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FORMATTING WORD PROCESSING DOCUMENT
INTRODUCTIONFormatting a word document refers to changing the appearance of the text on the screen.
The appearance of the text can refer to any of the following:
Font size
Font style
Font color
Font weight
Underline
Alignment, etc
CHANGING FONT APPEARANCEApplying simple formatting to text, such font-style, font-size and color, is achieved easily by the following:
Select/highlight the relevant text to be formatted.
In the home tab, and in the font group, select;
the desired font face from the font style box,
The appropriate font-size from the font-size drop down box
The desired colour from the font-colour button or drop-down arrow.
Font name box
Font colour button
Font size box
APPLY BOLD, ITALIC AND UNDERLINE
To apply bold, italic and underline formatting to text, do the following:
Select/highlight the relevant text to be formatted.
In the home tab, and in the font group, select;
the bold button to apply
the italic button to apply
the underline button to apply
TEXT ALIGNMENTYou can center the text on the page, by doing the following: 1. Select the relevant text.
2. In the home tab and paragraph group;
Click the “center-align” button to align selected text to the center
Click the “right align” button to align selected text to the right
Click the “left-align button” to align selected text to the left
Click the “justify button” to justify text
TEXT SPACINGTo change the spacing of text in your document, you simply
1. Select the text, or place the insertion point in the paragraph of text you want the spacing to apply to
2. Do the following:
In the paragraph group on the home tab, click the drop-down arrow on the “line and spacing button” to bring out the line spacing commands.
Select the line option spacing you want to apply to the selected text.
SUMMARY In this lesson, we looked at formatting in word
processing using formatting tools Some of the formatting styles to apply to word
documents are Changing font appearance (font style, size, color, weight, etc)
applying formatting effects to text (bold, italic, underline, etc)
Text alignment (left, right, center, justify)
Text spacing (single, 1.5, double, multiple)