Help with fonts and forms

[Natebond008]

Hi hopefully someone can help me with this. I am currently studying for the bar right now and as I am taking my class, I have to take most of my notes in electronic form currently in word 2008. Kaplan has provided us with a bar notes outline form, but we have to fill in many of the details.



As I am writing my notes, I found it helpful to change the color of the font for all the items that I wrote into the form to distinguish from the outline itself. In order to do this i have to press the change color button for every line that i want to add notes to. It is very frustrating to do this extra step every time.

Does anyone know of a way (maybe by writing a macro or something) to make it so all new text added will be a certain color, font type, whatever? This way I wont have to manually click the change color button for every line of notes i take.

Thanks in advance

Nate

[Kimberly]

On a Pc, you can VERY QUICKLY make a keyboard shortcut that will change your font color to whatever color you last used.

1. Go to the Customize tab of Options.
2. Near the bottom of the dialog box, click the button to customize keyboard shortcuts.
3. Under Categories, choose Home tab.
4. Under Commands, scroll to FontColorPicker.
5. Click inside the 'Press new shortcut key' text box and type a keyboard shortcut.
6. Then click the Assign button.

Every time you press that key combo, you will revert to the last-used color.

If you choose a key combo that it is currently in use, it will be overwritten by this new task/key combo.

[mike.smith]

Hello,

also, what you can do is this. It is not as elegant as solution above, but works for me.

Click on Developer tab and find "Record macro button".
Name it and assign a shortcut to it.
I advise you to use some combination of CTRL + number (start at CTRL + 3, these are not usually taken, test first),
Start recording new macro.
Hit CTRL + D and Font format window will appear.
Pick the color you want and hit enter.
Then stop recording macro.
From now on, whenever you highlight a text and hit your CTRL + Number combination, it will be changed to that certain color.
Repeat the procedure for other colors if you wish.

Mike