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Tuesday, April 18, 2017

How to format i.e bold, italicize, underline change case etc of your document

To Change the size of text

  1. Select the text you want to change.
  2. On the Formatting toolbar, type or click a point size in the Font Size box. For example, type 10.5.

To Change the font

  1. Select the text you want to change.
  2. On the Formatting toolbar, click a font name in the Font box


To Apply italic formatting

  1. Select the text you want to change.
  2. On the Formatting toolbar, click Italic.

To Apply bold formatting

  1. Select the text you want to change.
  2. On the Formatting toolbar, click Bold.

To Underline text

Do one of the following:
Add a basic underline
  1. Select the text you want to change.
  2. On the Formatting toolbar, click Underline.

Add a decorative underline
  1. Select the text you want to change.
  2. On the Format menu, click Font, and then click the Font tab.
  3. In the Underline style list, click the style you want.
  4. In the Underline color list, click the color you want.

To Add a line

Do one of the following:
Add a line above or below text
  1. Select the text that you want to appear within the lines.
  2. On the Format menu, click Borders and Shading, and then click the Borders tab.
  3. Select the border style, width, and color options that you want.
  4. Under Preview, click above and/or below the text shown in the diagram.
To Insert a decorative line
This line is frequently used for Web pages, but you can insert it into a document as well.
  1. Click where you want to insert the line.
  2. On the Format menu, click Borders and Shading.
  3. Click Horizontal Line.
  4. Click the line that you want to insert.

Draw a line
  1. On the Drawing toolbar, click AutoShapes, point to Lines, and then click the line style you want.
  2. In the document, click and drag to draw the line.
o        To constrain the line to draw at 15-degree angles from its starting point, hold down SHIFT as you drag.
o        To lengthen the line in opposite directions from the first end point, hold down CTRL as you drag.
If you just want to draw a straight line, click Line on the Drawing toolbar.

To Capitalize text

You can capitalize letters by changing their case, by applying small capital (small caps: A format that makes lowercase text appear as capital letters in a reduced font size. Small caps formatting does not affect numbers, punctuation, nonalphabetic characters, or uppercase letters.) or all capital formatting, or by creating a large letter at the beginning of a paragraph. Choose one of the following:
  1. Select the text you want to change.
  2. On the Format menu, click Change Case.
  3. Click the capitalization option you want.

  1. Select the text you want to format.
  2. On the Format menu, click Font, and then click the Font tab.
  3. Select the Small caps or All caps check box.

  1. Click the paragraph that you want to begin with a "drop cap," a large dropped initial capital letter.
The paragraph must contain text.
  1. On the Format menu, click Drop Cap.
  2. Click Dropped or In margin.
  3. Select any other options you want.

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