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Selecting Text and Applying Effects

Module by: Dana Althani. E-mail the author

Summary: How to select text within a document coupled with how to apply commonly used effects such as bold, font types, etc. onto the selected text.

Selecting Text

If you want to select a text you have to:-

  • Move insertion point to the word that you want to select
  • left click in the mouse and select the wanted text
Figure 1
Figure 1 (graphics1.jpg)

Applying Effects

If you want to apply effect in your text:-

  • From the font box which is placed in home tab you can apply effects in your text such as, font, size, bold, underlined, italic …
  • You have to select the text, and then press the icon that you desire.

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Figure 2 (Picture 0.jpg)

The explanations for these numbers are:-

  1. Bold: to make your type apper like this.
  2. Italic: to make your type face curve or (bend) to the right like this.
  3. Underline: to make a line below your text Like this.
  4. Strikethrough: to cross the text or make a line at the middle of the text.
  5. Highlight color: to highlight a text.
  6. Font color: to change the font color.
  7. Font size: to change the text size.
  8. Font: to change the font hand writing or style.

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Definition of a lens

Lenses

A lens is a custom view of the content in the repository. You can think of it as a fancy kind of list that will let you see content through the eyes of organizations and people you trust.

What is in a lens?

Lens makers point to materials (modules and collections), creating a guide that includes their own comments and descriptive tags about the content.

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Any individual member, a community, or a respected organization.

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