Ms Word Lesson 13

Setting Text Fonts and Size in Word

Microsoft word allows you to use different fonts with different size. You can change your document's appearance by changing the fonts and their size. Usually you use different fonts for paragraphs and headings. So it is important to learn how to use different fonts. This chapter will teach you how to change a font and its size using simple steps.

Change the Font Type & Size:

Let me give a brief idea about font buttons which we are going to use in this tutorial. Here is a screen capture to show you few font related buttons.

Step (1): Select the text that you want to change to a different font and click Home tab. Now click Font Type button to list down all the fonts available as shown below.

Step (2): Try to move mouse pointer over different fonts listed. You will see that text font changes when you move mouse pointer over different fonts. You can use Font Scroll Bar to display more fonts available. Finally select a desired font by clicking over the font name in the list. I selected MV Boli for my sample text.

Step (3): Similar way, to change the font size, click over the Font Size button which will display a font size list. You will use same procedure to select a desired font size what you have used while selecting a font type.

Use Shrink and Grow Buttons:

You can use a quick way to reduce or enlarge the font size. As shown in first screen capture, Shrink Font button can be used to reduce the font size whereas Grow Font button can be used to enlarge font size.

Try to click either of these two buttons and you will see the effect. You can click a single button multiple times to apply the effect. Each time you click either of the buttons, it will enlarge or reduce the font size by 1 point.

Clear Formatting Options:

All of the setting can be reset to the plain text, or the default formatting. To reset text to default settings:

Step (1): Select the text that you want to reset.

Step (2): Click Clear Formatting button in the Home tab Font group, or simply use Ctrl + SPACEBAR.

Text Decoration in Word

This chapter will teach you how to decorate your text in Microsoft word 2010. When I'm saying decorate, it means decorate by making it in italic shape, underlining the text or making it bold to look more fancy. Finally we will see how we can strikethrough a text.

Making text bold:

A bold text appears with heavy weight and dark ink and we use bold text to give more emphasis on the sentence. This is very simple to change selected text into bold font by following two simple steps:

Step (1): Select the text that you want to change to a bold font. You can use any of the text selection method to select the text.

Step (2): Click Font Bold [ B ] button in the Home tab Font group, or simply use Ctrl + B keys to make selected text bold.

Making text Italic:

An italic text appears with a small inclination and we use italicized text to differentiate to differentiate it from other text. This is very simple to change selected text into italic font by following two simple steps:

Step (1): Select the text that you want to change to a bold font. You can use any of the text selection method to select the text.

Step (2): Click Font Italic [ I ] button in the Home tab Font group, or simply use Ctrl + I keys to convert text in italic font.

Underline the Text:

An underlined text appears with an underline and we use underlined text to make it more distinguished from other text. This is very simple to change selected text into underlined font by following two simple steps:

Step (1): Select the text that you want to change to a bold font. You can use any of the text selection method to select the text.

Step (2): Click Font Underline [ U ] button in the Home tab Font group, or simply use Ctrl + U keys to put an underline under the text.

Strikethrough the Text:

Strikethrough text will look like a line has been drawn through its middle. A strikethrough text indicates that it has been deleted and not any more required. This is very simple to change selected text into strikethrough font by following two simple steps:

Step (1): Select the text that you want to change to a bold font. You can use any of the text selection method to select the text.

Step (2): Click Font Strikethrough [ abc ] button in the Home tab Font group to put a line in the middle of the text which is called strikethrough the text.