You can always go to More Colors if you wanted to choose from millions of colors. You can choose from the theme colors and variations of those colors. Other options include some text effects, highlighting, as if you were running a marker across the text, or here it is, Font Color. Oh, maybe not, so we'll click it again to turn it off. Same thing for Italics, click the Italic button to turn it on, click it again to turn it off. That's maybe a little bit too bold, so we click the Bold button again to turn it off. While it's still selected, we can make other adjustments to the font attributes that we see, like bolding it. Now you can type right over it 60 and press Return. We click inside the field, with everything selected, you may have to click and drag across the number to select it. You can either click the drop-down or just hit Increase Font Size to bump it up to the next preset, which is 72. There is no preset for that, let's try 48. I'm thinking somewhere around 60 points should be good. Calibri, 10.5, let's click the drop-down. With that selected, you can see the current settings. We don't need to get the hard return at the end. Let's go to Tech Connect, click and drag across and just get to the T. You can also make changes to part of your document by selecting the content you wanna make changes to, like our title, it should stand out. Okay, so it's looking very different than when we started already, and we haven't done much yet. Let's go to 10.5, that might be right in the middle, right what we're looking for, and click in the background to deselect.
Very difficult to read, let's bump it back up. So, if we wanted to drop it down further, you can see we're down to nine points now. You could also use these two buttons to bump the font size up or down using those same increments we see on the drop-down list.
You can see that's much smaller, you can squeeze more onto the page. So, if you wanted to, you could try going down to 10. Notice the size in points is set to 11 for this document. You could also change the size of the overall document. So, as you scroll down, you can see, it did affect the entire document. It's very subtle, but it's a cleaner looking font face. So, let's just go to the Regular Calibri, give it a click, and you'll see in the background, all of a sudden, your text changes. There's the Regular version there, Italic, Bold, et cetera. The ones with arrows have variations of that font, like a Light version, Light Italics. There's Calibri down there, and if we wanted to select it, you'll notice, some of these have arrows next to them, some don't. You can see, there's a lot to choose from here. And then you'll see all the fonts down below, and your list could look different than mine, depending on your installation. You'll also see recent fonts if you happen to have used any. Century SchoolBook for headings and Calibri for the body. You can see, there are a couple that we can choose from here. Documents can have a theme made up of fonts, font faces, font attributes, sizes, even color schemes. So, let's go to that font group and click the drop-down arrow next to the name of the font currently being used, and you'll see some other options. Now any changes we make will affect everything on our page. You'll notice everything is highlighted or selected. Faster way is to use the keyboard shortcut Command+A as in All. Yes, you could click and drag from the beginning to the end to select everything in a document. As we change the overall font being used throughout our document, the first step is to select everything.
Those are known as serif characteristics, and if you wanna remove those, you would use sans-serif fonts. You can see little ticks on the end of each character. That's the font that's being used, the font face, and it has a certain style to it. First of all, you'll see Times New R, as in Roman. It's a one-page document so far, very plain text, and if you're wondering what is the text font and size being used, just click anywhere in the document and with the Home tab selected, check out the Font group here on the ribbon. You can close up whatever you're working on if you have the Exercise Files and open up Tech Connect0301. You can see, I'm working with a different looking document here. That's going to be the focus in this chapter, beginning with the text font, size, and attributes. Once you've added text to your document, you may wanna go back and change its appearance to make it more visually interesting and pleasing to the eye.