Text Effects & Text Styles

by: Esmeraldo T. Guimbarda Jr.

Text Effects

In Text effects, you can change the look of your texts by changing its fill, outline, lines, or adding effects such as shadows, glows, or reflections. You can change the text effects by highlighting the text, then, click the Font option. Under the Font Tab in the Font Option, you can change the font face, font style, font size, font color, underline style, underline color, and effects of the highlighted text. A Preview box is also there to show you a preview of the effects that you had added to the text. More Text Effects are available in the Text Effects… button below the Font Option window.

Text Styles

A style is a set of formatting characteristics that you can apply to your texts in your document to quickly change their look. When you apply a style, you apply a whole group of formats in one simple task. You can find this option in the Styles Group under the Home Tab. Click the dropdown to all styles in one window. For more styles, click on the Change Styles button.

Activity

1. Open Microsoft Word. Click on Start ►All Programs ► Microsoft Office► Microsoft Word or double-click on the Microsoft Word shortcut on the desktop. This will open a blank document in Microsoft Word.

2. Before you start typing your poem, it’s best to save your work now so you’ll just hit the CTRL + S keys once you’re done. To save the document, click the Save Button.

3. Upon clicking the Save Button, the Save As Window will appear. Choose a File Destination and a File Name for your document then click Save. You can simply click CTRL + S to save your changes the next time you wish to save the document.

Set your filename as songs.docx

4. Type in your favorite song and make it presentable by adding some text effects on the title and text style for the lyrics of the song.

5. Save your File. After editing your document, save your finished file by clicking CTRL + S.