How do you Format text and Paragraph in Ms Word ?

Formatting tool bar contains a number of text formatting buttons this tools helps your text to make style changes by clicking buttons to change the appearance of character.

First select them then click the appropriate button on the formatting tool bar. In MS word we have different styles are called fonts in computer language.

We have three basic font style there are bold, italic and underline.

Bold means thick font, italic means bending font and underline means underlining the word.

For applying above font style

First highlight the matter and click on icons respectively.

Changing the font: - 

Changing the font just like selecting different handwriting, first highlight the matter you want to change the font then select the font by clicking on Times new roman box

If we click on down arrow of the font box we will get different types of fonts.

If you select one font and click then the matter will be changed into that font. This font is available on formatting tool bar

Alignment : - 

Alignment means change the position of paragraphs to the left, right or middle in the page depending upon the requirement of the user.

In the formatting tool bar special left align, right align, centre or folly justified text respectively alternate way is go to Format > Paragraph > Alignment

1. First highlight the information to which you want to apply alignment.

2. The click on any of the four icons.

3. The matter will then the adjusted into that direction.

Changing the font size:- 

In order to change the font size first select the matter then select a point size from

In the formatting tool bar click on  

We will get different size of font select a font size and click on enter button the selected matter will converted into that size.

Line spacing :- 

We change the space between line and space before and after paragraphs.

1. Single line space is default spacing to apply it select paragraph and press ctrl + L or choose single line paragraph in dialogue box the spacing menu.

2. To apply double spacing press ctrl + 2 or choose double in the paragraph dialogue boxes line spacing.

Margins:- 

The white space around the edges of icons page determined per primarily margins.

Changing document margins: -

Choose margins with in the page setup dialogue

1. Place the insertion point on the page where you want margin setting to be changed

2. Choose file > page setup

3. Switch to the margins if it is not already displayed

4. Type the dimensions you decide or click the title triangles to increase or decrease settings.

5. When satisfy click ok.

Borders  and shading :- 

You can apply various borders and shading paragraph or group of paragraphs we can also put border around paragraphs.

Creating line with the border command:-

Format > Borders and shading can be used to create lines as well as boxes.

The border tool box:- We can quickly apply borders by using the border tool bar

1. Place the insertion point at the paragraph of your interest (or ) select elements to be formatted.

2. Click the borders button on the formatting tool bar

3. In the borders tool bar choose the desired line thickness from its drop down list.

4. Click on the button corresponding to the desired border

Shading : - 

You can add shading to paragraphs with or without border.

1. Place the insertion point in the paragraph of your interest (or) select elements to be shades

2. Open the paragraphs borders and shading dialogue box with the format > borders and shading command

3. Click on the shading tab

4. Scroll through the shading list and select the percentage

5. We will see the effects of your work in the preview box

6. Click ok