Formatting at the Word and Paragraph Level.
NOTICE: This assignment uses an article from Smashing Magazine by Dan Mayer. It is his property and we are only using this article as part of an educational document. We are using this document under the educational fair use clause. This document should not be used for any other purpose or by anyone other than students as an academic exercise.
The original document is located here gone.
Instructions
- Save a copy of this document to your work area.
- Before we destroy the document, give it a quick read through.
- After the line, By Dan Mayer, insert a line that says Formatted by yourname
- In the title:
- Move "Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces" to a new line.
- Center both lines of the title.
- Change the font to 21 point Arial font.
- Make the By and Formatted by lines 14 point Times New Roman font.
- Remove the space after the paragraph for these two lines.
- Italicize the Date and the Note: lines.
- Remove the space between the Date and the Note: lines.
- Make the first paragraph fully justified.
- Make the second paragraph right justified.
- Replace all occurrences of the word idea with the word thought.
- Format all of the headings inside of the document.
- There a several numbered lines in the document, these should be marked as headers.
- Find 1. Dress For the Occasion on the first page.
- Select the entire line.
- Click on the Heading 1 box in the Styles group of the Home tab.
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- Repeat this for, (use the format painter)
- 2. Know Your Families: Grouping Fonts
- 3. Don't Be a Wimp: The Principle of Decisive Contrast
- 4. A Little Can Go a Long Way
- 5. Rule Number Five Is "There Are No Rules"
- In Conclusion
- Under Point 2, there are a number of sub headings. Mark these with Heading 2 style.
- 1. Geometric Sans
- 2. Humanist Sans
- 3. Old Style
- 4. Transitional and Modern
- Slab Serifs
- Return to the top of the document.
- Place a box around the third paragraph.
- Color the fourth paragraph a shade of blue.
- Change the fifth paragraph so the line spacing is 2.5.
- Move to the paragraph that starts "The clothing analogy"
- Make this paragraph start with an indent.
- Make the next paragraph so that it has a 1" hanging indent.
- In the paragraph that begins with "The following list is not..."
- Underline the word following.
- Make the word list bold.
- Strikethrough is not.
- Make ment a subscript.
- Make as a a superscript.
- Make comprehensive small caps.
- Make classification orange fill.
- Make of each blue outline with a reflection.
- Make and every glow green.
- Make category a gradient, from center.
- Ok, got that out of your system, never do it again!
- Go to the paragraph after the Geometric picture and apply some truly horrid script font.
- Apply some font like Franklin Gothic Heavy to the paragraph after that.
- Again, got that out of your system, never do it again!
- Finally, do something truly horrid and unique to the next two paragraphs after Humanist
- When you have finished, save a copy of this document and submit it according to the instructions in the assignment.