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FORMATTING IN WORD PROCESSOR                                                     4









                 Changing the appearance of a text or document to make it more prominent and attractive as per
                 the user’s requirement is referred as Formatting. It also refers to making changes in the layout of a
                 document by organizing its style of display. It includes character formatting, paragraph formatting,
                 page formatting, etc. Appearance of characters in different styles can be applied with different
                 styles of fonts.
                   CHARACTER FORMATTING

                 Character  Formatting includes manipulation of size, style, colour, position and  attributes of a
                 character. To format a character:
                 Step 1:  Select the character, word or block of text which is to be formatted.

                 Step 2:  Select the ‘Character’ option from the  ‘Format’  menu.

                                                                                                    Font Style/
                 Font List                                                                         Typeface List
                                                                                                    Font Size


























                 Select the formatting options as required, in the following ways:

                 To Change the Font Type:
                   Select the desired ‘Font’ from the font list in the character dialog box.

                 To Change the Font Style:
                   Select the desired ‘Typeface’ from the typeface list (Select Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic) as
                   required from the formatting toolbar.



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