okay so today is the day I'm applying
for a new job and I'm working on my
cover letter I've already written a lot
of the letter but I need to make some
changes let's start by inserting some
new text it's really simple all you need
to do is move your mouse to the location
you want to add the text and left-click
it the insertion point appears now I can
just type the text I need anytime you
make a mistake you can just use the
backspace key or the Delete key to
correct your mistake there may be times
when you want to move the text from one
location in the document to another
there are several ways you can do this
one way is to copy text and paste it in
another place in the document for
example let's copy with telephone ink
from the first sentence and place it in
the last paragraph of the letter to do
this you first need to select the text
placing a certain point next to the text
you wish to select and left-click your
mouse and drag it over the text you wish
to select then release the mouse button
see how the text is highlighted that
means you've selected the text very good
okay this is worth mentioning this
little box that appears this is the
hover toolbar and whenever I select text
the hover toolbar comes up and it gives
me other options but we're going to
highlight that a little later so let's
keep going once the Texas selected click
the copy button on the Home tab now just
place your insertion point where you
want the text and click the paste button
and tada your text appears this is great
when you're copying and pasting large
amounts of text you can also move text
by dragging and dropping let's say you
want to move this sentence thank you for
your consideration to the end of the
letter first select the sentence then
left-click your mouse and drag it to the
location you wish your sentence to
appear you'll notice a pointer arrow
appears as you are dragging release the
mouse button and you've moved your
sentence not only can you move sentences
you can move words paragraphs or any
text on the page sometime
you'll find that you can't copy and
paste or drag and drop an item exactly
where you want it to appear we just
happened in this case so get as close as
you can and then use your Enter key to
move the text to its desired location
now everything is in place and I want to
make some changes to my font since I
want to change the text of my entire
document I should select all of the text
I can do this by using my mouse or in
the editing group choose select and then
select all this selects the text in my
entire document now I'm ready to look at
my font choices let's go to the font
drop-down box on the Home tab and move
the cursor over the various fonts there
are a lot of different font choices and
live preview features let me see how my
document will look in these various
fonts before I select one hmm this one
looks good now to my font size 10 11 12
I think the standard is somewhere
between 10 and 12 so I'll choose 11 now
my font color hot pink well this is a
cover letter so maybe I shouldn't choose
hot pink and I should just stick to
black