See your formatting before it happens
Don’t you hate it when you change the color or size of the text on your document only to realize you made the wrong choice so you keep changing the format like trial and error until you find the perfect one? With Live Preview, you can see how the change will look before applying it to your document.
Live Preview is one of the time saving features in Office 2007. Just point your mouse to a formatting option on the gallery across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007’s ribbon to automatically see what that selection will look like before choosing what is applied to your document. For example, point to a document theme in the Themes gallery on the Page Layout tab in Word or Excel, or on the Design tab in PowerPoint to see how applicable theme colors, fonts, and effects will look before it is applied on your active document.
To use Live Preview in formatting text in Word, Excel or PowerPoint 2007:
- Highlight the text you want to change.
- Hover your mouse cursor over the format option of your choice for the font, paragraph and styles to preview the text formatting. You’ll see the text change in the document. The change is not applied unless you click on the format option you have selected.
One may also preview picture formatting in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. To do this:
- Click to select a picture or graphic on your document.
- On the Format tab, under Picture Tools, hover your mouse over the gallery in the Picture Styles group.
To preview additional choices:
- Click Picture Border, and move the pointer over the picture borders in the list.
- Click Picture Effects, point to an effects category, and then move the pointer over the effects in the list.
- To apply the previewed formatting, click the selected style in the list.
- To cancel live previewing without applying any changes, press ESC.
Note: Previewing and applying styles to pictures do not modify your original image files. You can preview, apply, change, and remove picture styles as often as you want.
The Live Preview feature works for many other formatting choices in Office Excel 2007, Office Outlook 2007, Office PowerPoint 2007, and Office Word 2007, including tables, charts, shapes, and SmartArt graphics.
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