 So at some point in time in your college career. Guess what you get to make an MLA format paper? I Know it's annoying. It's terrible. Why do I have to do all this formatting? Why can't I just use wingdings? Because wingdings is tough to read as an instructor. I would fail you immediately from the class I just flat out how dare you do such a thing in my classroom, but we need to go ahead and jazz up our paper or Jazz up. We have to de-jazz the paper and the reason is is because we want to make it uniform To all the other papers. We don't want it to be unique in a special snowflake One of the things that we can do is we can change the font now. This is actually Something that you don't have to do nowadays, but depending on the instructor. I'm not you know saying set in stone Most instructors prefer that you use times new Roman as your font Now one of the things I'm going to do is I'm going to actually use my handy-dandy keyboard For a second, and I'm going to hold down the control key now holding the control key doesn't give me much But I'm going to then click on sort of the there. We are going to click on the a button right there And as soon as I do look what happened to my text everything got highlighted, which is really nice because You know, I don't I wouldn't want to have to click and scroll through this When I was a grad student writing my thesis guess what I had a 75 page paper Yeah, I don't want to I don't want to do that And so again now I want to change this two times new Roman now I can click on the drop-down menu for this But I already know what I'm going to be looking for so I can actually click on Calibri And you see that it highlights it and well when we know that when we highlight things we can Overwrite what's there and if I start to type times new Roman just getting the Tim t.i.m I already see it available now. I haven't had any changes happen yet, but as soon as I hit enter You see that I now have some serifs appearing on my text The next thing I have to do is I have to go ahead and I have to change sort of my font size right now It's size 11. Well, luckily this is one of those beautiful things MLA format dictates that it needs to be a size 12 font so all I have to do is click on that increase font size button and What do you know that went ahead and made that taken care of which is pretty nice as you can see We can keep on going with this one of the things we have to do is we have to get rid of all those line Spacings in between my paragraphs and I have to indent my paragraphs So how do I tackle that well if you remember from our block style business letter? We can come over to this little tiny box here and we can click on it And that gives me a dialog box that lets me control a lot of the Inner workings of Microsoft Word Once the such thing is that spacing we see right there That's actually because I'm saying put eight points points a little pixel thing ease There and so if I drop that down to zero I've removed that spacing and if I do line spacing well guess what? What do we need for MLA formatting? That's right kids double spacing double spacing So instead of multiple I do double again I also need to indent the first line in every paragraph guess what I see indentation all in one spot It's beautiful. I click on this little special section. I don't really recommend tackling these left and right I recommend coming over here to special clicking there and saying first line You can see now. All right We do that now as you can see it freaked out and it did it for you know K a chow over here, which that's not useful to me So we do have to click off it We do have to highlight that portion right there and we can come back None and it does the exact same thing it removes the indentation And so we can scroll through here and yeah, yeah, we're starting to get something