Using the Format Painter to Format Text

Open the file: You Are Invited to a Party

Format the text according to the instructions below. Remember, you must always select the text before formatting it.

1. Press Ctrl-A to select all the text. Click on the Center button in the Formatting Toolbar.
2. Bold the title: You Are Invited to a Party. Also, make it red, change the font to Rockwell, make it 18 point, and put a border around it.
3. Bold the word: Date: Also, underline it and make it red
4. Be sure the word Date: is selected and then double-click on the Format Painter icon in the Standard Toolbar. (It is the icon that looks like a paint brush).
5. Notice that your cursor changes into paint brush.
6. Now, you are going to “paint” over the other headings: Time, Place What to Bring, and Schedule. Just drag the paint brush over those words – carefully. As you drag over each work, the word takes on the formatting of the original word (Date).
7. Now select the words: December 31, 2002. Bold it and make it blue.
8. Once again, turn on your Format Painter by double clicking on it. Paint (drage over) all the rest of the text which is under the headings Time, Place, What to Bring, and Schedule. Hint: when you have 3 lines of text (such as is under Place and What to Bring), you can drag over all 3 lines at the same time.
9. Select the 3 lines under the heading: What to bring and Number these lines
10. Select the 4 lines under the heading: Schedule. Place a bullet in these lines.
11. Print a copy of your formatted file.