Jan's Working with Words

Create and Link Text Boxes

• Create a new folder from inside the Save As dialog
• Create a text box
• Select a text box
• Size a text box using the ribbon
• Copy a text box
• Link text boxes
• Break a link
• Why text can vanish in a text box
• Add a custom tab group to the ribbon
• How to tell if a text box is linked

Format Text Boxes

• Resize text box by dragging
• Change the shape of a text box
• Adjust shape with adjustment handle
• Format a text box and its text

Doc as Template

• Save under another name
• Show text boundaries
• Change Zoom
• Remove temporary text from text boxes
• Practice folding a tri-fold brochure

Brochure Cover

• Change text direction in a text box
• Align text inside text box
• Add a bottom border to paragraph
• Add a picture on top of a text box
• Use a custom color for text

Brochure Back

• Add a text box over a text box
• Format text inside a text box
• Rotate and format the text box

Brochure Flap - Add Text

• Switch between two open documents with:
  • mouse on ribbon
  • key combo for ribbon commands
  • key combo to rotate through docs
  • key combo to rotate through open windows
  • Task View (Win10)
• View multiple documents at once:
  • Word's Arrange All
  • key combos with Windows key
• Copy and paste between documents

Character Spacing

• Scale text
• Expand and condense text
• Raise and lower text
• Kern text

Brochure Flap - Format Text

• Modify a paragraph style, including character spacing
• Create a new paragraph style
• Create a character style
• Create a block quote style
• Insert an image in a text box and apply a style
• Remove borders from text boxes

Brochure Inside

• Replace temporary text with text from another document
• Update styles to match selection
• Create a Body Text style from formatted selection
• Apply a custom style
• Add images to linked text boxes