Text and fonts

Font formatting

In this section, I will provide ways to format the font family, font size, font colour and to format text as bold or italic. Whenever you want to format text or cells, you first need to select the text or cell that you want it to affect. The instructions will assume you have already done that.

Font formatting
Outcome Keyboard Dragon command
Change the font family
  1. Alt to move to the ribbon
  2. H to open the Home ribbon
  3. F F to go to the Font Family menu
  4. Either type the font name or ↓ to select a font
  5. Enter
  1. Font
  2. Either type the font name or say, Go down to select a font
  3. Press enter
Change the font size
  1. Alt to move to the ribbon
  2. H to open the Home ribbon
  3. F S to go to the Font Size menu
  4. Either type the font size or ↓ to select a font size
  5. Enter
  1. Font size
  2. Either type the font size or say, Go down to select a font size
  3. Press enter
Change the font colour
  1. Alt to move to the ribbon
  2. H to open the Home ribbon
  3. F C to go to the Font Colour menu
  4. ↓ to select a font colour
  5. Enter
 You should be able to use Dragon commands for this but when I tested it, they didn't work. I would recommend using the keyboard method.
Make text bold Ctrl + B Bold
Make text italic Ctrl + I Italic

Cell formatting

Cell formatting
Outcome Keyboard Dragon command
Wrap text
  1. Alt to move to the ribbon
  2. H to open the Home ribbon
  3. W to wrap text
  1. Home to open the Home ribbon
  2. Wrap text
Horizontal alignment
  1. Alt to move to the ribbon
  2. H to open the Home ribbon
  3. A L to align left
    A C to align centre
    A R to align right
 Align left to align left
Align centre to align centre
Align right to align right
Vertical alignment
  1. Alt to move to the ribbon
  2. H to open the Home ribbon
  3. A T to align top
    A M to align middle
    A B to align bottom
 Top align to align top
Middle align to align middle
Bottom align to align bottom
Format painter This isn't possible using the Format Painter but there is a workaround:
  1. Go to the cell or range with the desired formatting
  2. Ctrl + C
  3. Go to the cell or range where you want to copy that formatting
  4. Alt to move to the ribbon
  5. H to open the Home ribbon
  6. V to open the Paste menu
  7. R to paste the formatting only
  1. Go to cell [ref] (select the cell with the desired formatting)
  2. Format painter
  3. Go to cell [ref] (select the cell where you want to copy that formatting
  4. Press enter
Adjust column width
  1. Alt to move to the ribbon
  2. H to open the Home ribbon
  3. O to open the Format menu
  4. W to open the Column Width dialogue box
  5. Type in a number
  6. Enter
  1. Format
  2. Column width
  3. Dictate a number
  4. OK
Adjust row height
  1. Alt to move to the ribbon
  2. H to open the Home ribbon
  3. O to open the Format menu
  4. H to open the Row Height dialogue box
  5. Type in a number
  6. Enter
  1. Format
  2. Row height
  3. Dictate a number
  4. OK
Autofit row or column
  1. Alt to move to the ribbon
  2. H to open the Home ribbon
  3. O to open the Format menu
  4. A to autofit row height or I to autofit column width
  1. Format
  2. Autofit row height or Autofit column width

Video Demonstration

The following video will show you how to modify fonts and format text.

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