Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
All the Office applications have similar controls for text formatting. After
you select some text, you can use the commands in the Font group on
the Home tab to change the font, size, and color of text, as well as apply
attributes like bold, italics, and underlining. Figure 7.13 shows the Font
group in Word and points out the buttons that are common to all the
applications. To find out what the other buttons are in this group, point
at each one to view the ScreenTip.
Figure.7 13
Use the Font group's commands to format text.
Understanding Themes and Color Palettes
Each application enables users to apply themes, which are groups of format-
ting presets. A
theme
contains definitions of three key formatting aspects:
fonts, colors, and effects (applied to graphic objects). In some applications,
a theme may contain additional elements; for example, in PowerPoint, a
theme may contain a background image that is applied to each slide. You
can override a theme's settings in one or more of those areas by applying a
color theme, font theme, or effect theme (which are like themes but more
limited, affecting only that one aspect of the formatting).
theme
A named set of formatting presets, gov-
erning font, color, and object effect choices.
Each document, workbook, or presentation has a set of 12 color place-
holders: 10 colors for standard use, and 2 colors that define the colors
for followed and unfollowed hyperlinks. The choice of theme (or color
theme) dictates what those colors will be.
Commands for selecting colors (such as the Font Color button on the
Home tab) open a
color palette
from which you can select a color, like
the one shown in Figure 7.14.
color palette
A grid of color choices that opens
when you click a button for a feature that is
color-related.
