Learning Microsoft Word 2007
Exercise 28
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Bulleted Lists
Numbered Lists
Editing Styles
Reapplying Direct Formatting
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Sort
Applying Styles
Creating Styles
Clearing Formatting
Vocabulary_________________________________________________
Bullet: a dot or symbol that marks an important line of information or designates
items in a list.
Sort: to organize items into a specified order.
Style: a collection of formatting settings that can be applied to characters or
paragraphs
Notes_____________________________________________________
I.
Bulleted Lists
a. Use bullets to mark items in a list when the order does not matter.
b. To apply the default bullet formatting, click the Bullets button in the Paragraph
group on the Home tab of the Ribbon or on the Mini toolbar.
c. The default bullet symbol is a simple black dot, indented .25” from the left
margin. The symbol is followed by a .5” left tab, and the text on subsequent
lines is indented to .5”.
d. You can select a different bullet from the Bullet Library.
e. You can create customized bullet by changing the font and/or paragraph
formatting of the bullet, or by selecting a different bullet symbol.
f. You can also select a picture to use as a bullet.
g. Once you customize a bullet, or select a different bullet, that bullet becomes the
default until you select a different one.
h. The bullet library automatically updates to display the bullets you have used
recently.
i. Word automatically carries bullet formatting forward to new paragraphs in a list.
j. To end a bulleted list, press Enter twice.
II.
Numbered Lists
a. Use numbers to mark items in a list when the order matters, such as for
directions or how to steps.
b. Word automatically renumbers a list when you add or delete items.
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c. To apply the default number formatting, click the numbering button in the
Paragraph group on the Home tab of the Ribbon.
d. The default numbering style is an Arabic numeral followed by a period.
e. You can customize the number by applying formatting, or by selecting a different
numbering style from the Numbering Library.
f. Word automatically carries numbering forward to new paragraphs in a list.
g. To end a numbered list, press Enter twice.
h. You can restart numbering in the middle of a list.
III.
Sorting
a. Word can automatically sort items into alphabetical, numerical, or chronological
order.
b. A sort can be ascending (A to Z or 0-9) or descending (Z to A or 9-0)
c. The default sort order is alphabetical ascending.
d. To sort selected paragraphs, click the Sort button in the Paragraph group on the
Home Tab of the Ribbon, and then select options in the Sort Text dialog box.
IV.
About Styles
a. Styles make it easy to apply a collection of formatting settings to characters or
paragraphs all at once.
b. Word 2007 comes with Quick Style sets, which are groups of coordinated styles
designed for formatting common document elements, such as lists, heading, and
subheadings.
c. Each Quick Style set includes the same styles, but the formatting is different.
d. In the Modern style set, the Heading 1 style uses 11 point, bold, all caps while in
the Simple style set, the Heading 1 styles uses 18 point, small caps.
e. The styles in the current Quick Style set display in the Quick Styles Gallery in the
Styles group on the Home tab of the Ribbon.
f. The default style for new text is called Normal.
V.
Applying Styles
a. You can apply a style at any time to existing text, or you can select a style before
you type new text.
b. To quickly apply a style, click it in the Quick Styles Gallery in the Styles group on
the Home tab of the Ribbon.
c. Only one row of styles displays in the Styles group at a time, but you can scroll
the gallery, or click the More button to display the entire gallery.
d. You can also select a style in the Styles task pane.
e. By default only styles used in the current document display in the task pane, but
you can select to display all available styles.
f. You can preview how a style will affect text by resting the mouse pointer on the
style in the Quick Styles gallery.
g. You can select a different style set if you want.
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VI.
Creating a Style
a. You can create a new Quick style for formatting your documents.
b. Styles can contain font and/or paragraph formatting.
c. The easiest way to create a style is to format text, select it, and then assign the
formatting a style name.
d. Style names should be short and descriptive.
e. The new style is added to the style sheet for current document and display in the
Quick Styles Gallery.
VII.
Editing a Style
a. You can modify an existing style.
b. When you modify a style that has already been applied to text in the document,
the formatted text automatically changes to the new style.
c. If you modify a style and give it a new name, it becomes a new style; the original
style remains unchanged.
VIII.
Reapplying a Direct Formatting
a. When you apply direct formatting to text in a document, Word automatically
adds information about the direct formatting to the name of the current style in
the Styles task pane.
b. This makes it easy to reapply direct formatting that you have already used to
selected text.
c. This feature is similar to the Format Painter, but instead of scrolling through the
document from the formatted text to the text you want to format, you can
select the direct formatting in the Styles task pane.
IX.
Clearing Formatting
a. You can quickly remove all formatting from selected text.
b. Clearing the formatting from text removes both direct formatting and styles.
c. After you clear the formatting, text is displayed in the default normal style for
the current document.
d. You can clear formatting using the Clear Formatting button in the Font group on
the Home Tab of the Ribbon, or in the Quick Styles gallery.
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