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Chapter 4 Common Offi Application Features fice 137
Hands-On Example 4.3.5 (continued)
5. Applying what you have learned, select the entire fi rst paragraph (the one in fi
Heading1
style).
6. Enter
20
in the
Font Size
text box (Home
Font Font
Size). This sets the point size to 20 points.
7. Select all lines of text in the list under
Local
Attractions, from
Walters Museum
to
Edgar Allen Poe
House.
8. Applying what you have learned, convert the lines of text to an automatic bulleted list.
9. Select the lines of text in the second list, from
Divided Voices
to
Passages through
Fire.
10. Applying what you have learned, convert the lines of text to an automatic bulleted list.
11. Save the fi le. fi
Format Painter
A useful tool for formatting text is the format painter. The format
painter copies the formatting applied to selected text and then applies that r
formatting to a second text selection. To use the format painter, select the text
with the formatting to copy. Then, click
Home Clipboard Format Painter
in
r
the ribbon. Finally, click the text to which the formatting is to be applied.
Word
2.2.2
Hands-On Example 4.3.6
Format Painter
There are times when formatting must be applied many times. For example, suppose a document
has important words in red and this must be changed to purple throughout. After reformatting the first fi
instance, the format painter can be used to apply the new formatting to the other important words.
1. Launch Microsoft Word, and open the file fi LastNameBaltimore1 from the
Chap04
folder on
your fl ash drive, if it is not already open. fl
2. Applying what you have learned, select the fi rst paragraph (the one in fi
Heading1
style).
3. Applying what you have learned, change the size of the text to 12 points.
4. With the text selected, click the
Font
drop-down arrow in the
Font
group on the
Home
tab of
the ribbon, and click
Garamond
in the drop-down list. If Garamond is not available, select a
different typeface.
5. With the text selected, click the
Format Painter
button in the
Clipboard
group on the
Home
tab of the ribbon. The cursor changes to a paintbrush.
6. Select the line of text that states
Visit
Baltimore. The text assumes all of the formatting applied
to the fi rst paragraph, including the style setting. fi
7. Save the fi le. fi
F t
Painter
Excel
2.2.3