Overview

The font refers to the shape of a set of characters. Common fonts include Times New Roman, Arial. To make changes to the font, the text must first be. Click here to review how to select text.

See also fonts in desktop publishing.

Regular or Bold - Italics and Underline

To apply or remove bold, italic or underline to text:

• select the text

• either click on the toolbar icon or use the keyboard shortcuts shown below

Feature	Toolbar Icon	Keyboard Shortcut
Bold		Ctrl + B
Italic		Ctrl + I
Underline		Ctrl + U

Changing font type

The number of fonts available can vary from computer to computer.

To change text to a different font

• select the text

• using the font drop down box

• use the scroll bar to locate a font

• left mouse click on the font to apply it to the text

HINT

to move quickly to a font:

• in the font type box
  • click the down arrow
  • type the first letters of the font name to move to the font

Changing font size

To change font size:

• select the text
• click the down arrow next to the font size box
• select the font size from the drop down list as shown to the right

HINT

if the font size you need is not included in the list e.g. size 500 (for signs)

• type the number of the font directly into the font size box and press the Enter key.
  

Changing font colour

To change the colour of the font:

• select the text

• Either
  • from the toolbar click the down arrow on the icon OR

   

  • from the Format menu select Font

• click on the down arrow on the down arrow to select a colour

• click on More Colors to view further colour choices as shown to the right

• select the colour and click the OK button if required

Other Effects

Microsoft Word allows other effects to be applied to selected text. The following picture shows the result of applying the effects to some text.

Exercise

Download and save the Microsoft Word file FontFormat.doc and make the changes.
It may be worthwhile reviewing methods for selecting text.