Chapter 10

Character Formatting

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Applying a text format

Bullet Setting basic text formats

Bullet Selecting a font

Bullet Changing the text size

Bullet Adding color to your words

Bullet Changing the text case

Bullet Removing text formatting

Bullet Exploring the Font dialog box

At the atomic level, the most basic element you can format in a document is text — letters, numbers, and characters. You can format text to be bold, underlined, italicized, small or large, in different fonts or colors, and with all sorts of pretty and distracting attributes. Word gives you a magnificent amount of control over the appearance of your text.

For an in-depth examination of fonts, typefaces, and character formatting in Word, refer to ...

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