Fonts, Bold, Italic, and Other Text Enhancements

Word offers a wide range of character formats, such as fonts, font sizes, bold, italic, all caps, superscript, kerning, color, and so on. If you’re writing a document that will be read online, you can even use animated text effects.

For the quickest and easiest way to apply fonts, font sizes, bold, italic, and underlining, use the toolbar buttons. For more information, see Change the Appearance of Text.

Want to change your day-to-day font?   Click Font (Format menu), select your favorite font, click Default, and then click Yes. (Default fonts are stored in each individual template, so the default can be different for each template.) How do you change character spacing?   If you want to fine-tune the horizontal or vertical spacing of text, click Font. On the Character Spacing tab, use the Scale, Spacing, Position, and Kerning options. Quickly change capitalization   You can change text to UPPERCASE or Title Case, for example. Select the text, and then click Change Case (Format menu), or hold down SHIFT and press F3.

Create a Drop Cap

To start any paragraph with a large, decorative letter, click in the paragraph and then click Drop Cap (Format menu).

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Want to know more?   Look up Getting Results - Look of Document in Help.