While you can use paragraph and font formatting to make the various parts of you document appear as you wish, Word defines a range of default Styles that are available for your use. Using Styles is highly encouraged because:
You can also define new Styles in addition to the ones that Word provides by default, but this is not covered in this exercise.
Style Sets are sets of predefined styles that you can use to change the overall style of your document.
To change the Style Set:
Your lab instructor will show you how to do this in lab session if there is time.
Very often in academic writing, you will be requested to submit documents that are doubled spaced (i.e., have a space between lines that is the same as a blank line). This is to allow enough room for someone reviewing your work to write comments. Other situations may require other line spacings. Default line spacing is governed by the Style Set; however, it is easy to globally change the line spacing for a document.
To change the document's default line spacing:
You can quickly add bullets or numbers to existing lines of text, or Word can automatically create lists as you type.
Available list formats include:
By default, if you start a paragraph with an asterisk (*) or the number '1' followed by a period (1.), Word recognizes that you are trying to start a bulleted or numbered list. (If you don't want your text turned into a list, you can click the AutoCorrect Options button that appears.)
Word lets you insert into your document various kinds of automatic text.
Open the document henri_matisse.docx. Note that when you open a document that you downloaded from an untrusted source, Microsoft Word will open it in “Protected” (i.e., read-only) mode.
The document that you open should have the following text1) in it:
Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954): Fauves Artist
Henri Matisse was born in December of 1869 in Le Cateau, France. He began painting during a convalescence from an operation, and in 1891 moved to Paris to study art. Matisse became an accomplished painter, sculptor and graphic designer, and one of the most influential artists of the 1900s.
He was the leader of the Fauves, a group of artists whose style emphasized intense color and vigorous brushstrokes. He believed the arrangement of colors was as important as a painting's subject matter to communicate meaning. He avoided detail, instead using bright color and strong lines to create a sense of movement. In 1905, works by Matisse and other Fauve painters were exhibited together. The bold forms and bright colors of these paintings shocked the Paris art world.
Matisse's work reflects a number of influences: the decorative quality of Near Eastern art, the stylized forms of the masks and sculpture of African, the bright colors of the French impressionists, and the simplified forms of French artist Paul Cezanne and the cubists.
Format the document above to look like the document shown here.
To accomplish this: