Laptops All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies- P31: Okay, I’ll admit it: I’ve got a strange biography. I’ve been a writer all my life. My first semi-pro job was sports editor of my high school newspaper. (Go Commodores!) After college I was a political reporter for daily newspapers in Ohio and New York (I covered four national nominating conventions and two Presidential campaigns) and a correspondent for The Associated Press. And then, in 1983, I gave in to my inner geek and became the first Executive Editor of PC Magazine, back in the days when most people asked, “What is a PC?”. | 274 Formatting a Document Figure 1-5 A set of Quick Styles is a shortcut added to Microsoft Word 2007. Applying a theme Themes offer a way to refine or customize the particular Quick Styles set for a document. You can change styles fonts type sizes and colors. When you apply a new font theme the system changes the fonts for all headings and the body of text for the current document. Working with a predefined style To use a predefined style apply it to the document you re working on. 1. In Microsoft Word 2007 click the Home tab and locate the Styles group. 2. Click Change Styles. 3. Choose Fonts. 4. Choose the predefined font theme you want. Creating a custom font theme A custom font theme is created when you define its elements and store it on your machine under a name or description. 1. In Microsoft Word 2007 click the Page Layout tab and locate the Themes group. 2. Click Theme Fonts Create New Theme Fonts. 3. Select the fonts and sizes you want to use in the Heading Font and Body Font lists. Formatting a Document 275 4. In the Name box type a name for the new font theme. 5. Click Save. Creating formatted lists You can set up Word to automatically create bulleted and numbered lists as you type or you can add bullets or numbers to existing lines of text. Adding a bulleted or numbered list You haven t reached this point in this book without escaping from the clutches of a bulleted or numbered list. Typographers use the term bullets to refer to round square or other-shaped symbols that present a list of information with emphasis. A special form is the numbered list which as you no doubt guessed means the list uses numbers instead of bullets the numbered list is useful for presenting instructions in a particular sequence or to rank items by importance. At the start of a sentence type an asterisk to start a bulleted list. To start a numbered list type 1 at the start of a sentence. Then press the spacebar or the Tab key. When you press the Enter key the next line begins
