Character casing office word 2007

Microsoft office word 2007 tutorials: Character casing

How to use character casing

Character casing is a command used to control the appearance of characters within a document. Characters can either be in CAPITAL or lower case also called small letters. There are five different types of casing characters in office word 2007. These are:-

Sentence case: - In sentence case the first character in each word beginning a sentence is Capitalized.
lower case:- lower case lowers all characters whether they are the starting characters in the first word or noun in a sentence.
UPPER case: - like the lower case it CAPITALIZES every character.
Capitalize each word: - Each Word In Your Sentence or Document Is Capitalized.
tOGGLE eACH case: - This cOMMAND iNTERCHANGE  bETWEEN cAPITAL aND sMALL lETTERS iN a gIVEN wORD.

To use character casing in your Microsoft office Word 2007 do the following

step 1
Highlight the text you want to change its casing and go to Home menu,

step 2
In the font group click on change case drop down arrow located on the right of the change case icon

step 3
Choose the appropriate casing style you want to apply in your document 

using bullets and numbering techniques

Bullets and numbering

How to apply bullets and numbering into you word 2007 document

 
Bullets are characters used to separate listed items in a document. Bullets separates one listed item from one another by giving emphasis each point on the list. Numbers also are used to separate listed items only that with numbers the listed items are in sequence like a,b,c: 1,2,3 etc.

Now that we understand what Bullets and Numbering are we continue to see how we can use bullets and numbering to arrange list items in our Microsoft office  word 2007.

In Microsoft office 2007 we have 3 types of listing that we can use in our document, that is, Bulleted listing, Numbered listing, and Multilevel listing.

To get started highlight the points you want numbered or bulleted. To highlight is to select, see the example below. The highlighted or selected text appear like the one below. To start highlighting a text left click, hold and drag the mouse over the text you want highlighted. see how to select text and objects in office 2007

This is a highlighted text

Step 2
Go to Home menu and under Paragraph group select bullets for bulleted list, numbering for numbered list or Multilevel list for multilevel listing

Home Menu

Bulleted listing

Bulleted list

Numbered list

Numbered list

Multilevel Listing

Multilevel

All of the 3 button of arranging lists can be expanded by clicking on the drop down arrow on the right of the button, that is the bullet button, numbering button and multilevel button.

Expanded bullet button

applying borders and shadding office word 2007

Applying Borders and Shading to your Word 2007 document part 1

Using Borders in Microsoft office Word 2007

A border is a line showing the boundary of an item or object within a document. A good examples are text borders, table borders, picture borders etc.

Using borders and shading can enhance the appearance of your document by giving your document a unique outlook. 

To begin applying borders in your Microsoft word 2007 document, follow the instruction below

step 1

Click on Page Layout Menu if its not already clicked and go to Page background group

step 2 

In the page background group choose page borders

step 3

In the  borders and shading dialog box that appears there are three tabs;-

The first tab is borders, the second is page borders, and the last one is shading.

The first tab called borders is used to set text borders

The second tab page borders sets and creates a page border

While shading can be used to apply a background color to a document.