Office 2013 For Dummies

Chapter 6

Formatting Text

In This Chapter

Changing fonts

Changing the font size

Using text styles

Coloring text

Justifying text

Creating lists

Clearing formatting

After you type text into a document, edit it, and check it for spelling and grammatical errors, you’re ready to make it look pretty — a process known as formatting text. A properly formatted document can make your text easy to read, while a poorly formatted document can make even the best writing difficult or confusing to read.

The Home tab groups Word’s formatting tools into three categories:

Font: Defines the font, font size, color, highlighting, and style (bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, ...