Apply and Modify Character Formats

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Formatting TextProject 3 Objectives

• Apply and Modify Character Formats
• Change the Font, Size, and Color of Text
• Apply Character Effects and Spacing
• Copy Formats with Format Painter
• Highlight Text
• Insert Symbols
• Display Formatting Marks
• Insert Nonbreaking Spaces and Hyphens

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Key Terms for Formatting Text
formatting marks
character effects
em dash
import
character formats
character spacing
hard return
font
en dash
font size
Format Painter
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Key Terms for Formatting Text
spacing
san serif font
serif font
heading
nonbreaking space
nonbreaking hyphen
highlight
kerning
position
scale
WYSIWYG
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Font Usage

• Serif Fonts
• (with shoulders)
• Times New Roman
• Courier New
• Baskerville
• Georgia

• Sans Serif Fonts
• (without shoulders)
• Arial
• Comic Sans
• Tahoma
• Swiss 721

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The Format Painter
Format to Copy
Text to copy format to
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Nonbreaking Space
March
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A nonbreaking space in Word works like a chain
between two words. They cannot be separated.
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