatting called Quick Styles,

and you can change the look of selected text by applying predefined combinations called

text effects. In addition, you can change the fonts, colors, and effects throughout a docu-

ment with one click by applying one of the built-in themes.

Tip A font consists of alphabetic characters, numbers, and symbols that share a common

design.

In this chapter, you’ll first experiment with built-in Quick Styles and text effects, and then

you’ll change the theme applied to a document. You’ll change the look of individual words,

and then you’ll change the indentation, alignment, and spacing of individual paragraphs.

You’ll also add borders and shading to make paragraphs stand out. Finally, you’ll create

and format both bulleted and numbered lists.

Practice Files Before you can complete the exercises in this chapter, you need to copy

the book’s practice files to your computer. The practice files you’ll use to complete the

exercises in this chapter are in the Chapter04 practice file folder. A complete list of

practice files is provided in “Using the Practice Files” at the beginning of this book.

Contents

4 Change the Look of Text 99

Quickly Formatting Text.................................................. 100

Changing a Document’s Theme........................................... 106

Manually Changing the Look of Characters................................. 111

Character Formatting and Case Considerations......................... 119

Manually Changing the Look of Paragraphs................................. 119

Finding and Replacing Formatting.................................... 130

Creating and Modifying Lists............................................. 130

Formatting Text as You Type......................................... 136

Key Points.............................................................. 137