

To make it even more compact I’ll click again and select “Remove Space Before Paragraph”. To remove the space after the paragraphs and make the text more compressed mark the text, click on the “Line and Paragraph spacing” button and click “Remove Space After Paragraph”. I’ll remove the one at the very top by just pressing delete on my keyboard. Click the Show/Hide paragraph button on the “HOME” tab to see all paragraph ending marks. This looks fine, however, I want the video information at the top to be more compressed. There, now more space is added to the entire document. To apply this change to the entire document, I’ll right-click the “Normal” style used for the text and select “Update Normal to Match Selection”. I’ll go to the “HOME” tab and click the Line and Paragraph Spacing” button and change the line spacing to 1.5.

I’ll mark the first paragraph by double-clicking in the margin next to the paragraph. For example, I want to add some more space between the lines of the text. I can continue to tweak the formatting until it’s exactly the way I want it. To change the colors used in the style, click “Colors”, and see which color combination you prefer. This is a good start but I want to make some changes. You get a live preview of what your document will look like using different style sets. To apply a style set to your document, click the “DESIGN” tab and select a style from the style set gallery.Ī style set is a combination of fonts, colors, and layouts. To make it easier to change formatting, Word has a number of built-in style sets that you can use. I’ll close down the “Navigation Pane”, and now I want to work on the look and feel of the document. To go to the beginning of the document click the little arrow which takes you back to the first page. To change the order of a paragraph just grab it by holding down the left mouse button and then drag and drop it, and the whole paragraph is moved. You can easily navigate your document by just marking a heading to go to that paragraph. Here you can see all the paragraphs in your document if you have applied styles. To quickly re-arrange paragraphs in your document, click the “VIEW” tab and then mark the “Navigation Pane”.
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To go back to the original layout right-click and select Expand/Collapse – “Expand all headings” and the full document will show. Now you can focus your attention better by only expanding a single paragraph. If you want to collapse all paragraphs right-click any heading and select Expand/Collapse – “Collapse all headings”. Another, quicker way to collapse the paragraph is to click the little grey triangle to the left of the heading. This option will only be available if you have applied a heading style. To collapse a paragraph place your cursor on the heading, right-click and select Expand/Collapse – Collapse Heading. In Word 2013 I can get a good overview of the contents by collapsing and expanding the paragraphs. I’ll mark the informative text at the top and select to apply the “Subtle Emphasis” style.īy applying heading styles it is much easier to navigate and work with the document. Now I’ll just write the text for each section and finally, I’ll add information about the video at the top. When I’ve written all the headings I’ll mark them and apply the “Heading 1” style. The outline will also work as the headings for each paragraph. Next, I’ll write the outline for the script. I’m not thrilled about the formatting applied, but I’m going to leave it for now and change the look and feel of the entire document when I’ve finished writing all the text. To apply a style to the title I’ll mark the title and click on the “Title” style. To make it easier to format and navigate the document I’m going to apply styles. I’ll open up a blank document and start with the title, “Keep your contacts up to date”. I’m going to write a new script for one of our videos.
