Writing in Colour

You can change your writing to different colours in Word97. If you have a colour printer, your writing will print out in different colours. If you have a black and white printer, the colours will appear as different shades of grey. Changing the text colour is also considered character formatting because you can change the colour of single characters as well as words or lines of text.

To change the colour of your text, you follow the steps below.

• Select the text you want to change.
• Click on the Font Colour button and select the colour you want to change the text to.
  

• Open the file The Lady of Shalott. It will be in the Word97 Training folder on the C drive (hard disk).
• Select the title The Lady of Shalott
• Click on the down arrow next to the Font Colour button. A list of colours will appear.
  

• Click on the colour Violet (top line, last on right).
• Click somewhere else in the document to deselect the title. The writing will now be violet.
• Look at the Font Colour button. The bar of colour under the A is now violet.
• Select the second line, Alfred Lord Tennyson.
• Click on the down arrow next to the Font Colour button. The list of colours will appear.
• Click on the colour Dark Green (top line, fifth across).
• Click somewhere else in the document to deselect the line. The writing will now be dark green.
• Look at the Font Colour button. The bar of colour under the A is now dark green.
• Select the line Part I.
• Click on the down arrow next to the Font Colour button. The list of colours will appear.
• Click on the colour Dark Blue (top line, second last on right).
• Click somewhere else in the document to deselect the line. The writing will now be dark blue.
• Look at the Font Colour button. The bar of colour under the A is now dark blue.
• Select the heading Part II.
• Click the Font Colour button. This will make the selected text dark blue, the colour indicated on the button.
• Deselect the heading (click anywhere in the document)
• Select the heading Part III and make it dark blue.
• Select the heading Part IV and make it dark blue.