SECTION 3
Lesson 3.1: Using Styles

   

 

 

1.

Open Microsoft Office Word 2003.

Open the Interviewing document from the sample files folder.

 

 

2.

Scroll to the first page. Move your mouse over the middle of the page until your cursor turns to an. (It may help to zoom out.) Align center pointer

 

 

 

3.

Once your cursor turns to an Align center pointer, double-click that spot.

Type Better Interviewing Exercise.

 

 

4.

Select the text we have just typed and press Ctrl + U to underline it.

 

 

 

5.

Click the  icon on the formatting toolbar to open the styles task pane.

Right-click the Underline style and click Modify Style.

 

 

 

6.

In the Modify dialog box, apply these properties:

-          Style Name: Underline

-          Style Type: Paragraph

-          Algerian font

-          Size 22

-          Bold

-          Indigo Colour

-          Underline Style: Words Only (Format – Font)

-          Border: Box Setting, Single Solid Line, Indigo colour, 1 ½ point (Format – Border)

 

Click OK once these settings have been applied.

 

 

 

 

7.

 In the styles task pane, click New Style.

 

 

8.

In the New Style window, fill out the following information:

-          Style Name: Character Style

-          Style Type: Character

 

 

 

9.

Do not fill out the Formatting information. Instead, click the Formatting button and click Border.

In the border window, click the Shading tab.

In the Patterns section, choose 90% for the pattern and Light Yellow for the colour.

Click OK.

 

 

10.

Select all the blanks in page two of the document. (Remember that you can hold the Ctrl key to select multiple items.)

 

 

 

11.

Once all the blanks are selected, click Character Style in the styles task pane to apply that style.

 

 

12.

Right-click on the Style Underline we created earlier and click Delete.

Click Yes to the warning.

 

 

13.

Scroll up to the first page of our document and see what happened to the title page.

 

 

14.

Save your document if you wish and then close Microsoft Office Word 2003.