Formatting with Word

Formatting is a way to inject your style into the documents you create. Whether it’s a newsletter for your college football fan club, or a white paper for your For­tune 500 business, formatting lets you transform that boring 12-point Times into something bold (pun intended) and exciting.

Word has independent formatting controls for each of four entities: characters (individual letters and words), paragraphs (anything you've typed that's followed by a press of the Return key), sections (similar to chapters, as described on "Insert­ing and Removing Section Breaks), and the entire document. Attributes like bold and italic are character formatting; line spacing and centering are paragraph attributes; page numbering is done on a section-by-section basis; and margin set­tings are considered document settings. Understanding these distinctions will help you know where to look to achieve a certain desired effect.

The Formatting Palette

The Toolbox, which is the envy of Windows fan the world over, puts Word's most commonly used tools and essential formatting commands within easy reach, including the popular Formatting Palette. If it's been hidden, reveal it by choosing View -» Formatting Palette or click the Toolbox button on the Stan­dard toolbar and click its Formatting Palette button. Both methods alternately hide and show the Toolbox.

The options on the Formatting Palette change depending on what you're doing. When you click a photo or drawing, for example, the palette changes to show the tools you need to work with graphics. Most of the time, however, the Formatting Palette displays the commands you most frequently need to work with fonts, para­graph formatting, and other elements of text.

Character Formatting

The Font panel of the Formatting Palette—the uppermost pane of the palette— deals mostly with the appearance of your letters, numbers, and other characters. You can also access most of these functions via the Formatting toolbar (choose View a Toolbars a Formatting if you don't see it).

There are several other things also could be done in the MS office word such as changing the font style, color, font size, font bold, font Italic style, Underlining, highlighting, align left, right centre and justify , numbering, increasing and decreasing indent, line spacing and lots more.

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