Google Docs Fundamentals

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Google Docs Fundamentals Web Fonts To the right of the search box is a font category menu. Click on the show all fonts pull down menu. The fonts are categorized into display, handwriting, monospace, serif and sans serif. Adding Fonts We can easily add fonts to use in our documents. To add a font, find a font and click it once. The font will be listed on the right under the ‘My Fonts’ section. We can add several fonts at once. Click on the handwriting fonts category. These are fonts that resemble hand written characters. To the right of the category pull down menu is a sort option menu. This menu will sort the fonts by popularity, alphabetically, by date added and by the font most trending at the time. Click on date added. These fonts are the ones most currently made available by Google. This list is likely to change regularly. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Adding too many fonts could make it difficult to find the fonts you need. Instead of adding lots of fonts all at once, select the fonts you want to use now and add more as you need them. To get rid of fonts from the my fonts section, click on the ‘x’ next to font name. Don’t worry about accidentally deleting a font you’ve used in a document, Google will remember and use it when you open the document. A benefit of using web fonts in Google is that they are available to anyone that opens the document with a Google account. They don’t have to install the font. Google will load the font automatically. 7 Digital Maestro
Google Docs Fundamentals Formatting Text Google Docs automatically use Arial 11 point font. Fonts are measured in a system called points. When formatting text, we usually change the font using the font selector menu. Once we’ve selected a font we usually change its point size from the font size pull down menu. We can stylize a font by selecting bold or italics. Bold and italics are really other fonts in the world of typography. Bold and italics are a way to change the appearance of text. Bold text is often used to add emphasis to a word or a line of text. Italic fonts are used for titles or worlds that can stand on their own. Both of these are used to add emphasis. Citations are another common use of bold or italics. An underline option is available in most word processors like Google Docs. Underline text is used less often today. Underlining was used with typewriters to add emphasis or in citations. It’s used less often today because underlined words are often seen as links to web site or resources. Don’t use underline to add emphasis to words unless used in a citation or you are told to do so. With the advent of computer technology we have other ways to add emphasis to words. We can change the color of text. Next to the underline button we have a color palette selector. Like bold or italics, its important to use color in text to add emphasis sparingly. Don’t use color in all your text unless its applied a high contrast background. Black text on a white background is the easiest to read because there is a lot of contrast. Colorful text is often used in flyers, magazine covers and with very large text. It is also used sparingly. Text Styles Each time you start a new document, Google Docs uses the Arial font at 11 points. This is called the default font. It can be tedious to change this font each time you create a new document. Google, like most modern word processors, uses styles to format bodies of text. To the left of the font selector pull down menu we see a style menu that reads normal text. This normal text is set to Arial 11 point. Let’s change this style to another font and size. Use the font selector to choose Georgia and change the size to 12 points. Click on the arrow next to normal text. On the right side of the word normal text is an arrow pointing to the right. Move your mouse over to this arrow and click on it. We have two options. We can apply the normal text style, in which case the font and size will be changed back to Arial 11 point. We can update normal text style to match our current font choice. This means that the normal text will change from Arial 11 point to Georgia 12 point. Click on the option to update normal text to match. Click on the normal text pull down menu. The Normal Text is now set to Georgia 12 point. Type Hello World or anything you like. Digital Maestro 8
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