In this lecture, we're going to start working with the content in our notes or our pages, we're going to focus on merging containers, highlighting our notes, whether they're type text or objects, using Bullets and Numbering within our pages, and then also extracting text from pictures and file printouts and various formatting options within our text. So let's start with merging containers. As you'll recall from one of our previous lectures, you can have multiple containers within your notes pages. For instance, in this page at that two containers, aisle, you can have multiple containers, you can merge the containers if you wish to have just one container. Merging containers is really easy. All you need to do is go to the container you wish to merge into another container and click on it.

So once I have it highlighted, I'm going to go to the gripper icon. It's that little box with the arrow on it. And once I do that, I'm going to get the cross arrows from here all I need to do With my left mouse button, click and drag it to where I want it within the other container. So if I wanted it in the middle here, I would drag it here, and then release the button and it adds the text to that container. So that's how easy it is to merge containers. Just drag the one container into the other container, placed it where you want within that container and release the button.

Now I want to show you how to highlight your notes. Remember, there are multiple types of notes you can take whether they're typed notes, handwritten notes, you can also insert pictures and printed pages into your notes, and I'll show you how to highlight the two different types. So we're going to start with the basic one of just text. In order to highlight text, all you need to do is to start by selecting the text you wish to highlight. Once you have it selected, you'll go to the Home tab, basic text group and then you've got your highlight icon. From here you can click on the down arrow and choose the color you want for the high lighting.

So if we wanted this to be a darker highlight, you could select a darker highlight and add it, you want to change it, highlight it again and choose a different color. Remember, select your text First, go to the Home tab basic text group, click on the down arrow for the highlighting icon and choose the color highlight you wish. If you wish to remove your highlighting, select the text where you want the highlighting removed. Come up to the highlight icon and choose no color. And that will remove the highlighting. Let's move on to highlighting objects.

Remember, text is typed in whereas objects are inserted into your pages. So let's go to one of our pages that has an object. So here we've got a page that we had printed into our notes. And what I'm going to do on here is show you how to use the highlight feature. Because we're highlighting an object we're not going to go to the basic text group on the Home tab. Instead, we're going to go to the draw tab, the tools group, and from here you've got your options of exactly how you want the highlighting to appear.

You can click on the down arrow to choose a different type of pen, the size of the highlighting and so forth. So if we wanted this to be green, click here, you'll notice the icon changes to match the color that I'm highlighting with. And at this point, all I need to do is click with the left button and drag across what I want highlighted. Remember, this is different than highlighting text because when we did the highlighting for text, you have to select the text first and then choose your eye lighting. Here you choose your highlighting and then select what you want to highlight. I want to change it I'll come back up to the down arrow.

Select a different type. See my icon changed. Now it looks like a circle to denote that it's more of a pen instead of a highlighter. could come and underline my information. Come back up and do one more. We'll do a green small line.

We'll put a better picture here. There we go. You'll see my highlighter again change to mirror what I'm highlighting with, I'm doing a small highlighter a small underline. So it gives me a small dot for my mouse, and it's the color that I'm using. If you wish to remove highlighting from an object, you need to erase it. So we'll make sure we're on the draw tab, the tools group and we'll come over to eraser.

Now when you click on the down arrow for eraser, you have multiple options available to you. Smaller eraser, it gives you a small eraser so you can raise small areas. Medium eraser gives you a medium eraser so you can read erase medium areas, and large does exactly what it says also gives you a larger eraser to erase larger areas. Now the stroke eraser is different with this Stroke eraser does is when you click on an area, it erases the stroke. And a stroke is a single swipe made with the highlighter. So for instance, when I highlighted under information, I did it in one stroke.

So if I use the stroke eraser and clicked on it, it would erase it. So let's go ahead and do that. We're going to choose stroke eraser, you can see my eraser. I come down here and click on it, it erases it. Let's come back up and we'll choose the small eraser. Now you'll notice my boxes a little bit smaller, so it allows me to get a smaller eraser.

And what I'm doing now is I'm going over the area that I want to erase. So I can choose specifically how much I want erased off of there are two ways to my box is bigger, so I can erase more quickly. So those are the different options that are available for erasing highlighting from objects. Now remember, since we're on the draw tab, if we want to get back to the point where we can type, we need to come up to the tools group and click on type. Now we've got our cursor back, so we can type with it. If we left it with the eraser, it doesn't allow us to do anything.

The erasers can be used for more than just erasing your highlighting. If you had done drawings or you had written on your notes, you could erase those as well using it. So we can go over to our written notes. We'll click on a small eraser. And we can erase portions of it. It's your eraser for whether you're writing, drawing, coloring, or highlighting within objects.

Now let's move on to Bullets and Numbering. So I'm just going to go to a blank page that I had set up and I'm going to show you how to do the bullets and numbering. Now remember, I've got my mouse set as an eraser. So I'm going to click tight so I get my cursor back. For Bullets and Numbering, we're going to go to the Home tab. In the basic text group, and here we've got our bullets and our numbering.

So I'm going to click where I want to start. We're going to do bullets first. So I'm going to click on the down arrow next to bullets. So I can choose which type of bullet I want. I want to get fancy. And then you just start typing.

Press Enter to go to the second bulleted item. Press Enter again to continue on, and so forth. Once you're done, press Enter twice, and it will end the list for you. Same thing with numbering will come up and we'll click on the down arrow for numbering, choose the type of numbering we want. And you begin typing once you have it, press enter and continue on once you're done enter twice will end the list for you. Now also, when you're working with your list, you can have subs under it.

So if I press enter here and hit the Tab key, it will allow me to create my sub items and so forth. So With my numbering. Remember working with bullets and numbering, it's not just one level you can have, you can have multiple levels with it. While we're focusing on the basic text group, let's go over a couple of the other items on there as well. So I'm going to go ahead and go to a type page. From the basic text, you can also do your font.

So if I wanted to change my font, I'm going to highlight what I want to change. Click on the down arrow for font and choose my new font. Change the size from here as well. If I wanted to apply this to the last paragraph, all I need to do is highlight it. Come up to the clipboard group on the Home tab and choose paint format or you can see my cursor changed a little paintbrush, and I'm going to come down and highlight the last paragraph to format the font and the font size on it as well. So the two paragraphs are the same.

From the basic test. I can end And I can decrease my end and I can change my font color. I can change to subscript superscript strikethrough, underline, italic, bold. Change my spacing on here as well and my alignment. So if I want to center this paragraph, I'll come up to my paragraph alignment and choose center. You can see it concentric From here, I can delete the whole paragraph from here.

If I want to clear the formatting changes I made, I can go ahead and select what I want to clear the formatting from and come up to my eraser icon. And that's going to clear all the formatting. And now I'm back to what it was. So those are some of the options that are available for you under the basic test. Remember, that's where you go to do your highlighting on text, keep bullets in numbering, your basic text formatting. If you want to do highlighting and objects, remember to go to the draw tab and come to your tools group.

And this way you can select the type of pen you want to use the color, the thickness and so forth. erasing highlighting that an object use your eraser in the tools group. If you want to remove highlighting from text, all you need to do is go to the home group, select where you want to remove it, go to the highlighting icon and choose no color. In the next part of this lecture, I'm going to show you how to extract text from pictures and file printouts.