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Monday, February 06, 2006

Changing Text Color

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Changing Text Color
Make it colorful!

If you use Microsoft Word or Works, you can change the color of the text in your document. Just promise me one thing: You won't make your document look like a rainbow! Sometimes when novice computer users learn to change the text color, they feel compelled to use different colors throughout their document. It's confusing for the reader and a waste of your color printer cartridge. Use color to emphasize important parts of your document only.

For those of you who aren't sure what a font is, the font in the paragraph above is called Verdana. The font in this paragraph is called Times New Roman. It's simply the appearance of the type in your document.

To change the color of your text (font), first highlight the text you want to change. To highlight the text, LEFT click at the beginning of the text, hold down the left mouse button and drag across all the text you want to change. When all the text is highlighted, release the left mouse button. Now LEFT click Format on the Menu Bar at the top of your screen. LEFT click Font. The Font dialog box will open. Look for a box labeled Font color about halfway down this dialog box. LEFT click the dropdown arrow beside this box and you will see a selection of colors. LEFT click the color you'd like to use. LEFT click OK. You've done it!

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Barb Walker
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