Chapter 10
Character Formatting
In This Chapter
Understanding text formatting
Choosing a font
Applying basic text formats
Changing text size
Adding color to your words
Changing text case
Undoing text formatting
Exploring the Font dialog box
Just as your body is composed of millions of cells, documents are composed of thousands of characters. Like a cell, a character is the basic building block of the document. Characters include letters, symbols, and Aunt Eunice, who claims to talk with squirrels and even knits sweaters for them.
The most basic element you can format in a document is text — the letters, numbers, and characters you type. You can format text to be bold, underlined, italicized, ...
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