Practical Learning: Selecting a Font

1- The Fonts window should still be displaying.To see an example of a Serif font, find and double the Times New Roman icon (if there is more than one, then double-click the first) 2- Observe the ends of each character of the font and notice that they are fancy.Click Done to close the window 3- To see another example of a Serif font, find and double-click the Courier New icon (if there is more than one, then double-click the first)
4- Click Done to close the window

5- To see an example of a Sans Serif font, find and double-click the Verdana icon (if there is more than one, then double-click the first)

6- Observe the ends of each character of the font and notice that they are straight.Click Done to close the window

7- To see another example of a Sans Serif font, find and double-click the Haettenschweiler icon: If you don't have Haettenschweiler, then find and double-click the Arial icon (if there is more than one, then double-click the first)
8- Click Done to close the window

9- To see an example of a graphics font, find and double-click the Wingdings icon (if there is more than one, then double-click the first)

10- Click Done to close the window

11- To see another example of a graphics font, find and double-click the Webdings icon (if there is more than one, then double-click the first)

12-Click Done to close the window

13-Close the Fonts window and return to WordPad

14-Press Ctrl + A to select the whole text

15-On the Formatting toolbar, click the arrow of the Font combo box (the most left combo box) and select Times New Roman (if there is more than one, then select the first one)

16-Click somewhere in the selected text to loose the selection

17- Select the first line of text (Common Sense)

18- On the Formatting toolbar, click the arrow of the Font combo box (the most left combo box) and select Garamond

19-Double-click Introduction to select it 20- On the main menu, click Format -> Font...
21- In the Font combo box, scroll down and select Verdana

22- Click OK

23-Select How it Started
24-Right-click the selected text and click Font...

25- In the Font combo box, scroll down again and select Verdana and click OK