2007 Microsoft® Office System Step by Step, Second Edition
by Joyce Cox, Curtis D. Frye, M. Dow Lambert III, Steve Lambert, John Pierce, Joan Lambert
Manually Changing the Look of Characters
When you type text in a document, it is displayed in a particular font. Each font consists of 256 alphabetic characters, numbers, and symbols that share a common design. By default the font used for text in a new Word document is Calibri, but you can change the font at any time. The available fonts vary from one computer to another, depending on the programs installed. Common fonts include Arial, Verdana, and Times New Roman.
You can vary the look of a font by changing the following attributes:
Almost every font comes in a range of font sizes, which are measured in points from the top of letters that have parts that stick up (ascenders), such as h, to the bottom of letters that have parts that drop down (descenders), ...
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