Changing Fonts, Font Styles, and Point Sizes | Faster Smarter Microsoft Office System -- 2003 Edition

The font you choose for your document plays a major role in how well your document is received. Most traditional business documents use fonts similar to Times Roman; many documents displayed on the Web use Arial or Verdana. In addition to these commonly- used fonts, you have dozens of different fonts from which to choose. Some are fancy, some are plain, and some contain symbols instead of alphanumeric characters .

Lingo

A font is the term used to refer to typeface in one particular size and style. Times Roman, 12-point bold text is an example of one font; Arial 10-point normal is another.

You can use the tools on the Formatting toolbar to change the font style and size quickly. Here s how:

Change a font To change the font of existing text, select the text and click the Font down arrow in the Formatting toolbar. Choose the font you want from the displayed list.
Change font size Select the text you want to resize and click the Font Size down arrow. Click your choice.
Change font style To boldface, italicize, or underline existing text, select the text and then click the Bold, Italic, or Underline tool in the Formatting toolbar.

More Changes in the Font Dialog Box

Although the Formatting toolbar contains most of the tools you need for common formatting operations, you may also want to change font color or apply other font styles, such as super- or subscript, strikethrough , embossed , outline, or small or large caps. You can display the Font dialog box two different ways:

Choose Font from the Formatting menu.
Right-click selected text and choose Font.

You can select the font, size, color, and style as needed; then click OK to apply the settings to selected text.

Aha! ”Adding Fonts

You can easily add new fonts to the Office System and make them available to all the programs in the system. You ll find many font companies online (one I particularly like is Fonts.com). You can purchase and download fonts from the Web or arrange to have a CD sent to you ”either way, the font manufacturer provides simple instructions on how to install the fonts in Windows XP and make them available to all your Office System applications.