Microsoft Word 2008: The Formatting Palette (Mac)

The Formatting Palette

The Formatting Palette allows you to format your document in areas of font, styles, alignment and spelling, bullets and numbering, borders and shadowing, document margins, and document theme. This document describes each of the main sections of this palette.

• Font
• Styles
• Alignment and Spacing
• Bullets and Numbering
• Borders and Shading
• Document Margins
• Document Theme

Font

The Font toolbar allows you to edit aspects of the text in your document, as well as add customizations.

Name	Image	Description
Font style pull-down menu		Selects text font
Font size pull-down menu		Selects text size from pull-down menu
Font size slider		Selects text size using slider
Bold		Applies boldface to text
Italic		Applies italics to text
Underline		Applies underline to text
Strikethrough		Applies strikethrough
Font color pull-down menu		Selects text color
Highlight		Adds highlighting to text
Superscript		Creates superscript text
Subscript		Creates subscript text
Small caps		Applies small caps
All caps		Applies all caps

Styles

The Style toolbar allows you to add preformatted styles to your text, create your own style, as well as clear any formatting.

Name	Image	Description
Style display		Allows you to select text with similar formatting, and displays the style of the selected text
New style		Allows you to create your own style and save it
Select all		Selects all text with similar formatting to the text already selected
Style List		Allows you to choose from pre-made styles including Heading 1, Heading 2, Bulleted list, and No spacing. The Clear Formatting option removes any style that has been applied to the selected text. Each option on the Style List has pull-down menu with the following options: select all, modify style, delete, update to match selection.
Style List pull-down menu		From this menu you can choose between Available Styles and All Styles. This will affect what styles are present on the Style List.

Alignment and Spacing

The Alignment and Spacing toolbar allows you to designate the horizontal and vertical alignment, text orientation, paragraph spacing, and indentation.

Name	Image	Description
Horizontal alignment		Sets the horizontal alignment for the text at left, center, right, or justified
Vertical alignment		Sets the vertical alignment for the text at top, center, or bottom
Text orientation		Sets the text direction to portrait, or landscape
Paragraph spacing pull-down menus		Sets the spacing before and after paragraphs
Indentation text boxes		Sets left, right, and first line paragraph indentations

Bullets and Numbering

The Bullets and Numbering toolbar allows you to add bullets or numbering, adjust indents, customize bullets and numbering, and designate what number or letter a list starts on.

Name	Image	Description
Bullet type		Chooses between bullets or numbering
Indent adjustment		Allows you to increase or decrease the depth of indentation
Style pull-down menu		Allows you to select different types of bullets or numbering EXAMPLE: Roman numerals.
Start pull-down menu		Designates the number or letter that the list will start from

Borders and Shading

The Borders and Shading toolbar allows you to edit a border in terms of type, style, color, size, shading, and shading pattern.

Name	Image	Description
Border type		Selects type of border:
Border style		Selects border style
Border color		Select border color
Border weight		Applies border size
Shading pattern pull-down menu		Selects the degree of shading applied
Pattern color pull-down menu		Selects the color of the pattern
Fill color pull-down menu		Selects the color of the shading

Document Margins

The Document Margins toolbar allows you to designate the left, right, top, bottom, header, and footer margins.

Name	Image	Description
Left margin text box		Sets the left margin
Right margin text box		Sets the right margin
Top margin text box		Sets the top margin
Bottom margin text box		Sets the bottom margin
Header margin text box		Sets the header margin
Footer margin text box		Sets the footer margin

Document Theme

The Document Theme toolbar allows you to choose a preset theme for your document, or create and save your own theme.

Name	Image	Description
Theme list		Allows you to select a preformatted theme
Color scheme pull-down menu		Allows you to select a color scheme
Font scheme pull-down menu		Allows you to select a font scheme
Browse button		Opens the browse dialog box
Save theme button		Saves your custom settings as a new theme

 

 

 

 

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