- [Instructor] In this video, I want to go beyond
the basic text formatting options,
because there are some really useful options
to format your text if you dig a little deeper.
Starting in this document,
I want to format some text we already have.
I'm just going to select this first line.
Then I want to go to the home ribbon up at the top.
And in the home ribbon,
I want you to see that there are different sections.
There's the clipboard section, the font section,
the paragraph section, and styles.
And Windows users will
actually see these labels for those sections.
But Mac users will see the ribbon divided
into those sections, but they will not see the labels.
Now, when we're formatting text,
generally we're focusing on the font section
in the home ribbon.
And this is where you can apply basic text formatting,
like changing the font, the size, the color,
or the bold or italics settings.
And there are some other options you can explore here.
For example, looking at the line of text
that I have selected, we can see that the first letter
of each word is capitalized.
Without retyping that text,
I can change it using some formatting options.
I'll go to this change case menu,
and I'll choose sentence case.
And now only the first letter
of the sentence is capitalized.
Or I could go back to that same menu
and I could change every letter to be uppercase.
You can see how that works.
And for now, I'm going to hit the undo button
in the quick access toolbar to undo those changes.
So there are a bunch of really useful options here,
but there are even more text formatting options
if you know how to find them.
Now for Windows users only, there's a button
in the bottom right of some of these sections.
And if you click that button here in the font section,
that will open a panel with more text formatting options.
For now, I'm just going to click
the cancel button to close that.
Because there is another way
to get to those additional formatting options,
which does work on both Mac and Windows.
All you need to do is select something.
I already have this selected.
Once you have some text selected,
you can right click on it, and you can choose font.
And that takes us back to that same panel.
That works on Mac and Windows.
So here we have some of the same text formatting options
that we saw in the font section of the home ribbon,
and some more options.
I want to set a text effect.
I'm going to choose small caps.
So if I select that, and then click okay.
See how my lowercase letters
are now just smaller capital letters?
This is a nice text format for this line.
Okay, so let me go back to that font panel.
Now you might want to explore some of these options.
You could apply a strikethrough to your text.
You can see a preview of it here.
There's also an option here for a double strikethrough,
and you can go over to the advanced tab, and you can change
the scale and spacing between your letters.
And there's even an option here for text effects.
So you could apply outlines to your text,
or you can change the color of your text.
So you could make a gradient fill
or you could change the transparency.
But before you do too much with these advanced text effects,
I would encourage you to continue with this course
until we cover styles.
Styles can apply preset effects like this,
and they're just easier to work with.
If styles don't give you what you need,
you can always come back here to your advanced text effects.
For now, I'm just going to click okay, and cancel this.
So you can stick with the basic text formatting
in the home ribbon most of the time,
but those additional formatting options
are there when you need them.