Hour 6. Formatting Characters

Changing the appearance of characters is one of the parts of word processing that most people enjoy ”even stodgy workaholics and high-octane business managers. The formatting that you can apply to individual characters ”fonts, font sizes, bold, italic, underline, and so on ”is referred to as font formatting or character formatting . You can apply font formatting to as little as one character, or as much as an entire document. In this hour, you learn how to apply a wide range of font-formatting techniques, and then you find out about a few more tricks for handling this type of formatting in your documents.

The highlights of this hour include

Using other fonts and changing the font size
Applying boldface, italic, and underline
Changing font color
Adjusting character spacing
Applying text effects
Choosing a different default font
Copying and removing font formatting