Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

Format Menu

This menu contains all of Word’s formatting commands, which let you work with text controls, alignment, and spacing.

Font

Opens the Font window, where you can make all kinds of marvelous tweaks to the type choices of the selected (or about-to-be-typed) text. Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-D.

Paragraph

Opens the Paragraph window, where you can change paragraph-level formatting options (such as line spacing and indents). Keyboard shortcut: Option-⌘-M.

Document

Opens the Document window, where you can change document-level formatting options (such as margins and how sections begin).

Bullets and Numbering

Opens the “Bullets and Numbering” window, where you can control how bulleted and numbered lists look (see Formatting).

Borders and Shading

Opens the “Borders and Shading” window, where you can add and change borders and shaded areas in your Word document (see Applying tabs to paragraphs and styles).

Columns

Opens the Columns window, where you can set the number of columns used in the current document (see Working with Columns). You can also control the column width and spacing in this window.

Tabs

Opens the Tabs window, where you can add, edit, and remove tab stops in the currently open Word document (see Tabs).

Drop Cap

Lets you add a drop cap to the currently open Word document (see the box on Formatting). You can choose from one of three styles in the window that pops up.

Text Direction

Lets you choose from three text direction orientations: left to right, top to bottom, or bottom to top. For use ...