User Guide

TOPIC E

Applying Text Formatting

Your home page is starting to take shape. Now that you know how to add text to a page, let’s

look at how you can make your text more legible and distinctive by considering various text

formatting options.

Text on pages is unavoidable, but that doesn’t mean it has to be dull-looking or difficult to

read. It’s up to you to make text as legible and attractive as possible. Good text formatting will

ensure that your content gets the attention it deserves.

Apply Text Formatting

Procedure

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Text formatting in FrontPage is as straightforward as it is in other Office XP

applications, with both character and paragraph formatting. Use character for-

matting, such as changing fonts, styles, and effects, for a small amount of

text—usually a word or two. Use paragraph formatting, such as changing

alignments, indentations, and spacing, when you want to affect an entire

paragraph. To apply text formatting:

You can also use the FormatPainter tool on the Standard toolbar to

copy formatting from one selection and paste it on another.

Select the text to be formatted. (To apply paragraph formatting, the entire

paragraph doesn’t need to be selected. The insertion point just needs to be

in the paragraph to be formatted.)

Either click one of the formatting buttons on the Formatting toolbar or,

for more character formatting options,

• Use the Font dialog box (choose Format→Font).

For more paragraph formatting options:

• Use the Paragraph dialog box (choose Format→Paragraph).

From time to time, you may see some peculiar text formatting. To

see where formatting is on a page, you don’t have to switch to the

HTML pane. You can choose View→Reveal Tags.

Styles FrontPage supplies some traditional HTML styles listed in the Styles drop-

down list on the Formatting toolbar. (See Figure 1-8.) These styles can be

thought of as text formatting templates because they can contain many differ-

ent formatting options—both character and paragraph—within one style name.

By default, the Normal style is used until you apply a different style from the

list. Headings (1 being the largest, 6 being the smallest) and lists (especially

bulleted and numbered) are the most commonly used.

LESSON 1

FrontPage 2002 – Level 1

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