Microsoft Word Essentials – Text Formatting

Microsoft Word offers various tools to format text effectively, making your documents clear and visually appealing. Here’s an overview of font styles and paragraph formatting.

Font Styles

In the Home tab, you can easily change font styles:

• Change Font Style: Select the text to modify and choose a different font from the dropdown menu in the Font group.

• Adjust Font Size: Highlight your text and select a size from the dropdown. You can also use shortcuts:
  • Increase Font Size: Ctrl + Shift + >
  • Decrease Font Size: Ctrl + Shift + <

• Change Font Color: Select the text and click the font color button (an ‘A’ with a color bar) to pick a new color.

• Highlighting Text: Use these shortcuts to highlight your text:
  • Bold: Ctrl + B
  • Italics: Ctrl + I
  • Underline: Ctrl + U

Improve Your Typing Speed

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog; is an English-language pangram – a sentence that contains all the letters of the alphabet. The phrase is commonly used for touch-typing practice, testing typewriters and computer keyboards, displaying examples of fonts, and other applications involving text where the use of all letters in the alphabet is desired.

• In a new file, write the below text 10 times.

                                  The “quick” brown fox jumps over the lazy ‘dog’

Exercise. Write the below text in font – “Time New Roman” and font size 20. Make it Bold.

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Exercise. Write the below text in all UPPER case letters, use Font Time New Roman, size 16. Make it Bold

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Exercise. Write the below text as shown. Underline and strikeout some words, use Font Calibri, size 11.

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