Formatting Text

Take a look at the Basic Text area of the Home tab to see the different tools for formatting text in notes. Do these tools look familiar? If you have any experience with Word, you recognize the Font menu, Font Size menu, and font style buttons: Bold, Italic, Underline, and Strikethrough. The formatting tools and their shortcut keys work the same way in OneNote and Word.

OneNote gives you these opportunities to format text:

Menu/Button

Shortcut key

Description

Font

 

Choose a font (a typeface)

Font Size

 

Shrink or enlarge the text

Bold

Ctrl+B

Boldface the text

Italic

Ctrl+I

Italicize the text

Underline

Ctrl+U

Underline the text

Strikethrough

Ctrl+-

Draw a line through the text

Subscript/Superscript

Ctrl+=; Ctrl+Shift+=

Lower or raise the text from the ...

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