Word 2016 Skills Approach - Ch 2: Formatting Text and Paragraphs: Challenge Yourself 1.3 (2025)

A Skills Approach: Word 2016
Chapter 2: Formatting Text and Paragraphs
Challenge Yourself 2.3
In this project, you will be formatting a safety report from the Spring Hills Community. You will be updating
the font, font size, and line spacing for the entire document. You will remove unnecessary line breaks and apply
styles. You will modify paragraphs by changing alignment, applying shading, and adjusting the space that
appears before and after the paragraphs. You will then copy that formatting and paste it to other text using the
Format Painter tool. You will apply character formatting and change the case of text. Finally, you will convert
text to both a bulleted list and a numbered list.
Skills needed to complete this project:
• Changing Fonts
• Changing Font Sizes
• Changing Line Spacing
• Revealing Formatting marks
• Using Styles
• Changing Paragraph Alignment
• Adding Borders and Shading to Paragraphs
• Adjusting Spacing Before and After Paragraphs
• Using Format Painter
• Changing Text Case
• Using Bold, Italic, and Underline
• Creating Bulleted Lists
• Applying Indents
• Creating Numbered Lists
Step 1
Download
start file
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Open the start file WD2016-ChallengeYourself-2-3 document. The file will be renamed automatically
to include your name. Change the project file name if directed to do so by your instructor, and save it.
If the document opens in Protected View, click the Enable Editing button in the Message Bar at the
top of the document so you can modify it.
Change font, font size, line spacing, and paragraph spacing on entire document.
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Select all the text in the document.
Change the font to Calibri and the size to 12 pt.
Change the line spacing to 1.15 spacing.
Display the formatting marks for the document and delete all of the extra blank lines between paragraphs
in the document. When you are finished, hide the formatting marks.
Customize the title of the document.
a.
b.
c.
Apply the Document Heading style to the first line of text in the document.
Change the font size to 18 pt.
Center the title.
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A Skills Approach: Word 2016
Chapter 2: Formatting Text and Paragraphs
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Customize the first section heading in the document (tips for staying safe).
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Apply the Document Section style to the text tips for staying safe.
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c.
Apply the Gold, Accent 4, Lighter 60% shading to the section heading. It is the eighth option in
the third row under Theme Colors.
Change the spacing before the paragraph to 12 pt. and the spacing after to 6 pt.
Use the Format Painter to apply the formatting of the first section heading to the other two section
headings in the document (basic tips for staying safe and what electronics are being targeted).
Use the Change Case tool to change all the document section headings to UPPERCASE.
Apply character formatting.
a.
b.
Select the text basic safety strategy in the first paragraph.
Bold and italicize the text.
10. Convert the text in the Basic Tips For Staying Safe section to a bulleted list.
a.
Select all the lines in this section.
b.
Apply the open circle bullet style.
11. Decrease the indent of the bulleted list by one level.
12. Convert the text in the What Electronics Are Being Targeted section to a numbered list.
a.
Select all the five targeted electronic items in this section (from Tablet Computers to
Laptop Computers).
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Step 2
Apply the 1), 2), 3) number format to the text.
13. Decrease the indent of the numbered list by one level.
14. Save and close the document.
Upload &
Save
Step 3
Grade my
Project
15. Upload and save your project file.
16. Submit project for grading.
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