Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide

Chapter 3. Text Formatting Basics

Text Formatting Basics

Microsoft Word offers a wide range of text formatting options that you can use to make your documents more interesting and readable. Most text formatting can be broken down into two types:

• Font or character formatting applies to individual characters of text. Examples include bold, italic, underline, and font color. The actual font or typeface used to display characters is also a part of font formatting.

• Paragraph formatting applies to entire paragraphs of text. Examples are indentation, justification, line spacing, bullets, and numbering.

This chapter introduces text formatting using basic formatting techniques. Chapter 4 continues the discussion of text formatting by covering advanced formatting ...