Computer Skills/Basic/Formatting

Simple formatting includes fonts, font size, font style, font color, and text alignment.

Objectives and Skills
Objectives and skills for simple formatting include:
 * Apply basic formatting: font; font size; font style; color; align text

Multimedia

 * 1) YouTube: Word 2010: Text Formatting

Activities
These activities may be completed using any word processing application (Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, Google Write, Apple Pages, etc.):
 * 1) Start your word processing application.  It should automatically open with a new, blank document.
 * 2) Enter two paragraphs of text in your new document.  You can write about the formatting features you see (font, font size, font style; color, text alignment, etc.) and where they are located.
 * 3) Save your document.
 * 4) Add a heading at the top of your document labeled 'Simple Formatting'.
 * 5) Change the font for the heading to a sans-serif font (Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, Sans, etc.).
 * 6) Change the font for the body paragraphs to a serif font (Cambria, Times, Times New Roman, Serif, etc.).
 * 7) Change the font size for the heading to 18 point.
 * 8) Change the font size for the body paragraphs to 12 point.
 * 9) Change the heading font style to bold and italic.
 * 10) Change the heading font color to blue.
 * 11) Change the heading text alignment to centered.
 * 12) Change the body paragraphs text alignment to justified.
 * 13) Save your document.