How to Use Font Effects in Microsoft Word 2007

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Tracy Prentiss, of Montague Massachusetts, and I’m going to show you how to use font effects in Microsoft Word 2007. Font effects can be used to add punch to a document. Instead of just having plain old text you can make it much more exciting. The first step in using font effects is to select or highlight the text that you wish to add an effect to. Once the text is selected, go to the home tab on your ribbon, and within the font group, click on the dialogue box launcher, which is the tiny button in the lower right hand corner of the group. When the font dialogue box comes up, you'll notice there is a section called effects, and the preview area that shows you your selected text. To try out an effect, click its check box. The shadow effect will put a drop shadow in gray behind your text. You can use the outline effect to make the middle of the letters white, and just leave a black outline. The emboss effect, makes the text look as though it's embossed into the paper when you print it. Use engrave, to make it look like your using engraved stationary. Some of the other effects have more specialized use. Strikethrough will print a line through the selected text. Double strikethrough, a double line. Superscript will take the selected characters and raise them above the line of text, making them tiny. Subscript also makes them tiny and drops them to the base of the line. Small caps, will leave the upper case letters in your selection alone, and will take each lowercase letter, displaying it as an upper case letter, but keeping it shorter than the ones you typed with the shift key held down. All caps will make the entire selected text appear to be in all upper case letters. And hidden, you need to watch out for. Hidden won't do anything normally, but when you print, the text will not print. You'll just get white space in it's place. Helpful if you want to hide something, but can certainly be confusing if you haven't known that you did it. I think I will use the outline effect for the title of my document. With outline selected, I click ok, and there is my outlined text. You can apply as many font effects as you would like in a document, by selecting the text, and going back to the dialogue box launcher, and selecting another effect. And that is how to add font effects to a document to Word 2007."